Gray Gel Stain Oak Cabinets

Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.

Gray gel stain oak cabinets.

To get what you want you have to start with a. 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. My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping. Normally drying time ranges from 6 to 12 hours.

Stain the cabinet fronts by applying gel stain on a sponge brush with light and even strokes to avoid getting stain on the insides. It needs another coat but it s already pretty. The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was. Drying time varies based on the size and nature of your project as well as the environment it s located in.

In the darker rooms like the bathrooms in our house this worked out fine. Restyle junkie says ever wonder what general finishes gray gel stain looks like. However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain. Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.

However there is no way i would attempt using gel stain on my kitchen cabinets as others have. Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed. 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.

This is only one coat over a honey oak graham cracker cabinet. The quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping. May 28 2016 restyle junkie of phoenix az gives us a great visual of gf s gray gel stain.