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How these guides are made
A how-to site for people repainting kitchen cupboards and furniture at home, or deciding whether to pay someone else to do it.
Watch first, read second
Painting a cupboard door is easier to understand by watching than by reading. So every guide opens with a short clip, and the method underneath is split into chapters you can scan in the order you work. The clips are silent and loop. They show what a stage looks like, while the text explains why it matters and what goes wrong.
The clips and photographs
Photographs on this site are realistic illustrations made for it. The short loops are built from those stills with slow zooms and fades. Neither shows a real job, customer or company, and nothing here is presented as someone's finished work.
Some guides also include tutorials from other people's YouTube channels. Each is credited by channel name, chosen because it shows a technique clearly, and comes with notes on what to copy and what to change for UK paints and 230 V equipment. They only load when you press play.
Prices and dates
Costs shown are 2026 ranges for England. They come from published UK cost guides and sprayers' and suppliers' public price lists, checked in October and November 2026. Where sources disagreed, the range is wide on purpose. They are not quotes. Some sources include VAT and some do not, and London is usually dearer.
The three calculators
- Paint calculator: door areas times coats, divided by spread rate, plus an allowance for spray loss, then rounded up to the cheapest set of tins.
- Respray or replace: per-front price ranges with minimum charges, adjusted for door material, condition and region.
- Drying planner: typical data-sheet times at 20 °C, stretched for colder or damper rooms.
They run on your device and send nothing anywhere. The formulas are written out on each tool page and were checked against hand-worked examples. Your tin's data sheet and a written quote always win over an estimate.
What you will not find
No shop, no affiliate links, no recommended sprayer and no paid placements. The site does not offer spraying services and is not linked to any business that used this domain before. No named author writes these guides; they go out under the site name.
If something looks wrong
There is no form or inbox. Where a guide touches safety, such as lead paint or isocyanate spraying, it links to the Health and Safety Executive, and that guidance comes first.
Checked in full: November 2026.