stain over varnished oak cabinets - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

shovel · 07-08-2009, 08:27 PM

major problem stripped varnished oak kitchen cabinets to bare oak. Stained them again with darker stain then varathaned them, looked good. The doors and drawers were off, stained them and varathaned them in garage. (set up benches) Now here is the problem, the doors are alot darker, alot darker then cabinets. Same amount of coats. Doors are real oak, the cabinets are combination of oak plywood and real oak. Now the kitchen looks terrible, I mean terrible. What is my easy way out of this one.? I know i stripped them before to bare oak and that was right they to do but am I gonna have to strip either doors or cabinets again? Please help!!!

ModernStyle · 07-08-2009, 08:37 PM

You could sand them up a little and try to dry brush them to see if you can get them darker

shovel · 07-08-2009, 08:44 PM

Can I on top of tha cabinets now that they are varathaned with clear oil based satin top coat

ModernStyle · 07-08-2009, 08:52 PM

I would use whatever you used the first time.
I have never done this with cabinets but when I did new residential I would sometimes have a door or something that came out light. I would just roung it slightly with a fine paper, then dry brush it untill I thought it looked ok, then after letting it set for a few days so the stain would dry I would respray it, but I normally used laquer back then, I am not sure how well a different product would want to stick to the other product. Leo G would probably be the person to ask, he is the expert on wood finishing. You should have posted this in another area to get it noticed better.

jeffsko · 08-19-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by shovel

Can I on top of tha cabinets now that they are varathaned with clear oil based satin top coat

Try Polyshades by Minwax. It is a combination of stain and polyurethane.