Gel Stain on Two Arm Chairs and a Bloggy Break

Hello Everyone! 

When we built the farmhouse table for the kitchen, I decided to paint four of the cane back chairs white.  You can read about that here. 

 

I was however, undecided on whether or not to paint the matching two arm chairs white or possibly stain them a darker stain.

I have never really cared for the stain that was on the chairs to begin with and my intent was when I purchased them to either paint or re-stain them.  They had too much of an orange tone for my liking.

When Kathy at Creative Home Expression posted about using a Gel Stain product on two different furniture make-overs, I opted to give it a try on the two arm chairs.   You can read all about Kathy’s beautiful make-overs here and here.    

I  ordered the General Finishes Antique Walnut Gel Stain from Amazon and when it arrived I went to work. 

Check out the “Before and After”.

                 Before

After

 

What a difference, wouldn’t you say!   I did very little prep work before I applied the gel stain.  I lightly sanded the chairs before I applied the gel stain because I wanted to make sure that it would adhere to the chairs.   And of course I lightly sanded after because I wanted more of a distressed look to the chairs. 

General Finishes does have a website that offers helpful tips on how to use the gel stain.  In my opinion, it was easy to work with and I would definitely use it again.

Now if only it would COOL down just a tad bit so that I could work on making a cabinet using these doors.

I’ll be taking a little bloggy break but should be back sometime next week.   Enjoy your week and stay COOL! 

Gail