Light Rustic Wood Stain

It s the perfect medium dark wood stain with golden highlights that show through the wood grain.

Light rustic wood stain.

Walnut mahogany cherry and an assortment of exotic species are naturally colored dark and even without stain can only be lightened to a certain degree ash maple oak pine birch fir and cedar are light in color and easier to lighten. 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. Stain your interior wood and protect it at the same time with interior wood stain. It think it looks even better when it s finished with an oil based polyurethane which really enhances the dark walnut color and the grain of the wood.

It is a light wood anyway. Today i ll be testing out a few stains weathered oak special walnut classic g. Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects. View all design series products.

Typical wood stains cause grain reversal because they color only the porous earlywood. Check out my online boutique on instagram. Carbon gray premium fast dry interior wood stain provides high quality color in 1 coat to enhance the natural beauty of interior wood surfaces. We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.

Pine is hard to stain for a couple of reasons. Second pine s surface is usually loaded with randomly occurring figure and super absorbent pockets that suck up stain and look. This post is sponsored by minwax. First its grain is unevenly dense.

When stain is applied to any species it typically darkens the wood. So we used a light golden pine stain to keep it natural looking but warm enough to create a nice contrast with the white washed walls. Carbon gray premium fast dry varathane 1 qt. 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.

2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. Minwax dark walnut was the first stain color that i fell in love with when i first started woodworking. All of the trim throughout our rustic cabin is knotty pine. They can t penetrate the dense latewood.

Minwax design series washes wood effects and waxes offer new options for bare wood and wood that s already stained. Even if the interior walls of your cabin are logs you can brighten them up a lot by white washing them as well.