Are gloss kitchens... "cheap"

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I don't like gloss kitchens as a general rule of thumb, simply because I preference Matt colours and surfaces.

However I've found drawn to a certain colour kitchen in a gloss finish which I think only works in gloss, helps with the light and airy feel of it all.

I've been ruminating on why I dislike gloss and... this is where I'll like offend lots of people.. I think for me, it doesn't give off a 'high end' feel a (for examle) well fitted, coloured shaker kitchen does.

We don't own an expensive classy house... so it's not snobbery as such, I can't really find the words to articulate...perhaps because the displays in the lower end price bracket (Ikea.. b&q etc) feature a lot of slab gloss, lots of newbuilds and investor homes on RM always seem to have the default cream gloss unit set up.

I'm too scared to ask any friends genuine opinions and lots do own gloss kitchens so it would be breathtakingly rude. So i'm anonymously putting it to MN and be well prepped for a flaming.

After twenty years slaving over a grooved, grease, crumb collecting, I am happy to live in a house with a slatterns kitchen. Gloss all the way, we do not even have tiles, they put up that backing stuff that is shiny and wipeable. Bliss..... I have to agree that light colours must be better. My friend had a magnificent dark blue gloss kitchen which she admitted was a nightmare to keep clean looking. My other friend spends her life wiping black granite worktops, with three children it needs wiping every time anyone touches it.

@maidmarian80 thank you it's from howdens and the worktop is quartz

I had a cream gloss in our last house, and we now have matt grey. I loved both inthe houses they were in, but the gloss was actually easier to keep clean. Fingerprints seem harder to get off the matt surface, whereas they easily wiped off the gloss.

I feel like I must be missing something, but our wooden worktops aren't bad to maintain at all. We painted them with Osmo oil and can touch up any bits that need a going over without re-sanding. All waterproof and wipe clean too.

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