Can I Gel Stain Laminate Cabinets

This is a more detailed video than my last one on how to gel stain your kitchen cabinets.

Can i gel stain laminate cabinets.

Sorry that it s so long but i wanted to make sure i covered as mu. You could choose to use minwax. Don t apply too thickly. With gel stain you don t have this problem because the wood doesn t absorb the stain.

It will appear streaky. Because it sits on top it masks the grain of the wood especially if you pick a dark color. Beginning with the backside of the cabinet coat each cabinet lightly with the gel stain using an old cloth or foam brush. Lay out the cabinets over a set of newspapers or scrap paper and prepare to stain them.

Laminate is very smooth and shiny so you must sand or the paint and the gel stain won t stick. They weren t awful i did live with them for many years like this and was content until the idea of mixing it up came to the forefront. You can buy unfinished cabinets and stain them yourself or strip and refinish existing wood cabinetry. Apply gel stain i decided to stain the drawers and paint the body to match the.

You re going to be amazed at the difference a little java gel stain can accomplish. A laminate stain can be a gel or tinted polyurethane. Fortunately for those with laminate cabinets gel stain works well on a variety of surfaces other than real wood allowing you to stain your cabinets without leaving them a streaky splotchy mess. Customers have reported the successful use of gel products over laminate surfaces.

When using gel stain even though no uneven spots. In most cases you ll simply need to coat a paintbrush in laminate stain and apply the stain coating evenly to the surface of the cabinet itself. Do not remove the stain treat it like a paint. The gel will cover up the wood grain that is in the plastic while the tinted polyurethane will allow the faux grain look to show through.

Gel stains as all wood stains were formulated to go over raw wood which has an open surface and can absorb some of the stain. Otherwise the laminate will just sit in a sticky layer on top of the laminate and be tacky each time you go to open the cabinet. Lightly sand the laminate with 150 grit sandpaper.