I'm not normally one for advocating debt on others, but get a loan, get finance, get your dream, good quality made to last kitchen. This DIY kitchen plan is just a really poor idea, and she will really regret the bodge it and patch it approach in 12 months and spend money to fix it i guarantee. I could understand if she had a really old kitchen and wanted to paint the cupboards as a stop gap but this is just silly to try "repair/titivate" a decent kitchen because it's not her style.
Get the whole thing taken out carefully, sell it on Ebay and get your dream kitchen. She wastes money on all sorts of cheap tat, just reign that in and put it towards monthly payments on the kitchen.