Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
Grey gel stain on oak cabinets.
Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
Varathane weathered gray stain the color of the varathane weathered gray stain varied widely depending on the wood species.
I m happy to report that the gel stain went on the unfinished doors easily and matched all of the old doors almost perfectly.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.
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 quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping.
It barely soaked into the oak at all but looked much darker on the maple.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain.
Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
Maybe it was my oak cabinets but i have never had so much trouble getting something to look even.
Remove cabinet doors drawers knobs and hinges stain the cabinet fronts by applying gel stain on a sponge brush with light and even strokes to avoid getting stain on the insides.