A Complete New Look for Your Kitchen
A kitchen makeover in Worsbrough changes the whole look of the room while keeping your units, layout, sink and appliances, from £1,500 and in 3 to 5 working days, with a 5-year written guarantee. We respray the doors, drawer fronts, frames and end panels, then add the parts you choose: spray granite over tired worktops, sprayed tiles and splashback, new handles fitted while the doors are off, an island or dresser in a contrast colour, and the walls, ceiling and woodwork decorated to finish the room, each part priced as its own line on one fixed quote.
Semi-detached houses are the largest group around Worsbrough centre at 58%, about 3,760 households, with 14% terraced and 21% detached, so most kitchens are mid-sized L or U shapes. The figures here cover 6,545 households in the 9 neighbourhoods nearest the centre.
Worsbrough kitchen makeover at a glance
| Starting price | From £1,500 |
|---|---|
| Typical time | 3 to 5 working days |
| Guarantee | 5 years (written) |
| Worktops | Spray granite, quoted after survey |
| From our workshop | 25 miles, about 35 minutes by road |
| Finance | May be available, subject to status |
Only want the doors and frames recoloured? See kitchen respraying in Worsbrough. Weighing up a refit? Compare a makeover with a new fitted kitchen in Worsbrough, which typically costs £10,000 to £30,000 and takes four to eight weeks.
What a Makeover Changes, and What Stays
| Part of the kitchen | What we do | Time and price |
|---|---|---|
| Doors, drawers, frames, end panels | Primer, then two HVLP topcoats | The core; from £1,500 |
| Plinths, cornices and pelmets | Sprayed in the new colour | Where the kitchen has them |
| Worktops | Spray granite over existing tops | One day, then 24-hour cure |
| Tiles and splashback | Sprayed to suit the scheme | Priced after the survey |
| Handles and hardware | Swapped while doors are off | Priced after the survey |
| Walls, ceiling and woodwork | Decorated last (interior spraying in Worsbrough) | Priced after the survey |
| Islands, dressers, tables, chairs | Sprayed to match or contrast | Priced after the survey |
| Carcasses, layout, sink, appliances | Stay where they are | No strip-out or plumbing |
With 58% of Worsbrough homes semi-detached and 36% of properties built from 1945 to 1972, the usual makeover is a mid-sized respray plus one or two extras, most often the worktops and the handles.
Worktops are done with our spray granite finish in Worsbrough, which goes over laminate, tile, MDF and solid tops in place, whereas new granite or quartz has to be templated, cut and fitted, and the old top taken out, which usually means making good the walls and tiles around it as well; the coating avoids all of that, and like every extra it is priced as its own line on your quote.
Planning the Colour Scheme
Two-tone and island contrast
In a mid-sized L or U-shaped kitchen, the usual layout in the 3,760 semi-detached homes here (58%), a deeper base colour under lighter wall units grounds the room without shrinking it, and an island or peninsula is the natural place for the contrast.
Worktops, handles and splashback as one scheme
38% of properties here, about 2,670, were built before 1940, and the worktops in older houses are usually a later laminate or tiled top, both of which take spray granite well; we bring physical samples of the door colour, the stone-effect finishes and handle options so you can see them together in your own light. Handles are worth deciding at the same time: in Worsbrough, where 36% of properties date from 1945 to 1972 and 12% from 1973 to 1999, most kitchens are later refits whose handles date them, and any old fixing holes are filled before the doors are sprayed.
Finish and colour range
Satin is the most requested topcoat because it wipes clean and suits traditional and modern kitchens alike, matt is striking on deep greens and dark greys, and gloss suits handleless designs; we can match any of more than 175,000 colours across RAL, Farrow and Ball, Little Greene and Dulux Trade, or a sample you bring, using spectrophotometer matching. In a mid-sized kitchen, typical of the 3,760 or so semis in Worsbrough, satin is the safe all-round choice, with matt kept for an island or a single feature run.
How the Work Is Sequenced
- Survey, sprayed samples, fixed quote
- Room masked, doors to workshop
- Frames, panels and tiles sprayed
- Spray granite worktops, 24-hour cure
- Walls, ceiling, woodwork decorated last
- Doors refitted with new handles
- Walk-through and written guarantee
Worsbrough is 25 miles, about 35 minutes by road from our workshop, so we book the days of a makeover back to back and time the worktop coating so most of its 24-hour cure falls overnight.
Living at home during the makeover
There is no strip-out, so you avoid the weeks without a kitchen that a refit involves; the doors and drawer fronts usually go to our Sheepscar workshop for spraying, leaving the cupboards open for a few days, so it helps to empty them and clear the worktops before we start, and the one real pause is the 24 hours the worktops need after coating. Decorating comes last so nothing new gets marked, and the exact order depends on what you include.
Worsbrough Homes in Numbers, Read for a Kitchen Makeover
What the official figures say about the homes around Worsbrough centre, and what that means for a kitchen makeover.
