Glazing Old Oak Cabinets
An antique glaze is somewhere in the middle allowing the natural beauty and grain of the oak to show through while updating the appearance of the cabinets.
Glazing old oak cabinets. Honey oak cabinets have a lovely open grain that is rendered invisible if coated with solid color paint. Might try white glaze over cabinets after cleaning and light sanding they also have a process to lighten wood called pickling or whitewashing google either one and there are tutorials on how to accomplish the look you want. Paint them white get new cabinet fronts remodel the whole room basically get rid of it. Diy network how to restain wood cabinets.
Therefore we have old and some new oak to work with as we had to buy additional oak during the reno. 1 remove hardware such as knobs and. I know this doesn t work for. I show you how to stain your old honey oak cabinets and make them look darker with black lining in all the corners.
For a more modern look. I used a product called restorzit on my bed a rocker and an old antique stand bookcase all the instructions said to do was use the special soap to clean the item to get all the old dirt wax etc off it first. This video will show you how to glaze kitchen cabinets. Change the hardware more often than not cabinets from the 80s and 90s don t have hardware handles or knobs.
And though i realize wallpaper seems old fashioned a pretty modern paper above the wainscoting that goes well with the cabinets really seems like it could update my kitchen and take the focus off the cabinets. So what if you could use what you have already and reglaze those oak cabinets. Glaze however can let the grain show through. Then i took a clean lint free cloth and rubbed several coats of the finish letting it dry in between coats.
The stain does. The best paint colours to coordinate with wood. We will cover th. Find out more beyond the jump.
I d love to give you a how to on staining oak cabinets but i d rather leave it to the pros hgtv how to restain wood cabinets. Dip a rag natural bristle paintbrush or foam brush into the glaze. Glazing over honey oak stained cabinets. 4 ideas to update oak cabinets.
We know the knee jerk reactions to honey oak cabinets. But when you really think about it oak cabinetry is usually made of high quality wood that shouldn t be tossed aside so easily.