Hi all,
Need some help with a question for staining a maple cabinet. My wife has a
certain color in mind and I need help figuring out how to replicate it. The
color she likes is on the floor of a Home Depot. It is a Kraftmaid cabinet
stained a color called Toffee. I am sure that this is some color unique to
this company (at least Minwax doesn't sell anything called Toffee). Without
having to buy every stain color on the market and testing it on many pieces
of Maple does anyone have any advice as to how I can go about figuring a way
to replicate this color on my cabinet?
Thanks in advance.
skeeter
ps Am a novice in this area so any other tips would be greatly appreciated.
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"Bob" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Unless you a dyed-in-the-wool Minwax fan, try ZAR! Quality seems as good as
>Minwax, their "sample" chart in the store shows each stain on a couple of
>different woods, i.e. pine and maple, or pine and oak! Worth a try!
Ever tried Prelude Wipe On? The stuff is awesome but hard to find. I only
know of one place in Houston that has it.
I ran into a similar problem with trying to match the stain on a piece of
maple furniture we purchased. I took a piece of maple to WoodCraft and they
let me wipe on any stain they had available to see how it would look. I
tried several stains on the same sample board (maple) right next to each
other. Someone suggested using the HomeDepot stain sample boards as a
reference. I wouldn't recommend this. Different species of wood will
respond differently to different types of stain. I think the sample boards
at homedepot are pine? The best approach is to try the stain on a sample of
your own wood.
"Skeeter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Need some help with a question for staining a maple cabinet. My wife has
a
> certain color in mind and I need help figuring out how to replicate it.
The
> color she likes is on the floor of a Home Depot. It is a Kraftmaid
cabinet
> stained a color called Toffee. I am sure that this is some color unique
to
> this company (at least Minwax doesn't sell anything called Toffee).
Without
> having to buy every stain color on the market and testing it on many
pieces
> of Maple does anyone have any advice as to how I can go about figuring a
way
> to replicate this color on my cabinet?
> Thanks in advance.
> skeeter
>
> ps Am a novice in this area so any other tips would be greatly
appreciated.
>
>