How To Stain Raw Oak Cabinets

Step 2 unless your cabinets are raw wood the existing finish must be removed before you can apply the new stain coat.

How to stain raw oak cabinets.

Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors. 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. Apply trans tint bright scarlet to the bare wood and let it dry. Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.

Cabinet doors made with glacial northern red oak can be given a light stain or even no stain and simply finished with polyurethane with excellent results. 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. Staining oak furniture enhances the look of the wood while adding a decorative finish. Glacial northern red oak is used exclusively by the door stop in all our select red oak cabinet doors and this post will focus upon finishing these doors.

To get what you want you have to start with a different material. If done properly staining and finishing the wood can be a rewarding do it yourself experience. You needn t be a professional to stain oak furniture cabinets or anything in between. You start with unfinished white oak.

With the next set of cabinet doors i hand sanded lightly and then used a paint stripper at the moment i don t quite remember the name of the brand i purchased at home depot. Over time your oak cabinets may get scratched or become discolored or you may decide you want a slightly darker look. But the gel stain is applied without a barrier coat so it darkens both the earlywood and latewood. For lighter oak four parts raw sienna mixed with one part raw umber.

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. Bleached oak cabinets takes some serious thought because you can t just throw some bleach product on the wood in hopes of achieving the look you want. This finish looks great on plainsawn red oak boards and is impossible to get straight out of a can. I love oak cabinets.

The red dye is incredibly strong. Deep dark red oak. There are two ways to go about it.