Gray Gel Stain On Oak Cabinets

The bottom is the ash gray.
Gray gel stain on oak cabinets. I wanted a grayish brown finish so i think ash gray is my pick. The top door is the carbon gray. Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
To get what you want you have to start with a. I also had old oak cabinets with a veneer side. The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid. 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.
What a gorgeous end result. My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping. The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was. Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
The color of gf s gray gel stain is so light that it can only be successfully applied over raw wood with the wipe away application method. With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining. While gel stain does go on thick and sit on the surface of the wood i found that you can still see and feel the natural wood grain beneath unlike paint. Aug 14 2019 i tested the new general finishes gel stains on golden oak cabinet doors.
Donna ginther transformed her golden oak cabinets by painting 3 coats of general finishes gray gel stain over her existing finish.