Gel Stain on Two Arm Chairs and a Bloggy Break

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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.

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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”.

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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.