Staining Oak Cabinets Darker
If there is something you want to change you have the other side to adjust the stain.
Staining oak cabinets darker. He should marry it. Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials. There was absolutely no way i was going to attempt to strip all the existing stain and finish off this vanity plus i was looking to minimize some of the oak grain.
With the next set of cabinet doors i hand sanded lightly and then used a paint stripper at the moment i don t quite remember the name of the brand i purchased at home depot. I have had at least 25 conversations with. Stripping to bare wood beyond hugely labor intensive will make the gray go over the raw pink nature of red oak so you get a pink gray more kin to the 80 s pink whitewash g technique than the current fad of gray stain.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them. I know that 90 of you are cursing your 1990s oak cabinets while the remaining 10 love them and wouldn t let a lick of paint go near them. I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
My father in law is going to give me the hardest time for this post. However oak does have a very dramatic grain of the wood which can sometimes give even the darkest stain a streaky effect or the look of highlights. I have done similar work on staining cabinets from oak to a darker stain and the first time i experienced the peeling upon applying the second quote.
I had the idea that i could use a tinted topcoat like minwax s polyshades to darken the wood same technique i used on my old kitchen table. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored. Luckily you can stain oak to look as dark as possible.
I used gel stain on my oak cabinets in the bathroom and am happy. Wood stain is the usual choice for adding darker tones to wood and it works by absorbing into the pores of bare wood. To get what you want you have to start with a.
Buh bye oak cabinets i conquered you. I think you re really going to like this reveal. Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint. Out with the golden brown in with a dark rich javalicious stain. My dark cabinets do show dust rather quickly.
Polyurethane on existing cabinetry seals the pores which means traditional. I love oak cabinets. He loves it so much.