Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
Gray gel stain oak cabinets.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain.
The color soaked in well so i only needed 2 coats.
In the darker rooms like the bathrooms in our house this worked out fine.
Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
It needs another coat but it s already pretty.
Maybe it was my oak cabinets but i have never had so much trouble getting something to look even.
May 28 2016 restyle junkie of phoenix az gives us a great visual of gf s gray gel stain.
Stain the cabinet fronts by applying gel stain on a sponge brush with light and even strokes to avoid getting stain on the insides.
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.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
The quart of poly cost 28 50 with shipping the rough cost to refinish the cabinets with gel stain was.
Wipe off the gel stain going with the grain using a clean dry cotton cloth or high quality paper towels.
My first 1 2 pint of gel stain was 14 48 with shipping.
This is only one coat over a honey oak graham cracker cabinet.
Let the first coat dry and apply one or two more coats as needed.
The quart that i bought to finish the project was 27 50 with shipping.
Restyle junkie says ever wonder what general finishes gray gel stain looks like.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
Normally drying time ranges from 6 to 12 hours.