Updating Honey Oak Cabinets
Wall color paint a color that neutralizes the honey tone in cabinets.
Updating honey oak cabinets. Home diy home ideas 9 different ways getting rid of honey oak can modernize your home gain inspiration with these painted and stained oak projects that will help love your home again. Unlike paint liming cabinets using something like this liming wax from briwax lets some of the wood grain show through but tones down the honey color you see on so much 80s oak cabinetry. Hardware use black knobs drawer pulls. Window treatments remove valances replace w wreaths.
How to make oak kitchen cabinets look modern. How to update oak cabinets without painting them. Replace antique brass pulls with something stainless and you ve got yourself an update. There are lots of staining options for your floor and kitchen cabinets.
Feb 16 2019 explore lesa helweg s board updating oak cabinets on pinterest. We repurposed the hardware from our st. In this list we will show you 9 different projects we have done in our home to help get rid of that honey oak ultimately this allowed us to cheaply modernize and update our home. I considered liming them with wax but after a ride on the trolley i decided to embrace them.
And yes i m labelling but i come. See more ideas about kitchen redo kitchen remodel diy kitchen. Here are 4 steps to a fresh look to your kitchen whilst keeping your old honey oak. First you always have the option to stain your oak with a more modern tone or neutralize it with a natural stain that doesn t have the orange yellow tone that was so dominant in the past.
Painting our oak cabinets wasn t an option because it s costly and time consuming. Honey oak cabinets from 1972. How to update your outdated wood cabinets oak cabinets you love em if you re a man or hate em if you re a woman. There are two ways of tackling your cabinets orange undertones counterbalance.
Louis kitchen making it feel classic and up to date. How to update honey oak cabinets. Backsplash avoid bright white tile against most wood tones. The only reason we are leaning away from painting is that the kitchen and the rest of the house has the same honey oak wood trim baseboards stairs etc.
Honey oak cabinets can be given new life with a simple splash of color.