Giving your home a perfect color palette goes beyond paint.
Gel stain colors for kitchen cabinets.
Instead i plan to paint them white which is a project for this spring.
I decided to paint our kitchen cabinets.
With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining.
Pre installed cabinets will suffer fewer drips drops and messes when you re working with the peanut buttery consistency of gel stain as opposed to the thin liquid you d be dealing with.
With sherwin williams stain colors you can let the natural wood shine through match grain colors or cover unsightly blemishes.
You can see that process here if you re looking for some good tutorials on how to use gel stain i found this video and this video especially helpful.
Really work it into the grooves of the wood and make sure you apply it all over.
Gel stain dries pretty quickly so work on one door drawer or section of cabinet at a time.
While gel stain does go on thick and sit on the surface of the wood i found that you can still see and feel the natural wood grain beneath unlike paint.
With kitchen renovations costing thousands of dollars this gel stain is about 30 for a quart a quart goes a long way.
However my bright kitchen will not see gel stain.
Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish.
Easy to use general finishes gel stain is undoubtedly the best gel stain brand as it involves little prep and produces high quality results.