Varathane weathered gray stain the color of the varathane weathered gray stain varied widely depending on the wood species.
Grey gel stain on oak cabinets.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain.
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.
Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
In the darker rooms like the bathrooms in our house this worked out fine.
However there is no way i would attempt using gel stain on my kitchen cabinets as others have.
I m happy to report that the gel stain went on the unfinished doors easily and matched all of the old doors almost perfectly.
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.
Maybe it was my oak cabinets but i have never had so much trouble getting something to look even.
Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
I was worried about the gel stain looking the same on the unfinished cabinet doors as the rest of the kitchen where the gel stain was resting on top of an oak finish.
Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.