How would you 'refresh' this 90s style kitchen?

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I can't afford to properly renew or replace the kitchen, so I've been looking at cupboard and worktop paints (and wondering about tiles...).

Can anyone suggest some nice colourways to repaint in? And do you know where to get better, less dated door handles?

Thanks for any advice and thoughts!

Can you just replace the doors? Should be a lot cheaper.

Oh gosh op those doors look exactly like mine!

I'm painted over it all, tiles, doors even work top, brought me about 5 more years and now it's beyond repair

I think that the tiles are the worst thing, but they look like they’d be a bugger to paint over.

If cupboards are OK, paint or replace doors and buy tile paint and fake grout it will looks fabulous and replace the work top, about 50 pm in ikea? Laminate... New handles.

Do you think cheaper to replace doors than paint it all? New doors would be a vast improvement.

Why tiles look bad, there is tile paint for them. I did ours and you'd never know it's paint

I think a can of paint would be cheaper if your really really pushed but if you can look at door replacement and new handles, paint tiles new work top... Massive improvement.

That sounds great lemon. Can I ask which paint you used for your worktop? Looked in Homebase today and there was one for £76 and one called Maison Deco Refresh.

The tiles are a horror- they're weirdly textured and sort of wavy edged. And ugly coloured. Would you really not know when you've used tile paint? Do you cover the grout and paint then regrout?

If you have Facebook, have a look at the frenchic fab forum you'll get loads of ideas. Frenchic is a brand of paint and can be used on tiles and doors etc.

*fan forum

Need to get someone in if I replace the worktop, which I'm hesitant to do, but maybe it's worth it in the long run. It's the nastiest fake granite, which makes the surfaces look messy even when they're empty.

There are special tile paints and primers that csn grip onto ceramic surfaces like glue.

I've heard read good things about frenchic. Will look at their colours. Maybe off white cupboards and pale green tiles? And do something with the worktop.

Thank you all for your thoughts.

Clearly I have no taste or style as I think it looks absolutely fine

Get the kitchen sprayed and then paint the tiles. The worktop will look better with more neutral tiles and cupboards

You could get it re sprayed and re coated including the worktops. Plus you could cover the tiles with that acrylic type back splash.

Why not cover the tiles with a plain splashback? You can get very cheap acrylic ones cut to size.

And yes, if you can afford to get new doors, I'd go for that. I quite like your worktop, though - I think I'd keep that!

Ooh I hadn't thought of a splashback but that sounds like a great idea. How do you fix them on? And where do you buy them? Thank you all

Op I turned mine from your colours but stinger orange etc into pale cream and light blue tiles.

It looked so much better.

You can also buy plastic that sticks onto the work top! Just remembered you can but..not the technical name for it!

Yes I painted the whole tile area and then went over with pretend grouting pen.
New handles..

You can do it!

But it's probably a few year fix with paint, depending on how much your kixthen is used.

The previous owners clearly thought so too, Genitalia, and they were lovely people, so you're in good company.

I have just painted my very similar kitchen (same cupboards, similar tiles). I used wilko cupboard paint as it was cheap but it was a bugger to apply and needed 3 coats. With hindsight I wish I'd have gone with F&B eggshell. My sister used F&B on her cupboards, she said it wasn't too bad to apply and they lasted 10yrs! Didn't find this out until afterwards though.
I also used ronseal one coat tile paint, applied very carefully with a sponge roller and fitch brush. It took 4 coats of that (not 1) but they look better than I expected. Finally, I replaced all of my cabinet and drawer handles. People genuinely thought I'd had a new kitchen.
If you go down the cabinet/tile painting route, do your research, use painters pyramids, clean every really well 2-3 times over and take your time - don't rush it or cut corners. I took me a week to do my cabinets and another 4 days to paint the tiles (one coat per day).

That sounds really a lot like I'd like, Lemon. I'd like it to look fresh and clean.

I'm heading to bed but will take a closer picture of the worktop to prove tomorrow that it's not so nice! The sticking on film sounds interesting. I'll research in the morning!

You can get stick on tiles for a quick fix?
Although personally I think it looks fine...

That's excellent advice noble. Thank you. I'm looking forward to doing It! Good advice re. which paint too- I'd looked at wilko and was tempted by the price...