Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Grey gel stain over oak cabinets.
The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.
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.
The color of gf s gray gel stain is so light that it can only be successfully applied over raw wood with the wipe away application method.
However there is no way i would attempt using gel stain on my kitchen cabinets as others have.
Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
Donna ginther transformed her golden oak cabinets by painting 3 coats of general finishes gray gel stain over her existing finish.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
In the darker rooms like the bathrooms in our house this worked out fine.
Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
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.
What a gorgeous end result.
Drying time varies based on the size and nature of your project as well as the environment it s located in.
I love oak cabinets.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain.
Between coats give your project a chance to dry.
Normally drying time ranges from 6 to 12 hours.
The quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping.
With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
The color soaked in well so i only needed 2 coats.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
Wipe off the gel stain going with the grain using a clean dry cotton cloth or high quality paper towels.
Aug 4 2016 explore kimberly merck s board gel stain over golden oak on pinterest.
Maybe it was my oak cabinets but i have never had so much trouble getting something to look even.
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My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping.