Practical notes on cabinet refinishing, staining and clear finishes from Muñoz Refinishing.
The question is almost never about age. It is about what the boxes are made of and whether the doors still hang true — and you can check both yourself in about ten minutes.
Blotchy stain is almost never the stain's fault. It is the wood, and what was or was not done to it in the twenty minutes before the colour went on.
All three end up clear and shiny. What separates them is how they cure, what they do to the colour underneath, and what happens the first time somebody scrubs them.
A walk through the job from the inside — what comes off, what gets masked, where the dust goes, and which parts of your kitchen you cannot use while it happens.