White oak kitchen cabinets stain?
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Comments (2)yeah, i don't think you can make red oak look like white oak. i have several french antique pieces in european red oak. it is very dark, and i love it. i bought some antique chairs recently to go with a red oak table. i thought they were dark too, but they are in white oak. i believe that i can make the white oak chairs darker, but vise versa is another story. i would definitely make him redo those cabs in the wood that you chose. he should not have changed that without your permission. i hate it when i pay someone for a product/service and they just take it upon themselves to do what they want to do. my poolbuilder moved my pool about a foot and a half without telling me. i noticed it was not lined up with a planter after it was built and he admitted that he had done this. i guess its too late to make him fill that pool in and re-dig another one a foot and a half over. but, i would consider cabinets a different story. make him do it over....See MoreStaining white oak floors with dark cabinets?
Comments (11)Everyone probably differs in what they like in a wood. I don't mind the differences in color, I kind of like that, but I don't like the heavily grained boards that scream "oak", so I put the boards with the more consistant grain in the midde rather than all the light ones. Some people probably love the grain. It just goes to show how different it can be depending on who is installing it. I probably would have preferred maple, but some people think that looks like a gym, it is more modern, and it would not have matched the rest of house as much, or the cabinets, since it is even lighter than oak. You might have liked that better, though, since it tends to be lighter and more consistent in color, I think. Sue...See MoreRed Oak vs White oak - natural or stained
Comments (7)I like White Oak better than Red. It works better with a certain color pallette and is less grainy when stained. I have natural color White Oak in my master bedroom. Traditionally flooring here was White Oak when stained, Red Oak when natural, but that's going quite a long way back. Two things to consider. 1) The floor in the pictures looks almost certain to be #1 Common grade. White Oak will have some substantial color variations, especially in a grade lower than Select. 2) $1.00 per square foot additional for staining sounds like a lot. We charge $0.30 per square foot to go from natural to a standard stain. It takes a bit more time to make sure you've sanded out the small scratches that typically wouldn't show up on a natural floor, but you're not adding an extra coat. You're simply applying stain instead of clear for the first coat. I could see if it was a small area and might require lots of samples but not 2000'. Maybe he's charging for the stain as a separate added operation and still applying the same number of surface coats. Or possibly he uses a better (ie more costly) crew to do the stain jobs. Or maybe I'm not charging enough!...See MoreWhite Stain on Unfinished Oak Cabinets
Comments (20)If the painters are done, I will go shoot a photo or two of our 1970's stained cabinets tomorrow. Since we redid the counters, actual granite, we had the painters take them down to wood (sealed unfortunately) restained and fresh finish. They actually look pretty good for apartments. In my own place I have always preferred white cabinets. For tenants, I want what will clean or hide their sins. At this property I have 48 units, 88 bathrooms, 120 bedrooms to deal with, plus the rental houses and thankfully no more frat house. And 20 years experience. Seal in the interiors of the cabinets too, especially the drawers. Stainless steel Top mount sinks, (moen faucets) in the bathrooms, order the all wood cabinets and buy a top you can top mount a replacement sink (moen single handle faucet) Check out HDsupplysolutions...See Morerhondakucera
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