Giving your home a perfect color palette goes beyond paint.
Gel stain colors for kitchen cabinets.
I decided to paint our kitchen cabinets.
Gel stain dries pretty quickly so work on one door drawer or section of cabinet at a time.
Step 5 apply the gel stain using an clean rag we cut up an old t shirt apply the gel stain to the cabinet door.
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The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid.
Pre installed cabinets will suffer fewer drips drops and messes when you re working with the peanut buttery consistency of gel stain as opposed to the thin liquid you d be dealing with.
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.
Easy to use general finishes gel stain is undoubtedly the best gel stain brand as it involves little prep and produces high quality results.
With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining.
Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish.
Instead i plan to paint them white which is a project for this spring.
Really work it into the grooves of the wood and make sure you apply it all over.
With kitchen renovations costing thousands of dollars this gel stain is about 30 for a quart a quart goes a long way.