Are hand painted kitchens worth the money?
If you want a high-class kitchen with an individual character, hand painted kitchens certainly offer that.
On the other hand, are they really worth what you’d have to pay to buy one, though?
Reasons not to buy hand painted kitchens
The biggest argument against buying hand painted kitchens is, quite simply, that they’re eye-wateringly expensive from the big names. These include Tom Howley, Harvey Jones, deVol, Clive Christian and Smallbone. If you go to one of these, you’re looking at paying a small fortune for a kitchen.
You pay for the quality of the hand pained kitchen units, but these companies are expensive on all counts. You’ll also find yourself paying over the odds for their worktops, appliances and fitting too.
The other argument against buying a hand painted kitchen is the durability of the paint finish. Hand painted kitchens are less durable than factory sprayed kitchens and more likely to chip. The reason for this is the paint used on factory sprayed kitchens contains special hardeners. It’s these hardeners that give the paint is toughness & makes it more resistant to chipping. Unfortunately, the paint used for hand painted kitchens does not contain these hardeners.
Reasons for buying hand painted kitchens
Expensive or not, there’s nothing like hand painted kitchens. They have the charm and quality of something real and handmade, like a wooden floor as against a laminate one. Factory spraying is perfect and uniform, but has no character. With hand painting, you can see the brushstrokes. Like the grain and the knots in a wooden floor, the imperfections themselves bring it to life.
The other big advantage is that the units are complete pieces of furniture. In a standard kitchen for example, of an evening when you have the under wall unit lights on, you’ll be able to see light shining through the small gap between the light baffle & the wall units. However, with a hand painted kitchen, you won’t have this problem. This is because every gap is filled before it’s painted (a process called ‘corking’).
Best places to buy hand painted kitchens from
If you want the quality and charm offered by hand painted kitchens without the price, all isn’t lost. There are a some smaller, less well known suppliers that sell them for much less than the big names.
I don’t mean they’re cheap, of course. Nevertheless, when you’re not paying a huge premium for the the name, you can find hand painted kitchens for as little as £40,000 all in from these places. In contrast, an equivalent from one of the big names is likely to cost you at least £70,000 all in.
Please note, the prices stated above include the cost of the cabinetry, granite or quartz worktops, appliances and fitting.
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