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.
Leave the cabinets natural for a soft honey color.
You can also refinish the inside of the drawers and backs of the doors if you want but.
For the lightest color on oak do not add stain at all.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
To get what you want you have to start with a.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Each stain has an undertone of it s own just like paint colors.
Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored.
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.
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.
Dark espresso medium walnut cherry red toned and light yellow or orange toned oak maple.
This cabinet looks great with the marble looking quartz countertop and slab backsplash.
Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
The cabinet stain color is custom with a gray washed finish.