How to Upgrade Dated Honey Oak Cabinets
We needed to update the outdated kitchen in our cabin. These honey oak cabinets and gold hardware needed to go! We didn’t want to spend a lot to money or time (aka didn’t want to have to replace the cabinets, or remove and paint all of the doors), so we decided to stain them. This was such a cheap and quick way to update the kitchen without breaking the bank!
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What we used:
Wood stain
Steel wool
Updated hardware
Step 1: Remove hardware and “scuff”
After taking off the horrible hardware, we scuffed up the doors with steel wool. Again, we didn’t even take the doors off the hinges, which saved so much time and headache!
Step 2: Stain
Next we stained the doors with a darker wood stain. You could also choose to white wash them if you want! This was so much easier than painting because it didn’t need to be perfect, and it only took one coat!
Step 3: Replace hardware
Finally we replaced the gold hardware with some more modern silver pulls. It’s amazing what a difference hardware alone can make!
To finish off our updates in the kitchen, we painted the trim white, updated the light fixtures, and removed the dated window treatments.
We are SO happy with the results! It just took a little stain to remove that harsh yellow from our dated honey oak cabinets, and its a whole new kitchen!! We found this to be much easier and faster than painting the cabinets. Its amazing what some stain/paint can do for a space!
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I think the kitchen still looks woody and out of date. Painting the wood a bright color would have perked up the kitchen and modernized the kitchen immensely..
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Clearing the counters, new light and curtains really add to the transformation.
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