I have done similar work on staining cabinets from oak to a darker stain and the first time i experienced the peeling upon applying the second quote.
Grey stained oak cabinets before and after.
And after i chose benjamin moore chelsea gray for the cabinets.
Try lighter colors that reflect natural light leaving the room feeling brighter and more welcoming.
These oak cabinets were in fine condition but ultimately fell flat literally.
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.
Painting the cabinets white and adding a textured backsplash helped open up the room.
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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.
The red walls and brown cabinets featured in the original kitchen left the room feeling dark.
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.
Dull doors in a dark kitchen photo by courtesy of cherished bliss.
Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
Change the hardware more often than not cabinets from the 80s and 90s don t have hardware handles or knobs.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
The cabinets were such great workmanship custom made and all real solid oak.
Bright paint and new hardware photo by courtesy of cherished bliss.
In these photos it looks just slightly gray.
Before we had decent bones with the solid oak cabinets shaker style doors.
The only negative was that the hinges were slightly exposed but it s no biggie as you wouldn t see much of them once they were painted a darker colour.
To add depth and detail to generic doors homeowner and blogger ashley thurman affixed trim and applied a new.
We just could not bring us to that decision to rip them all out and destroy them.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
After 7 years of living with them we finally made the decision to get them reglazed in a light gray.
Nov 29 2018 explore sheila eicholtz s board gray stained cabinets on pinterest.