Help! White Oak Cabinet Stain?
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I need photos of your stained rift sawn white oak cabinets! Please? :)
Comments (9)Linelle: your description perfectly captures the difference between my sample and what I'm looking for! My sample is flat and lifeless. What I want is for the wood to look rich and alive. The example I chose may be red oak. I know white oak can be just as lively as red oak though. There are plenty of QS white oak photos that look rich and full of figure. It's the rift white oak that I cannot find good photos of! ILoveRed: I have seen the photo of the tall cabinets in the first kitchen and it is gorgeous! It doesn't show the detail of the wood as clearly as I need but I'll add it to my photos. The second kitchen you found has some really good photos. Thanks so much for finding that for me! omelet: I'm not an expert either but I agree with you - the cut determines the figure of the wood more than the finish. But take a look at the figure on the unstained backside of my sample door: Unstained, it has a lot of wonderful richness and unexpected fleck in too. If they didn't leave the backside unstained I would have never known that RS white oak could look so lively and have such lovely figure. In one of my other threads, we seem to have figured out that they used a mix of woods and cuts on this sample door. The side rails look like RS white oak, top and bottom rails QS white oak and center panel is plain sawn red oak. That's a fantastic suggestion to post on the flooring forum! Off I go......See MoreHelp! red oak floors pink and white oak cabinets going in
Comments (32)We went with Jacobean/Special Walnut mix and I love the color…so much better than the first. It was almost worth all the frustration, moving in and out of the house multiple times and having no furniture down for almost 2 months…I said almost LOL! Thanks everyone for the advice and hopefully someone learns from my mistake....See MoreHelp! - Custom stain for quarter sawn white oak
Comments (10)I've worked with a lot of white oak. I even matched a piece of it to match my flooring (that we put on the ceiling around the skylight. ) I had to use white oak trim around the skylight and needed to match it to the flooring. similar to yours I think it's pretty darn close! I used General Finishes stains and played around w/custom mixing a few colors. To cancel out the pink in your wood, I'd go w/more of a green base, or ash color. Who is the finisher on these cabinets? I'm surprised he can't come up w/a custom stain to work w/those floors. That's his job, no?...See MoreKitchen cabinets-Quarter sawn white oak stain
Comments (8)Thank you.. I love the contrast with the darker oak cabinets and lighter flooring in the pic above but our kitchen is small so we are trying to go lighter. We are flying solo on the flooring We have reputable cabinet maker who will create anything we ask for and has given us design ideas. We are turning our penisula into an island and swapping fridge and oven to allow for a range hood. In order to do this we are pushing the kitchen into an adjoing room with a fireplace and building in a beverage center to tie in with the kitchen (see old kitchen photos below) the new flooring will span the entire first floor....See MoreMarissa Goodbody
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