Hand painted kitchen cabinets - maintenance?

[Livingoffcoffee]

We're planning on a kitchen reno soon and planning for something like this, with painted cabinets. My FIL thinks we're being impractical and should go for the modern/glossy style as we have a young DS. I absolutely hate that style though - just not to my (or DH's) taste and why would we pay lots of money for a kitchen we don't love?

I accept that they may need to be repainted after a few years. But will painted cabinets really get ruined that quickly/easily?

This sort of thing

Get what you want. I have a kitchen almost identical to that pic and I also have small children. It's very low maintenance.

I had the high gloss in my old house and it was horrible to keep clean. Covered in hand prints and splashes.

I had a high gloss kitchen fitted last year - not because it’s trendy but because I have wanted one since I was 14!

I think it’s beautiful but it does need washed a lot. With small kids I think it would be even worse.

Get what you want. You’ll regret it otherwise.

Thanks both.
FIL really doesn't like being told he's wrong. We would've gotten the style we like no matter what - but wanted to check if I was ignoring something obvious!

Sorry but what does the kitchen you choose have to do with your FIL? Ours is hand painted and to be really honest, it does show knocks and scrapes and needs to be touched up bit I love it so accept this.

@Bluesheep8 FIL is pretty much the definition of a narcissist and has an opinion about literally everything. But that's a topic for a different thread.

livingoffcoffee I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't mean to sound flippant.

I have a hand painted wooden kitchen. It's six years old. Very low gloss/matte. Looks great. I sugar soap it about once a year and wipe over the fronts whenever.

It's very high traffic, with between 2 and 15 people using the kitchen 24 hours a day.

15 people? Wow that is high traffic! I thought mine took some hammer just with 2 of us

Yeah my DH has 2:1 24 hour care so between carers, officials, physios, district nurses etc a lot of people are using the kitchen.

We have hand painted and it's very low maintenance. Four yrs old now and like new. I'm thinking of having some of it painted in a different colour now just for a different look. Another advantage of hand painted over gloss.

You should have the kitchen you want. We have hand painted and it was part of the decision making, knowing we could/should repaint when chipped. We've had ours nearly 6 years and it does need touching up, especially around the dishwasher. Plan was to get the painters in when on a 2 week holiday though that idea's gone now, of course. Next year's project.

If you use hard wearing, cleanable paint it will be fine! We did ours about 8 years ago (cream eggshell) as it was solid pine and handmade for our wonky old kitchen so was very expensive - it would have been a crime to rip it out so we painted it. Really pleased with the result and we've only touched up bits of paint here and there since, no full repaint needed yet. Easy to wipe clean too.