Help with kitchen please!

[marapournumber4]

Hi. If I post some pics could people give me some ideas on how to update this kitchen on a very tight budget? All of the kitchen/ dining is the big white tiles which I really don't like as everything smashes into a 1000 pieces if you drop it ( I may lay some laminate type boards over but otherwise the tiles will stay. I can maybe get the cupboards sprayed. I have the exact oven in brand new so that has to stay. The sink is tiny and with our water pressure water being so strong it's not great.
Maybe handles, splash back, blind , a benchtop overlay? The upper cabinets replaced?
I'm at a loss

I've got a diagram!

And photos of the current finishes. No idea why my kitchen cupboards are "sensitive"?
Ta for any help!!

Whats on your splashback?

I think the floor tiles are fairly inoffensive I don't dislike them, same with the doors. however the shape is slightly dated so I wouldn't spend the money on spraying the doors.
A new light worktop would lift the kitchen in my opinion.
If you've tiles as a splashback you could have them removed and put a glass splashback behind the hob.

I think a different handle on the cupboards would make a huge difference. Those just don't look right.

How about black handles?

Oh thank you!! @Happydays321 and @Mosaic123 . Black handles sound good. I do worry that black tapware though will date but not sure. Have attached a photo of the splashback. The whole thing is so 2001 but I don't have the cash to pull it out. Appreciate the help. Yes a new worktop in a light colour would brighten it. I had a glass splash back in my last house and I loved it. I should have thought of that. Ta again. What about a rollerblind for the window rather than those verticals? Or something else? Can't be curtains as above the sink.

We have a COVID kitchen - as in we moved during the pandemic and had to make do.

it was eye opening actually as the transformative power of paint was revealed.

i replaced the countertop - white quartz. Took out the lower cabinets and replaced them with big drawers. Took out the overheads completely. Made a slim floor to ceiling « pantry » basically shelves with long doors.

Painted the walls (including the tiles and backsplash) and ceiling white, the cabinets/drawers, pantry doors hunting green. Put gold pulls from IKEA. It works REALLY well. Cost very little.

That's sounds great! I'm not sure I'm brave enough for hunting green but maybe a sage kind of colour and a white overlay on the benchtop? Sounding good. Thanks heaps

Yes! The larger point being - think it through and without a massive spend you can transform.

we figured out what HAD to work with first and then reverse engineered it, in terms of faking it!

but - think it through!

good luck.

Gold or black handlea? I'm not sure . Tapware and sink and oven and dishwasher are ss