Need light stain ideas

Research Min Wax.com for color choices.

You'll have to sand them down to restain them. Lots of color choices of stain, go to Lowes or Home Depot for the color swatches.

I need STAIN COLOR ideas. I know how to go to HD and Lowe's and look at swatches all day long. I know that I will need to strip the old stain off. I know that I can't restain directly on old stain. I need creative ideas/suggestions for a light stain color to put on my red oak species cabinets. I presently have golden/honey oak that is old and tired. I'm ready to restain a DIFFERENT color. My granite counters are dark thus I need light cabinets. Not painted -- but stained. Thanks!!

You can't stain a lighter color than the wood. I had yellow oak cabinets I stripped but had to go darker. Red oak would be worse. You could try the cabinets kits in white. They are at Lowe's and HD. My daughter did that over the oak . It will still look like wood but be white. Much prettier than paint.

You can buy colored stain online but its very expensive, find it at Unicorn spit and other sites.

Most of the stores don't tell you about sanding. The finer the grade of sandpaper like 400 and up the lighter the stain would be. The super fine sanding causes the wood to have a glass like effect (not porous enough to soak up the stain). With out pictures it is hard to say or understand exactly what you are after. Sometimes the varnish yellows with age and stripping that down could lighten your colors.. Also oil based varnishes have a tendency to dark the color, but water based ones don't change it

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Thanks for the encouragement!