A new-looking kitchen. Without a new kitchen.

What is kitchen wrapping?

The kitchen you have. The look you want.

A kitchen that's structurally fine but looks tired is one of the most common calls Velfi gets in Cambridge. The units are solid, the layout works, but the doors have dated and the worktop has seen better days. A full replacement means a stripped-out kitchen, a skip on the drive and weeks of takeaways before it's usable again, on top of a bill that runs into five figures.

Kitchen wrapping, sometimes called vinyl wrapping, kitchen door wrapping or simply a kitchen facelift, solves that without any of it. Professional architectural film resurfaces the existing structure of your kitchen. The carcasses, the hinges, the mechanism all stay exactly where they are. Only the visible surfaces change.

Wrapping the cabinet doors and drawer fronts is the most transformative single change you can make to a kitchen. New colour, new finish, new feel in a day. Worktops and splashbacks can be wrapped in the same visit. The result, at normal viewing distance, is indistinguishable from a brand new kitchen fitted in the same finish.

The film used is commercial-grade architectural film from brands like 3M DI-NOC, LX Hausys BENIF and Cover Styl. Products rated for kitchen environments. Heat-resistant adjacent to ovens. Waterproof. Scratch-resistant. Cleanable with standard kitchen products. Not the vinyl from a DIY shop. A different class of product with a durability record that justifies a 10-year warranty.

Most Cambridge kitchen wrapping projects take 1 to 3 days. Your kitchen stays usable at the end of every working day. No demolition, no skips, no dust sheets through the house for weeks. The job finishes and the kitchen is done.

The cost is 60 to 70% less than a full kitchen replacement. A mid-size Cambridge kitchen typically costs £1,400 to £2,200 to wrap. The same kitchen replaced would cost £10,000 to £18,000. Both deliver a modern, fresh kitchen. The financial case for wrapping is simple.