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.
Light grey grey stained oak cabinets.
Stripping to bare wood beyond hugely labor intensive will make the gray go over the raw pink nature of red oak so you get a pink gray more kin to the 80 s pink whitewash g technique than the current fad of gray stain.
You can also refinish the inside of the drawers and backs of the doors if you want but.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
Dark espresso medium walnut cherry red toned and light yellow or orange toned oak maple.
Each stain has an undertone of it s own just like paint colors.
General finishes gray gel stain.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
The cabinet stain color is custom with a gray washed finish.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
Leave the cabinets natural for a soft honey color.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
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.
A cabinet maker should be able to replicate this look if you show this picture to them.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.