He Spray Painted the Oak Cabinets Stiffkey Blue and They Look Like a Different Kitchen
Oak cabinets filled this kitchen from the appliance wall to the sink, paired with black worktops, a dark floor, and silver handles. Instead of removing the cabinetry, the doors and frames were prepared for a spray finish as part of a makeover shared by Instagram creator @themobilespray.
Farrow & Ball Stiffkey Blue now covers the same cabinets in a matte finish, while pale gold handles, light marble-look worktops, and wood-look flooring replace several of the darker finishes around them. Much of the cabinet configuration remains recognizable in the finished kitchen, including the appliance bank, wine rack, sink run, and curved peninsula.
Oak Cabinets Filled Most of the Original Kitchen
Oak Shaker-style cabinets ran beneath the windows and across the main work area, with another bank of cabinetry positioned on the opposite side of the room. Black worktops continued across the cabinet runs and around the black sink.
Dark flooring covered the open area between the cabinets, creating another large dark surface beneath the wood. Skylights and two sets of exterior windows brought daylight into the room, but most of the finishes below counter height remained brown or black.
Cabinetry continued around the cooktop, corner, and sink without major gaps in the storage. Upper cabinets flanked the stainless-steel hood, while drawers and base cabinets occupied most of the space below the worktops.
Existing wine storage at the end of the cooktop run was also built into the cabinetry, a feature retained through the makeover rather than removed.
Appliance Cabinetry Stayed in Place
Tall oak cabinetry surrounded the microwave and double oven in a recessed section beside the main kitchen. Full-height storage occupied the left side, with smaller drawers and cabinets filling the spaces above and below the appliances.
Replacing this entire bank would have meant removing cabinetry already fitted around the appliances. The makeover kept its configuration and changed the surfaces around the stainless-steel units instead.
Cabinet Boxes Were Masked for the Respray
Doors and drawer fronts were removed while plastic and masking material covered cabinet openings, work surfaces, appliances, and sections that needed protection. Floor paper covered the dark flooring across the work zone.
With the doors removed, the original oak cabinet frames remained visible around several openings. Those fixed sections were prepared along with the detached fronts so the new finish could continue across the full cabinet run.
Masking extended to the opposite side of the kitchen, including the long bank of cabinets and curved peninsula. Plastic covered the worktops and cabinet interiors while paper protected the floor from overspray.
Keeping the cabinetry in place also preserved details that already fit the room, including the curved end unit and storage arranged around the existing openings.
Sanding Removed the Existing Finish From the Oak Doors
Rows of detached doors show the preparation required before spraying. Sanding cut through the existing finish and left the oak much paler, with the grain and Shaker-style frames still visible.
The project also involved repositioning the handle holes before the new hardware was fitted. That allowed longer pale gold handles to replace the original silver pulls without changing the doors themselves.
Stiffkey Blue Covered the Existing Door Profiles
Farrow & Ball Stiffkey Blue replaced the exposed oak with a deep blue finish across the detached doors. Spray application covered the recessed panels, rails, stiles, and edges while keeping the original door profiles intact.
Matte paint reduced the contrast between the different pieces of oak grain, turning rows of separate wood fronts into one consistent cabinet finish.
Pale Worktops Changed the Contrast Around the Blue Cabinets
Once reassembled, Stiffkey Blue covers the upper cabinets, base cabinets, appliance surround, and wine storage. Pale gold bar handles replace the silver hardware and stand out against the dark blue doors.
Light marble-look worktops now run around the cooktop and sink, replacing the black surfaces seen before the work began. Wood-look flooring also replaces the dark mottled floor, shifting two of the kitchen’s largest surfaces to lighter finishes.
Curved Cabinetry Became Part of the New Blue Finish
One of the existing cabinet runs ends in a curved peninsula that projects into the adjoining space. Painting its doors, side panels, and plinth Stiffkey Blue ties the rounded section to the straight cabinets along the wall.
Marble-look worktops continue across the peninsula and follow its curved edge, while pale gold handles repeat the hardware used across the rest of the kitchen.
Existing Appliances Still Fit the New Cabinet Color
Microwave and double oven remain stacked in their original positions, but Stiffkey Blue now surrounds the stainless-steel appliances instead of oak. Pale gold handles replace the wide silver pulls on the surrounding doors and drawers.
Keeping the appliances and cabinet configuration makes the finish changes easier to compare. Cabinet color, hardware, worktops, and flooring account for much of what separates this view from the original kitchen.
Blue Now Connects Each Cabinet Run
Wide views show Stiffkey Blue extending from the tall appliance cabinetry across the cooktop wall and around the sink. Instead of several large areas of oak competing with black worktops and dark flooring, one blue finish connects cabinets positioned across different parts of the room.
Skylights, windows, white walls, and the pale worktops keep lighter surfaces above the new wood-look floor, while the blue cabinetry forms the darkest continuous finish.
From the entrance, the original layout remains easy to recognize. Appliance cabinetry still occupies the recessed wall, the cooktop remains beneath the stainless-steel hood, the sink stays below the window, and the wine rack remains at the end of the cabinet run.
Changing those existing cabinets rather than replacing them allowed the fitted storage to stay while Stiffkey Blue changed how the entire arrangement reads.
Before and After Shows What Stayed
Side-by-side views of the appliance wall show the same microwave, double oven, tall storage, upper drawers, and lower drawer in both versions. Oak fronts and silver handles on one side become Stiffkey Blue fronts with pale gold hardware on the other.
Flooring also changes beneath the cabinetry, replacing the dark mottled surface with wood-look planks that bring a lighter brown tone back into the room after the oak cabinets were painted.
Another comparison captures the main work area before and after the respray. Cabinet placement around the cooktop and sink remains close to the original configuration, while Stiffkey Blue replaces the oak across both upper and lower cabinets.
Black worktops and dark flooring disappear at the same time, replaced by pale marble-look surfaces and wood-look flooring. Combined with the blue paint and pale gold handles, those changes make the retained oak cabinetry look like part of a different kitchen.
All credits go to Instagram creator @themobilespray.
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