Staining Red Oak Kitchen Cabinets
Camila Farah
But the gel stain is applied without a barrier coat so it darkens both the earlywood and latewood.
When you have covered the wood with a single coat of the conditioner give the conditioner 10 minutes to penetrate into the wood. Out with the golden brown in with a dark rich javalicious stain. Apply a thin coat of. 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.
So the first step in how to stain kitchen cabinets is to remove all the doors as well as the hardware. Allow the stain to dry according to label recommendations. Below are examples of a few cabinet door styles made from glacial northern red oak and stained with differing amounts of minwax golden oak. Buh bye oak cabinets i conquered you.
This finish looks great on plainsawn red oak boards and is impossible to get straight out of a can. Red oak is porous and has open grains. 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. Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
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For oil based stain use an oil based conditioner. Use a paintbrush to apply the conditioner working your paintbrush in strokes parallel with the wood grain. Compared to birch or maple red oak finishes and stains easily and doesn t have blotching problems. I typically use sherwin williams sherwood wiping stains which i apply by spray.I think you re really going to like this reveal. The red dye is incredibly strong. It can also lead to unwanted and unsightly drips and bubbles. For water based stain use a water based conditioner.
Red oak is not a difficult wood to finish. I finish sanding to 220 although the 180 would be fine. I don t fill the grain and i doubt that you will find that many do in building kitchen cabinets. Red oak is well suited for furniture flooring cabinets cabinet doors and paneling and is available at most home centers.
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. Staining doors when they re attached to cabinets isn t just more difficult. Apply trans tint bright scarlet to the bare wood and let it dry. Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
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