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Gray stained red oak cabinets.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
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.
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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.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
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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.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
General finishes gray gel stain.
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.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
Weathered oak by minwax.
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Grey stained oak cabinets.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
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Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Over time your oak cabinets may get scratched or become discolored or you may decide you want a slightly darker look.