Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Grey gel stain over oak cabinets.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
Normally drying time ranges from 6 to 12 hours.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel 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.
Donna ginther transformed her golden oak cabinets by painting 3 coats of general finishes gray gel stain over her existing finish.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
Drying time varies based on the size and nature of your project as well as the environment it s located in.
The quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping.
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 cabinet fronts by applying gel stain on a sponge brush with light and even strokes to avoid getting stain on the insides.
Between coats give your project a chance to dry.
Aug 4 2016 explore kimberly merck s board gel stain over golden oak on pinterest.
Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
Wipe off the gel stain going with the grain using a clean dry cotton cloth or high quality paper towels.
Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish.
The color soaked in well so i only needed 2 coats.
Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
What a gorgeous end result.
The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping.
With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
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Maybe it was my oak cabinets but i have never had so much trouble getting something to look even.
The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
I love oak cabinets.
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.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.