Gray Gel Stain On Oak Cabinets
Looking for a thrifty way to update kitchen cabinets.
Gray gel stain on oak cabinets. To get what you want you have to start with a. I also had old oak cabinets with a veneer side. The color soaked in well so i only needed 2 coats. Wipe off the gel stain going with the grain using a clean dry cotton cloth or high quality paper towels.
Check out these amazing before and after pictures for how to refinish cabinets darker. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored. I love oak cabinets. The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them. Hands down general finishes gel stain is the best brand for diy projects. 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 first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping. It needs another coat but it s already pretty. Restyle junkie says ever wonder what general finishes gray gel stain looks like. I followed youtuber pete b n his exact directions n used same brush to paint on the gel stain n let me tell you it came out perfect n i never did this before.
The quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping. May 28 2016 restyle junkie of phoenix az gives us a great visual of gf s gray gel stain. Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint. The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.
I used general finishes java gel stain n also used antique walnut. Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed. Stain the cabinet fronts by applying gel stain on a sponge brush with light and even strokes to avoid getting stain on the insides. The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
The easy to use gel stain completely transforms oak cabinets. Between coats give your project a chance to dry. 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. Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat. While gel stain does go on thick and sit on the surface of the wood i found that you can still see and feel the natural wood grain beneath unlike paint. General finishes gray gel stain. Normally drying time ranges from 6 to 12 hours.
This is only one coat over a honey oak graham cracker cabinet. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.