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Posted: 14 Aug 2013 09:57 AM PDT

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This hand painted kitchen in Hale wins the title of “Best kitchen Rescue 2013″. Jason Walker, Traditional painter for Cheshire, had a challenge and a half to make a silk purse from a pig’s ear of a previous paint job.

No problem too hard to solve?

The kitchen looks like this now

but it wasn’t always so.

This kitchen had been hand painted a few times already over the years. I was told that the coating was scratching off with their finger nails. Sounded bad, but not one to give up on a job, I went and looked.

The kitchen was a nice looking one, but as for the paint, it was dreadful, and who ever had done it, quite clearly didn’t do any prep work at all. I knew that to get this kitchen up to my standard, it would require a complete strip down to a sound base for painting. This would be a challenge, because I’ve never come across a kitchen this bad before.

A price was agreed and a date booked for starting.

Turn away if you are allergic to appalling paintwork

We arrived to start on the agreed date, and we set up the usual way, dealing with wall cupboards first. We needed a powerful stripping agent in the form of Tough Task Remover by Krud Kutter. It is a stronger cleaner than the original so more than effective, and it worked a treat with my Mirka Mirlon pads from Hallmark-Fraulo.

Sanding, priming, painting

We cleaned and rinsed, and rinsed and cleaned and… sanded, using the Mirka dustless system. After 2 full days of cleaning we were ready for paint.

The specification was for Otex primer, then 2 coats of Furniture Feelings in New White. The paint was mixed perfectly by Holmans, as usual. I must admit, seeing the primer going on was nice, and because of its ability to stick, I knew it wouldn’t disappoint.

Can you rescue this hearth too?

There was a fireplace in the room that stood out, but not in a good way. The surround didn’t really sit well with the fire.

I suggested changing the frame colour to improve the look. I would match the frame to the tiles and pick out the ornamented relief in a gold cream wax.

Whilst we were at it, the mirror got the similar make over, but instead of painting it black, I matched it in the same colour as the units, then waxed gold.

While you are here, can you redecorate as well?

At short notice, long story short, we redecorated the room with New White and String in Manor Coatings Vinyl Matt emulsion. I’m impressed with the Manor Coatings: coverage is brilliant and low odour, and again this was mixed by Holmans and delivered the next day.

Red Frost brushes

The woodwork in the room was to be repainted as well, this time in White Satin in Dulux. I had ordered some new Red Frost brushes from My Paint Brush.

I’d heard from colleagues including Martin Guest over in Worcestershire that they were a pretty good brush for many types of paint and I was keen to use them.

I got flat and * angled Red Frost, and wet them first before spinning them out ready for use.

They were comfortable to hold and the paint flowed out well, and I was impressed how they worked in the Dulux waterborne satin.

I’ve yet to use them in Tikkurila Feelings but I’m looking forward to seeing the results.

Back to the kitchen, painted and ready to hand back

This kitchen repaint took a lot of hard work, simply because of the state the kitchen was in before we started, but it’s had the Traditional Painter treatment and it’s up to standard now.

Matt and myself enjoyed our time in Hale and would like to thank Teresa & Peter for allowing us into their home and thanks to Bell their little dog for keeping out of the way (not).

Specialist painter and decorator, Jason Walker, is a member of the Traditional Painter UK network. He is the first port of call for hand painted kitchens from South Lakes, Preston to South Cheshire.

Jason has been hand-painting kitchens for 18 years, trading as JS Decor; and also writes regular tips for the Lancashire Magazine.

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Hand painted kitchen in Hale Cheshire