Gray Stained Red Oak Cabinets
General finishes gray gel stain.
Gray stained red oak cabinets. People also love these ideas. I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were. Grey stained oak cabinets. 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.
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 weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color. Weathered oak by minwax. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right. I liked that it added a gray finish to the wood in a more subtle way and still allowed the wood grain to show through and look natural. Saved by kelsi little. With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Over time your oak cabinets may get scratched or become discolored or you may decide you want a slightly darker look. See more ideas about kitchen design kitchen remodel home kitchens. Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
I love oak cabinets. If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored. To get what you want you have to start with a.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications. Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head. 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. Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat. Nov 29 2018 explore sheila eicholtz s board gray stained cabinets on pinterest. Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.