This kitchen has a lot of wood in it but because the cabinetry color is not a typical wood tone there s enough variation to keep it from appearing.
Red oak cabinet stain colors.
Stain the front of the cabinet doors with light and even strokes to avoid clumping.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
For each stain color section i selected several paint colors to help both compliment and update existing stained cabinets.
The colors shown are for reference purposes only.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
Dark espresso medium walnut cherry red toned and light yellow or orange toned oak maple.
A light gray stain will give your cabinets character is unexpected and allows you to retain a soft light neutral look that easily works with many design styles finishes materials and colors.
The color soaked in well so i only needed 2 coats.
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.
When combined with flat fronted cabinets and paired with industrial style light fixtures gray stained cabinets will give you a high tech or an avant garde design and it s even among the colors that go with teal if however you use a more conventional cabinet style like a plain mission style for example and.
But the gel stain is applied without a barrier coat so it darkens both the earlywood and latewood.
Apply trans tint bright scarlet to the bare wood and let it dry.
This finish looks great on plainsawn red oak boards and is impossible to get straight out of a can.
Always test stain on a hidden area of the wood to verify desired color.
The digitized colors are for reference purposes only.
I have outlined the most common stained cabinet colors.
They have been reproduced using digital production techniques.
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.
Always test stain on a hidden area to verify desired color.
Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter.
Gray stained kitchen cabinets are the mediators of kitchen design styles.