Glazing Old Oak Cabinets

I show you how to stain your old honey oak cabinets and make them look darker with black lining in all the corners.

Glazing old oak cabinets.

Change the hardware more often than not cabinets from the 80s and 90s don t have hardware handles or knobs. We know the knee jerk reactions to honey oak cabinets. Antique your kitchen cabinets by applying the cabinet glazing techniques shown here. Then using a circular or straight motion liberally apply a layer of glaze over one of the cabinets.

Paint them white get new cabinet fronts remodel the whole room basically get rid of it. Find out more beyond the jump. 4 ideas to update oak cabinets. Glaze however can let the grain show through.

The stain does. So what if you could use what you have already and reglaze those oak cabinets. Honey oak cabinets have a lovely open grain that is rendered invisible if coated with solid color paint. Might try white glaze over cabinets after cleaning and light sanding they also have a process to lighten wood called pickling or whitewashing google either one and there are tutorials on how to accomplish the look you want.

1 remove hardware such as knobs and. But when you really think about it oak cabinetry is usually made of high quality wood that shouldn t be tossed aside so easily. Then i took a clean lint free cloth and rubbed several coats of the finish letting it dry in between coats. Dip a rag natural bristle paintbrush or foam brush into the glaze.

The best paint colours to coordinate with wood. Therefore we have old and some new oak to work with as we had to buy additional oak during the reno. I d love to give you a how to on staining oak cabinets but i d rather leave it to the pros hgtv how to restain wood cabinets. We will cover th.

And though i realize wallpaper seems old fashioned a pretty modern paper above the wainscoting that goes well with the cabinets really seems like it could update my kitchen and take the focus off the cabinets. I know this doesn t work for. Oak cabinet update idea. Glazing over honey oak stained cabinets.

I used a product called restorzit on my bed a rocker and an old antique stand bookcase all the instructions said to do was use the special soap to clean the item to get all the old dirt wax etc off it first. For a more modern look.