How To Restain Kitchen Cabinets From Dark To A Lighter Stain
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.
How to restain kitchen cabinets from dark to a lighter stain. This is a more detailed video than my last one on how to gel stain your kitchen cabinets. The only way to properly lighten the wood is to remove the lacquer sand off the dark stain and replace it with a lighter color of stain. Changing kitchen cabinets from dark to light stain can brighten the space. Just keep in mind that whichever polyshades color you choose to apply will take over the existing light finish so the.
Otherwise if you have stain in the can that s too dark you can dilute it to change the color before applying it. How to restain wood without stripping so simple. Do you think that it would be possible to restain a darker wood with a lighter poly stain. The most effective way to lighten the color of your stain is bleaching the wood with chemicals.
Sorry that it s so long but i wanted to make sure i covered as mu. Stain sinks into wood pores under a sealed topcoat of lacquer. If your existing finish is a lighter wood tone similar to or such as minwax wood finish colors natural golden oak ipswich pine puritan pine golden pecan fruitwood driftwood early american cherry or pickled oak changing color with polyshades is quite easy. When stain is applied to any species it typically darkens the wood.
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. Steel wool and mineral spirits can lighten your wood stain by a small amount if you don t need to adjust the color much. Walnut mahogany cherry and an assortment of exotic species are naturally colored dark and even without stain can only be lightened to a certain degree ash maple oak pine birch fir and cedar are light in color and easier to lighten.