How to Clean and Maintain Spray-Painted Bespoke Furniture Long-Term

For daily cleaning, a soft, slightly damp microfibre cloth removes fingerprints, dust, and light surface marks without damaging the finish. Avoid abrasive cloths, scouring pads, or rough paper towels — they will dull the sheen of the paint surface over time. For more stubborn marks — grease, food splashes — a diluted neutral kitchen cleaner (Flash, Method) applied with a damp cloth is appropriate. Avoid bleach-based cleaners, solvent-based products, and abrasive cream cleaners. Immediately dry any excess moisture from the surface after cleaning.

Surface scratches that have not penetrated to the MDF substrate can often be polished out with a specialist furniture polishing compound or a light application of a matching paint touch-up. Full chips or scratches that expose the substrate require a small touch-up with matching paint, applied carefully with a fine artist\'s brush. The challenge of touch-up on factory spray-painted surfaces is that the touch-up paint application will always be slightly visible on close inspection — a perfect match is not achievable with a brush over spray. We retain a small quantity of matched paint for each project and can advise on touch-up technique.