Surrey · KT11
Cobham kitchens tend to be generous: wide islands, tall larder runs, a utility and boot room alongside, and a great deal of cabinetry to get right. Much of my work here is repainting kitchens that were beautifully made five or ten years ago and now want a different colour rather than replacing.
Kitchens in Cobham
The typical Cobham kitchen is a large in-frame or shaker installation in a house that has already been finished to a high standard — often with a separate utility, pantry and boot room in the same paint scheme. Doors are usually solid timber or MDF with a factory-sprayed original finish, which needs proper keying and priming before anything else will hold.
Because these kitchens are the heart of a busy family house, the job has to be planned around real life. I take doors and drawer fronts off and finish them properly, work the frames in place, and keep the room usable — sink, oven and fridge available every evening.
A good deal of Cobham work is a phased repaint — the kitchen this spring, the boot room and utility later in the year — done discreetly and matched exactly to what is already there.
Typical work in Cobham
Covering around Cobham
How it’s done
Every kitchen in Cobham goes through the same eight-stage process. These four are the ones that quietly get dropped on a cheap job — and they are the reason a properly hand-painted kitchen is still sound in ten years.
Years of airborne cooking grease washed off before anything else — skip it and the primer never really bonds.
Every face, edge and moulding abraded by hand so the primer has something to grip.
Chosen for the actual substrate — high-adhesion over sealed factory finishes, stain-block over oak and knotty timber.
Brushed thin, laid off along the grain, de-nibbed between coats.
Recent work
Guide costs
Quoted individually after a visit — door count, condition and colour all move the figure. These bands are a starting point, not a headline price.
Questions
Yes — most Cobham kitchens I repaint started life factory-sprayed. The existing finish is degreased, thoroughly keyed by hand and given an adhesion primer suited to the substrate, then built up in hard-wearing topcoats. Prepared that way, a hand-applied finish bonds properly and lasts.
Yes, and in Cobham it is more often than not part of the job. Matching a utility, pantry or boot room to the kitchen is straightforward when it runs as one project, and the colour is mixed from the same batch so there is no drift between rooms. It can also be phased across the year if you would rather spread it.
Properly degreased, keyed, primed and finished, a hand-painted kitchen should look right for a good ten years or more in normal family use. The areas that wear first are always the same — around handles, the edges of the most-used drawer fronts and the ends of an island — and those can be touched in without redoing the whole kitchen.
I’ll come and look at the cabinetry properly, tell you honestly whether painting is the right answer, and follow up with a clear written estimate.
