- Home Kitchen Wrap GuideHow It Works
How it works
The simple version of how a kitchen wrap actually happens.
Architectural vinyl is a thin, hard-wearing self-adhesive film bonded directly over your existing kitchen surfaces. Same cabinets and benchtops, completely new look. No demolition, no new joinery, in a fraction of the time and cost of replacement.
The product
What is a kitchen wrap?
A kitchen wrap is a self-adhesive architectural vinyl film applied directly over what’s already there: cabinet doors, drawer fronts, end panels, kick boards, benchtops, splashbacks, even appliance faces. The film is around 0.2 to 0.5mm thick with a permanent acrylic adhesive that bonds tight to clean MDF (sealed), melamine, laminate, timber and metal. Once it’s down it stays down: same surface, completely new look, no demolition.
The premium pick is 3M DI-NOC, the same film specified for hotel lifts, hospital corridors and commercial fit-outs. It carries an AS/NZS 1530.3 Group 1 fire classification on compliant substrates and a 12-year interior warranty. The safe call when a customer asks “will it last?”.
Alongside DI-NOC we stock a broader architectural-vinyl range covering wood, stone, marble, metal, solid colour and textile-look finishes. Quality and price across these ranges are broadly comparable; the choice comes down to the specific finish you’re after, not a tier. All architectural vinyl ships in 1220 mm wide rolls with a 5 lineal-metre minimum, and installs the same way: clean substrate, conform with heat, edge detail, done.
Where it goes
Eight kitchen surfaces we wrap.
If it’s flat enough for the film to lay over and sound enough to bond to, it can be wrapped. The list below covers the surfaces we wrap most weeks. What it doesn’t suit: heavily textured stone, surfaces with active mould or peeling paint, or kitchens where the substrate is structurally failing. We’ll flag any of this in your quote.
Cabinet doors
Laminate, melamine, MDF, timber, metal
Drawer fronts
Same substrate rules as doors
Side panels
End panels, kick boards, pelmets
Benchtops
Laminate or stone, with prep
Splashbacks
Smooth tile OK, pre-fill grout lines
Islands
Including waterfall ends
Pantry doors
Walk-in and butler's pantry fronts
Appliance fronts
Rangehoods, dishwashers, fridges
The process
Five steps from sample to finished kitchen.
Every kitchen wrap project, whether it’s a single island in Sydney or a full installation in Perth, follows the same five steps. Most customers are at finished kitchen within three to four weeks of placing their first sample order.
Pick your finish
Browse 1,000+ architectural vinyl finishes filtered for kitchen suitability: timber, marble, painted, stone, concrete, metal. Use the visual swatches and category filters to narrow down to a shortlist.
Order $5 A4 samples
Hold the actual material in your kitchen, in your lighting, against your existing surfaces. Most customers sample 3 to 6 finishes before committing. Samples ship Australia-wide in 1 to 3 days.
Request a quote
Add your shortlisted materials to the quote list, tell us your city, surface type and approximate linear metres. We respond with a fixed-price quote within one business day.
Approve and schedule
Approve the quote and we lock in install dates (Perth) or dispatch the pre-cut rolls (everywhere else). Materials arrive packed by surface so the install is straightforward.
Install by us or by you
Perth jobs typically take 2 to 3 days with our in-house crew (collect, wrap in workshop, reinstall). DIY installs take a competent person a weekend.
The material
Thin enough to conform. Tough enough to cook in.
Architectural vinyl is roughly 0.2 to 0.5mm thick, with a solvent-acrylic adhesive engineered for high-touch interior surfaces. Heat-conformable around curves and edges, resistant to kitchen moisture, easy to clean.
It’s the same family of films specified for hotel lifts, hospital corridors and commercial fit-outs, just selected and prepped for residential kitchen surfaces.
Timeline
From samples to a finished kitchen, in roughly a month.
Day 0
Order samples
$5 A4 swatches shipped from the shop.
Day 2 to 5
Samples arrive
Perth metro day 1 to 2. Choose finish, request quote.
Day 6 to 10
Quote issued
Fixed-price quote, approved, scheduled.
Week 3 to 4
Installed
Perth install on site, or rolls dispatched for DIY anywhere else.