Staining Honey Oak Cabinets Grey
Not sure if weathered is what i m trying to achieve.
Staining honey oak cabinets grey. As i don t want a country look and no blue undertone. I know you ve all got em. Hi i m rhonda and today i m going to show you a super cool trick that i found to update your golden oak or honey oak cabinets without painting. I am updating my kitchen to an eclectic industrial look on a budget.
Ok i m new at this. These dated oak cabinets that were very popular in the 80 s and 90 s but today not so much. Please tell me the easiest and cheapest way to achieve a gray cabinet with some of the brown tones of the wood coming through and wood grain. My entire kitchen is oak golden honey stain.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint. See more ideas about gel stain stain staining wood. 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 love oak cabinets.
Aug 4 2016 explore kimberly merck s board gel stain over golden oak on pinterest. Nov 12 2019 stripping is a lot of hard gross goopy work and no one likes to do it. My husband and i have been debating whether or not to paint our arched honey oak cabinets from 1972. Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
Getting to this point has required hours and hours of painful brainpower over three years during which time i ve asked more people than i have fingers and toes their opinion on oak painted oak stained oak orange cabinets gray cabinets white cabinets dirty cabinets and beveled cabinets. The only reason we are leaning away from painting is that the kitchen and the rest of the house has the same honey oak wood trim baseboards stairs etc. I recently created this beautiful grey stain look without stripping to raw wood. Could you use a grey stain or a colored stain other than brown.
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. Rather than getting the cabinets refinished again i decided to paint the walls in my kitchen with the useful gray color. Doorways from the kitchen into other rooms are trimmed in oak as well. I recently had my honey oak cabinets refinished by a local wood refinishing company and they did a great job but the stain i chose for the cabinets didn t quite go with the walls or the decor of the room.