I love oak cabinets.
Grey stained white oak cabinets.
However i am staining oak cabinets yep circa 1991 and am wondering what would look best on top of that.
The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light grey to dark brown.
Rift sawn lumber is produced by quartering the log then sawing it perpendicular to the growth rings.
I used two coats to really enhance the gray color that the stain provided.
This kitchen has a lot of wood in it but because the cabinetry color is not a typical wood tone there s enough variation to keep it from appearing.
I have always been a gray girl even when it wasn t popular.
White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture.
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.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
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.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
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.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
To get what you want you have to start with a different material.
You start with unfinished white oak.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
A light gray stain will give your cabinets character is unexpected and allows you to retain a soft light neutral look that easily works with many design styles finishes materials and colors.
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The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
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Not orange oak cabinets.
White oak is a very strong dense hardwood that is resilient and dimensionally stable.
General finishes gray gel stain.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
Over time your oak cabinets may get scratched or become discolored or you may decide you want a slightly darker look.