General finishes gray gel stain.
Gray stained red oak cabinets.
Weathered oak by minwax.
But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
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.
The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
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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.
Over time your oak cabinets may get scratched or become discolored or you may decide you want a slightly darker look.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
I love oak cabinets.
Oak cabinets are durable and can be stained to match a variety of interiors.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
I liked that it added a gray finish to the wood in a more subtle way and still allowed the wood grain to show through and look natural.
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Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
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Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
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.
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