Luckily these floors are versatile when it comes to design elements beyond color.
Red oak cabinets stained grey.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
Vintage blue 288.
Of 4 4 and 10 bd.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
I was going to use quarter sawn white oak vs.
It doesn t matter what style of cabinet you choose either.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
I know that 90 of you are cursing your 1990s oak cabinets while the remaining 10 love them and wouldn t let a lick of paint go near them.
I have oak cabinets in our home and i love them but not all oak or wood cabinets were.
Oak and wood cabinets how do decide whether to stain or paint.
Quarter sawn red oak.
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.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Carbon gray by rust oluem varathane.
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Sunbleached by rust oleum varathane doesn t seem like it would be a grey colored stain but it actually goes on as a very creamy light grey wood stain color.
I m going to need approximately 20 bd.
From your testing i realized i can use the red oak since my stain although not as dark as the jacobean will make seeing the difference in white vs.
Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter.
For red oak that has been colored with darker stains go with antique white walls or light grey cabinets to keep the room from getting too dark.