With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Gray stain on red oak cabinets.
The solution to these problems is to restain your oak cabinets.
I love oak cabinets.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
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 over orange is just ugly mud colored.
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.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
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.
If you want to add additional definition to your cabinets a trick is to glaze corners and lines in an almost black stain and wipe off excess stain.
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Gray wood tones with a very slight hint of warmth are stunning.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
Oak is an attractive wood with almost any stain color because it has a strong grain pattern and open pores that absorb stain well.
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.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
I used two coats to really enhance the gray color that the stain provided.
Weathered oak by minwax.
General finishes gray gel stain.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Classic gray tends to be slightly blotchy so make sure to use pre conditioner with this stain color.
This classic gray stain creates the perfect weathered look without over saturating with too much gray.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
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.