Kitchen cupboard doors - update on a budget

[Fancythat99]

Hello All,
I'd really appreciate some feedback, particularly from somebody who has successfully done this...
We have a holiday home that we use fairly often and sometimes rent out.
Some of the pvc covering the kitchen doors has started to come away from the frames, whilst it looks OK from a distance, up close, it looks in rather bad repair.

As this is a second home, I really don't want to put in a complete new kitchen, especially since this is really just a cosmetic issue.
So, it is going to be difficult to match up the doors exactly with the originals as it is 15 years old. To keep costs down, we want to keep the original cream kickboards, dado rail (the bit at the top) and end panels, and are thinking of going for a contrasting colour for the doors (grey, duck-egg blue or sage green) and a butcher block effect worktop.
Do you think this would work?
Here is a photo of the current kitchen.
Thanks!

We did this when we had one door catch fire fail. We measured our doors to the mm then went round kitchen places with a tape measure until we found identical sized doors.

I'm not sure about the cream cornicing unless you match it in with worktop or some other cream in the room. Try it. If it looks odd you could try colour matched paint perhaps.

you have vinyl-wrap doors, which is a plastic film shrunk onto MDF.

It's a pretty bad material. It usually peels off round the kettle, toaster, cooker and dishwasher, but I have seen it peeling in a showroom. Children sometimes peel it off.

The most durable doors are laminated, with a factory coating like a laminate worktop. It is much much harder wearing than foil, but also more durable than solid wood or painted doors. They do not stand up to being literally wet, after a flood or burst pipe, because the chipboard core is damaged. They are always flat "slab" doors because they are cut from factory-laminated sheets. You can get them from some of the budget online suppliers. If you look up "Egger Board" you will see the range of finishes available (other makes exist) and you will soon recognise the names and appearance. Ask for them to have laminated edges, IIRC you can get them with 2mm edges, which is very durable. I've had some shelves and other panels made up like that, in a woodgrain laminate to blend in with wooden doors, and they are very durable.

I think what you've planned sounds fab - pale grey or blue with a butcher block style worktop works really well. Personally I wouldn't be sure about keeping the cream kickboards and end panels if the doors are going to be a different colour, but that's only personal preference.

We replaced our kitchen doors about a year or so ago, and used a company called Kitchen Door Workshop. They have a really great range of colours and I think sell end panels and rails and all the extra bits. Good service too. Perhaps worth a look?

Thanks for the feedback - not sure I'm brave enough to try out the two-tone look, so will probably get the kickboards etc replaced too.