How much does kitchen wrapping cost vs a new kitchen in Northern Ireland?

Most people who message us have already been through the fun part of pricing a new kitchen — picking doors and worktops in a showroom — and the less fun part: the quote. A full kitchen replacement in Northern Ireland commonly lands somewhere between £6,000 and £15,000 once you add cabinets, worktops, fitting, plumbing adjustments, electrics, a skip and the inevitable couple of weeks eating takeaways in the living room. A high-spec or layout-changing build can go well beyond that.

Wrapping takes a different route. If your cabinet carcasses are sound — which, in our experience, most are — there's no structural reason to throw them out. You keep the boxes, hinges and layout, and we change the finish on the doors, drawer fronts and worktop surface. You're paying for surface area and a finish, not for ripping out a kitchen and buying a new one.

What actually sets the price of a wrap

• The number of doors and drawer fronts — the biggest driver.
• Linear metres of worktop to be wrapped.
• Your finish choice — standard colours cost less than premium woodgrain, metal, concrete or stone-effect vinyl.
• Whether doors are wrapped in place or removed and prepped off-site.

As a rough guide, a typical kitchen wrap comes in at a fraction of a full replacement — often around a quarter to a third of the cost of a like-for-like new kitchen, for a visual upgrade that reads the same to anyone walking into the room. We deliberately don't publish a fixed price list, because two kitchens with the same number of doors can take very different amounts of work. Every job is quoted from your photos or a quick visit, with one fixed number — no vague ranges that creep up later.

When wrapping isn't the right call

We'll say it plainly: if your cabinet carcasses are swollen from water damage, if you want to change the kitchen's layout, or if the units are genuinely falling apart, wrapping is a waste of your money. In those cases a new kitchen — or new carcasses at least — is the honest answer, and we'll tell you that before you pay us a penny.

For everything else — kitchens that are structurally fine but visually stuck a decade behind the rest of the house — wrapping is the fastest, cleanest and most cost-effective route to a kitchen that looks current. Send us a few photos and we'll come back with a fixed quote and honest advice on which category your kitchen falls into.