The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
Red oak cabinets stained grey.
Carbon gray by rust oluem varathane.
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.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
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.
I m going to need approximately 20 bd.
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.
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.
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Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter.
I was going to use quarter sawn white oak vs.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
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General finishes gray gel stain.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Of 4 4 and 10 bd.
Vintage blue 288.
I love oak cabinets.
Luckily these floors are versatile when it comes to design elements beyond color.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
It doesn t matter what style of cabinet you choose either.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Quarter sawn red oak.
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.