I have an oak boos butcher block island countertop that I have been oiling for
many years. Now have darker cherry flooring and would like the butcher block
to be more of a similar shade. What is the best way to go about this?
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On 4/15/2018 2:14 PM, Deb Alberts wrote:
> I have an oak boos butcher block island countertop that I have been
> oiling for
> many years. Now have darker cherry flooring and would like the butcher
> block
> to be more of a similar shade. What is the best way to go about this?
>
You can enjoy the contrast or do this:
http://www.formica.com/en/us/products/formica-laminate/07759
I think any sanding and staining will just look ugly in the end.
On 4/15/2018 4:50 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/15/2018 2:14 PM, Deb Alberts wrote:
>> I have an oak boos butcher block island countertop that I have been
>> oiling for
>> many years. Now have darker cherry flooring and would like the
>> butcher block
>> to be more of a similar shade. What is the best way to go about this?
>>
>
> You can enjoy the contrast or do this:
> http://www.formica.com/en/us/products/formica-laminate/07759
>
> I think any sanding and staining will just look ugly in the end.
>
I didn't check, Ed. Do you think that maybe they make that in an end
grain pattern? ;)
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:50:54 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/15/2018 2:14 PM, Deb Alberts wrote:
>> I have an oak boos butcher block island countertop that I have been
>> oiling for
>> many years. Now have darker cherry flooring and would like the butcher
>> block
>> to be more of a similar shade. What is the best way to go about this?
>>
>
>You can enjoy the contrast or do this:
>http://www.formica.com/en/us/products/formica-laminate/07759
>
>I think any sanding and staining will just look ugly in the end.
>
You would cover butcher block? But with it well oiled how well would
contact cement work over time? Put in a nice contrasting quartz maybe.
Or did I miss a smiley somewhere?
But then finding a food safe stain, getting it prepped with it being
consistently oiled, no quick fixes I can think of.
On 4/15/2018 1:14 PM, Deb Alberts wrote:
> I have an oak boos butcher block island countertop that I have been
> oiling for
> many years. Now have darker cherry flooring and would like the butcher
> block
> to be more of a similar shade. What is the best way to go about this?
paint it.
Oak will never "look like cherry"; the only thing you can do is darken
it but the grain/texture will never look like anything but oak.
Since it's already been finished, nothing will be "taken up" but the
wood to any extent unless take the top down to a raw wood surface again;
and since it's end grain, probably that will mean at _least_ a full 32nd
if not more...
IOW, fuhgeddaboutit...ain't agonna' happen if you have to ask how...
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