Grey Oak Stain Cabinets

Make sure your wood is properly prepared.

Grey oak stain cabinets. Allow it to fully dry. You start with unfinished white oak. The cabinet stain color is custom with a gray washed finish. I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.

Not orange oak cabinets. Each piece was sanded with 150 grit sandpaper and was not treated with any kind of wood conditioner before applying the stain. Carbon gray by rust oluem varathane. This cabinet looks great with the marble looking quartz countertop and slab backsplash.

A cabinet maker should be able to replicate this look if you show this picture to them. Apply a white wash mixture to the wood using one about 1 part water to 1 part white paint. A light gray stain will give your cabinets character is unexpected and allows you to retain a soft light neutral look that easily works with many design styles finishes materials and colors. 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.

This kitchen has a lot of wood in it but because the cabinetry color is not a typical wood tone there s enough variation to keep it from appearing. To get what you want you have to start with a different material. Wipe away any excess stain. Here s the great thing about oak cabinets they re solid wood not the interiors necessarily but the doors at least.

Nov 29 2018 explore sheila eicholtz s board gray stained cabinets on pinterest. In particular oak cabinets from the 1980s and 90s are my faves as man do they stand the test of time and only after 30 years of wear and tear do they need some love kind of like me wink wink. 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. Then apply a pre stain wood conditioner.

This stain is very thick to apply and you really have to wipe the stain into the wood to allow the grain to still show through. Sunbleached by rust oleum varathane doesn t seem like it would be a grey colored stain but it actually goes on as a very creamy light grey wood stain color. Stain your wood with one coat of minwax dark walnut stain. See more ideas about kitchen remodel kitchen design new kitchen.

All the grey wood stain colors were tested on birch plywood maple poplar pine and oak. Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint. I ve seen more modern.