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.
Gray stain on red oak cabinets.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
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.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
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.
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.
Weathered oak by minwax.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
General finishes gray gel stain.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
The solution to these problems is to restain your oak cabinets.
If you want to tone down your cabinets because they are too red or warm look for ash colored stains or even test the gray colors.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
This classic gray stain creates the perfect weathered look without over saturating with too much gray.
Gray wood tones with a very slight hint of warmth are stunning.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
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I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
I love oak cabinets.
Oak is an attractive wood with almost any stain color because it has a strong grain pattern and open pores that absorb stain well.
I used two coats to really enhance the gray color that the stain provided.
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.
Nov 29 2018 explore sheila eicholtz s board gray stained cabinets on pinterest.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.