How To Finish Cherry Kitchen Cabinets

Picking the best stain.

How to finish cherry kitchen cabinets. Lightly sand all surfaces to be stained. The spray with the same finish as the rest of the woodwork. Although cherry needs no stain to bring out its beauty cabinetmakers often add stain to tone. Make your own glaze by mixing burnt umber artists oil color and liquid glazing medium into a medium bodied paste.

Sand with a fine grit sponge between coats of sealer we used polyurethane and vacuum off the dust. As your cabinets continue to darken with age a glazed finish will also ensure that the natural characteristics of the cherry shine through. Seal the surface with dewaxed shellac see sources below. For this lacquered sample i covered the right end of the wood to block the sunlight and left the rest exposed.

Remove the cabinet hardware. Cherry kitchen cabinets are a favorite because of their warm tones and rich look. On cherry a single thin coat 2 lb. Cherry tends to have predominantly red undertones.

Take the doors off the cabinets and remove the hinges and any knobs or pulls. Sun tanned cherry to give the aging process darkening the wood s natural color a head start you can expose the wood to sunlight. Use a prestain conditioner on pine cherry and birch to help even out blotchiness. Most cabinets today come with cup.

It doesn t matter how. However it can range in color from pale yellow to deep brown. Prepare the work area and rags. Cover the sealed surface with glaze.

He covers the basics and walks through a couple of the most common cherry specific methods in detail. Apply a pre stain conditioner. Stain and seal the cabinet doors and drawer fronts. The texture of cherry wood is smooth and satiny which allows it to accept stain beautifully.

Unlike other hardwoods cherry. Remove the sanding dust. How to restore natural cherry cabinets going for the grain. The glaze will coat and protect the darker stain placed on your cabinets and seal that beautiful rich color.

Overhead and full sizes cabinets were laminated in cherry wood to match the flooring finish while the base cabinets including the kitchen island s uses a dark oak wood finish. Woodworkers prize cherry for its subtle yet complex grain patterns. To help tone down and neutralize the seemingly clashing combination of wood finishes white granite was used on the countertop and the backsplash creating a neutral colored surface in between.