Worsbrough at a glance
| Council | Barnsley Council |
|---|---|
| County | South Yorkshire |
| From our Leeds workshop | about 35 minutes by road (25 miles), to the south |
| Households counted | 6,545 in the 9 neighbourhoods nearest the centre |
| Owner-occupied | 59% (average across the towns we cover: 63%) |
| Privately rented | 12% (average 19%) |
Type of home
When the homes were built
What the age of Worsbrough homes means for a makeover
36% of the 6,980 properties around Worsbrough centre counted by the VOA were built between 1945 and 1972, above the 26% average across the towns we cover. Few original kitchens from that period survive, so most of those 2,540 or so houses are on a second or third kitchen, often with sound carcasses and doors or worktops in finishes that date it, which is where a makeover gives the most for the money. The next largest group, 25% or about 1,750 properties, dates from 1919 to 1939, where the kitchen has often been enlarged or knocked through. Only 14% of properties here, about 960, are post-2000, so few kitchens are untouched developer originals.
Room size, islands and scope in Worsbrough
Semi-detached houses are the biggest group at 58%, about 3,760 households, with 14% terraced and 21% detached. A typical kitchen in those 3,760 or so semis is a mid-sized L or U shape, which usually puts the respray part of a makeover in the £1,800 to £3,500 range, with worktops, handles and splashback priced on top in the same quote. The 880 or so terraced homes tend to have smaller galley kitchens nearer the £1,500 starting price.
Who lives here, and what that changes
28% of homes, about 1,870, are socially rented, and tenants of the council or a housing association need the landlord's written permission before changes to a kitchen. 59% of homes are owner-occupied, about 3,840 households, close to the 63% average across the towns we cover; owners planning to stay tend to treat a makeover as a long-term choice, and the 5-year written guarantee covers peeling, flaking and adhesion failure caused by our workmanship.
What we check first in a Worsbrough kitchen
- 1919 to 1939 properties: 25% (about 1,750), the 8th highest share of the 203 towns we cover; kitchens enlarged in stages often mix materials, so we check that every unit takes the same primer.
- 1945 to 1972 properties: 36% (about 2,540), the 22nd highest share of the 203 towns we cover; mostly later refits, so we look at the worktops and handles as closely as the doors.
- Flats: 8% (about 540), the 99th highest share of the 203 towns we cover; we plan stairs, lifts, parking and any managing agent rules.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, tables TS044 (accommodation type) and TS054 (tenure), via Nomis, aggregated over the LSOAs nearest each town centre; Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025 (CTSOP4.1, build period, 31 March 2025); OS Open Names and ONS Postcode Directory via postcodes.io; OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap data, from LS7 1AH. "Average" is the household-weighted average across the 203 towns and villages on our areas page. Figures compiled 2026-10-19.
Booking a Kitchen Makeover in Worsbrough
Getting to Worsbrough
Worsbrough is 25 miles and about 35 minutes by road from our Sheepscar workshop, so we book consultations around other visits in the same direction, and for a kitchen makeover that runs over several days we plan consecutive days so the job is finished without gaps.
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Distances are straight-line from Worsbrough centre. See every area we cover.
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What Customers Say About Our Kitchen Makeover Work
“Matt and his colleagues did a great job paint-spraying our kitchen units and worktops. The whole kitchen is transformed.”
“Absolutely thrilled with our kitchen transformation. We had all the cabinets sprayed as well as the walls, ceiling and woodwork. Guests say it looks like a whole new kitchen.”
These are genuine Google reviews from customers across Yorkshire, not only Worsbrough, whose kitchen work went beyond the doors to worktops, tiles, handles or walls. Read all our reviews.
Kitchen Makeover in Worsbrough: Questions
What does a kitchen makeover in Worsbrough include?
A respray of every door, drawer front, frame and end panel, plus the parts you choose: plinths, cornices and pelmets in the new colour, spray granite over the worktops, sprayed tiles and splashback, new handles, an island or dresser sprayed to match or contrast, and the walls, ceiling and woodwork decorated last, each priced as its own line on one fixed quote. With 36% of properties here, about 2,540, built from 1945 to 1972, most kitchens are later refits whose worktops and handles date them as much as the doors.
How much does a kitchen makeover cost in Worsbrough?
Makeovers start from £1,500, which covers the respray of a smaller kitchen with up to 10 doors and drawer fronts, and most respray work falls between £1,800 and £3,500; worktops, tiles, handles and decorating are priced as separate lines on the same fixed written quote after a free survey, and finance may be available, subject to status. Most homes here are semis (58%, about 3,760 households), whose mid-sized kitchens usually fall within that range before extras.
How long does a kitchen makeover take, and can we stay at home?
Most makeovers take 3 to 5 working days with no strip-out, so you stay at home, and spray granite worktops need 24 hours after coating before normal use; at 25 miles, about 35 minutes by road from our workshop, Worsbrough is within our normal working area, and we book the days back to back.
How far is Worsbrough from ColourHaus?
Our workshop is at Unit 9 Taverners Walk, Sheepscar, Leeds LS7 1AH. Worsbrough is about 25 miles by road, roughly 35 minutes away, to the south. We confirm visit dates and anything distance-related in your fixed-price quote before you commit.
What kind of homes do you work on in Worsbrough?
All kinds. Around Worsbrough centre, the most common home is a semi-detached house (58% of households, Census 2021), and 36% of properties were built between 1945 and 1972 (VOA, 2025); a kitchen makeover works in any of them, and what changes is access, room size and the materials we find.