Red Oak Cabinets Stained Grey
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Red oak cabinets stained grey. I love oak cabinets. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next. 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. General finishes gray gel stain.
See more ideas about kitchen design kitchen remodel home kitchens. The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat. Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them. 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.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were. I was going to use quarter sawn white oak vs. Luckily these floors are versatile when it comes to design elements beyond color. It doesn t matter what style of cabinet you choose either.
For red oak that has been colored with darker stains go with antique white walls or light grey cabinets to keep the room from getting too dark. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. Vintage blue 288.
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. Carbon gray by rust oluem varathane. Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter. 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.
Nov 29 2018 explore sheila eicholtz s board gray stained cabinets on pinterest. Quarter sawn red oak. From your testing i realized i can use the red oak since my stain although not as dark as the jacobean will make seeing the difference in white vs. 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 still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.