Kitchen re-fit - decisions!!!!

Gloss finish does tend to show every mark but it does look good if I have to be honest.
If you don't have little people visiting with little finger marks everywhere I would consider going with what you like best,I would go for white or cream and steer away from black as it shows every speck of household dust.
White/cream shaker style wood would be my personal choice.

Our kitchen is about 26 years old, is white gloss and still looks as good as new (though I would like a more practical design now).

Gloss would be my ideal too.

I'm moving house shortly and will be doing a total kitchen refit in the new house and like you, I've been looking for inspiration at kitchen showrooms. There are so many high gloss doors to choose from and I too wondered if they will show every finger mark and streak.
I did see one kitchen style that I liked very much; cream shaker style with butchers block counter tops. Then I realised it's the exact kitchen I have in my current house! If it's still available, more than 12 years after I installed my own, it must still be popular!

We have gloss finish, easy to keep clean. I use an e-cloth or an eco friendly glass cleaner.

Often have a house full of GC, takes seconds to remove any fingerprints.

We have recently had a new kitchen fitted with handless gloss finished doors and are very pleased with it. It looks great and is very practical.

What GrannyGravy says?!

I love my white high gloss kitchen doors but I am less impressed with the grooves on the doors which attract dust.

My door handles are also which gloss, small and round and look great, in my opinion, and that is the only one which counts!

I would not choose my kitchen, if I was making the choice today. The doors are fiddly to clean, and the handles attract dust. DH and I were just debating yesterday, as to whether to change the handles. I think I might have a look, and see what looks suitable. It was a very popular style of kitchen 18 years ago.

We have a gloss kitchen and no marks but i just went back to look
We havent removed the protective film no one had noticed lol

I have an aubergine coloured gloss doors and cream gloss through the dining room side of the huge island ..The cream colour gloss is always spotless but the aubergine is always showing marks . If I clean it then it's fab until someone goes near it and any form of liquid see.s to dive towards the doors... I'm sure it jumps out of the cup of bowl just about to go in o near the sink. Easy to clean but dark colour needs it more often.

Nanabilly we flirted with the idea of aubergine when we were looking for ours, and then went just for cream. Glad we did now. Apart from anything else, unless you have a large kitchen, which it sounds like you have, dark colours close the space down.

I currently have a french navy high gloss kitchen and I really love it ,Glass cleaner keeps it sparkling and its not difficult to clean.When we moved into this house there was a wood kitchen with pannelled doors and they were anightmare to keep clean and dust free .I 'd never go back to that style .

I have grey gloss cupboard doors and white gloss doors with a white and grey fleck marble top. I don't find it shows any more marks than anything else and it is easy to wipe down.

We have fitted cupboards in the bathroom and they are a high gloss - and easy to keep clean.

Our kitchen does need doing so I'm finding this thread interesting as I wasn't sure about gloss for the larger expanse of cupboards in the kitchen. It sounds quite futuristic to me and our house, although not old, is more traditional.

We had gloss fronts when we put a new kitchen in 3 years ago and I find them very easy to keep clean even with looking after toddler DGC .

However I did replace a whole drawer front section last year due to one drawer that had been chipped on the inside at the top.
(Obviously done by Mr Nobody).
Possibly knocked by a tin can.
Fortunately the kitchen was still in stock and the kitchen fitter was still available.

Unfortunatly I had to buy 3 drawer fronts (not sold separately).

So I would say that wood is more robust and at a later date there is of course the option of painting it.

All that said 3 years on and I'm still happy with my kitchen.
I have embraced Pan Drawers instead of cupboards.
(Imho) much easier to find things and to keep clean and orderly and no longer down on my knees seaching at the back of dark corner units for backing tins etc.
Now all neatly stacked and easy to find.?

All my cupboards have drawers in them - so much easier to find things.

I have cream Shaker style kitchen, not glossy, it never seems to attract marks and is easy to clean, but DD has white high gloss in her kitchen and that also is easy to clean and doesn’t show marks.So I think that you should go for whatever you like as long as it’s light in colour.

I have an ivory coloured handleless gloss kitchen. It does take looking after however it also only takes around 10 minutes to keep it looking good if you are in that mindset. My kitchen is fairly big but a run about with a damp cloth then polished up with a vileda cloth and it comes up a treat and looks very good. If you want anything to look good at all times it takes a bit of effort but def worth it I would say. Good luck!.

Ours are a sort of matt wood finish. The kitchen units, tiles etc were there when we bought the place last year, and we liked it.
We've changed the worktops which were wood effect, and quite worn, to a sort of shiny marble. It was expensive, but hard wearing, I hope.

Ours is black and white. White gloss doors and black worktops with little sparkles, black floor and cooker hood. I can't say the gloss needs constant cleaning. It's the first new kitchen I've ever had and I'm chuffed to bits with it, tiny though it is.

I absolutely love my new cream shaker style kitchen. There were lots of glossy ones in the showroom which I didn't particularly like.
My kitchen looks so bright and cheerful with light oak work tops and is very much in keeping with the age and design of the house.

Almost every worktop requires cleaning after use still, a granite one would be a possible choice as from personal experience it is easier to clean. Just be sure to choose the right color.

My cream high gloss kitchen installed four years ago did not show any marks. I deliberately chose a plain door front as I think the grooves on shaker style and other panelled doors attract grease and dust. I have a matt finish cream shaker style in my new house and it is difficult to clean the panels.