We bought our house 3 years ago and the kitchen was oak cabinets oak floors oak trim cream granite.
Updating kitchen with honey oak cabinets.
Make your oak cabinets feel modern and fresh with these easy diy ideas.
We completely made over the space for pennies by painting the cabinets adding crown under cabinet molding.
Updating a kitchen with oak cabinets.
This is hands down the single best article i ve read for updating my kitchen.
My cabinets are high quality but i hate the honey oak finish.
So the tip for the wax and adding dark hardware is worth its weight in gold.
But now that orangey look is a bit outdated.
Honey oak cabinets were so popular in the 90s.
Replace antique brass pulls with something stainless and you ve got yourself an update.
You had to see this one coming painting your oak cabinets is a great way to update and modernize them.
Using unified decor with a consistent colour palette can really help update a kitchen or bathroom with oak cabinets.
One way to really update your kitchen even with those honey oak cabinets is to paint it.
How to update your kitchen on a budget.
I have no hardware on mine either.
After living with it for a year i couldn t t take it anymore.
You just saved me countless hours and dollars for my kitchen update.
The more colours and metal finishes you add the more cluttered it can make the room look.
Tips and tricks to update dated oak kitchen cabinets without painting them.
Black white cream and gray home decor neutrals and simple classic colours are a great way to update wood cabinets.
If you had honey oak cabinets you had arrived.
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.
The room nearly glowed orange.
Oak cabinet update idea.
And if you are interested in a farmhouse look you know white is the wall color of choice.
Honey oak cabinets from 1972.
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.