When staining soft maple kitchen doors and drawers from a millworks shop the painter applied a special walnut stain directly to the raw wood.
Blue stained maple cabinets.
If you want a darker finish on maple use a dye.
Tips for a darker stain on hard maple.
In order to find the right wall color it s important to know what type of stained cabinets you have.
We re your cabinets paint brush painted or spray painted and are there pro and cons for choosing one or the other.
The stain did not take well on wood milled with the grain and on cross cuts the stain soaked into the wood giving a dark black color.
I chose red mahogany which will stain to a medium color because of the maple.
Find out which is better for the grade or type of wood like oak cedar and mahogany.
Hi my husband built a maple cabinet with maple veneer plywood and maple doors.
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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.
Maple cabinet door staining problems solutions.
Stained cabinets guide compares paint and stain for kitchen and bathroom cabinets including pros cons costs and types like gel stain or white paint.
Deciding on doing this exact same thing to our maple kitchen cabinets also.
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Tip number 2 always start staining on the backs so if you hate the stain experiment you will not see it every day.
Apr 15 2018 explore charlie battles s board maple stain on pinterest.
Each stain has an undertone of it s own just like paint colors.
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 stains shown are approximate representations only.
Dark espresso medium walnut cherry red toned and light yellow or orange toned oak maple.
Tip number 1 do not stain.
I am using general finishes wipe on gel which i have used before with success.
Actual stain color may differ from what appears on your screen due to variations in computer monitors.
I read somewhere that colours are not true when they are paint sprayed because they dilute the paint to allow it to travel through the sprayer nozzle etc.
Now if you still want to get a darker finish on your maple cabinet doors here are some tips.