Smokey hills is a rich graphite gray cabinet stain on maple with slightly warm undertones.
Best stain for maple kitchen cabinets.
Try using dyes such as transtint or transfast.
Because maple has such tight grain pigment type stains don t soak into the wood except where there is a spot with more open grain as you found out.
The stain did not take well on wood milled with the grain and on cross cuts the stain soaked into the wood giving a dark black color.
8 stunning stain colors for kitchen cabinets.
Brush on a wood conditioner if you are staining your maple cabinets.
This is a gorgeous deep and rich hue cooler and more gray than typical cabinet stain.
Maple is very tight grained and doesn t always absorb stain evenly.
We re sharing our best tips and a detailed step by step tutorial for staining cabinets or re staining your existing cabinetry.
Because the color is soft it looks very.
We ve pulled together lots of stain color inspiration and instructions for achieve a beautiful stain finish whether for your kitchen cabinets or other cabinetry in your home.
This lovely light and open space gets a custom touch with green washed kitchen cabinets.
There are other brands as well often marketed as aniline dyes.