Gel Stain To Darken Cabinets

These varieties tend to absorb thin traditional stains unevenly looking messy and unfinished no.

Gel stain to darken cabinets. You may be wondering how to use gel stain on your cabinets like i did and become overwhelmed by all the tutorials out there. Apply the stain with a brush. Remove all the knobs and take apart any removable parts of the cabinets. 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.

Gel stain is particularly forgiving with splotch prone woods like birch cherry maple and pine. I used about half a quart of varathane gel stain by rustoleum in the color dark walnut. First remove the drawer faces and cabinet doors. In my case it was one door and three drawers.

Unlike other traditional stain gel stain sits on top of the wood rather than penetrating it hiding the previous stain color as well as some of the wood grain. With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining. Updating cabinets with gel stain step 1 clean the cabinets. Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish.

I watched youtube videos i read blogs and i realized that the results were spectacular and that very easily i could achieve this amazing dark java look.