What paint color will make oak woodwork look less orangey?
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All you need to do is a light sanding, prime and paint your choice of color, I would suggest white myself.
Walnut stain woodwork is nice with light walls. I just did 2 old book cases and it got rid of the yellow oak look without making it too dark. I could still see the grain. If you want something lighter or just different, consider a whitewash stain. Good luck.
I went to the Sherwin Williams site with the same question, they gave some great advise. Use a warmer tone around wood of any kind and avoid using oranges amber and yellows. If you really look at wood it isn't really brown like most of have grown to think. I used a colour called Agreeable Grey.
It's the stain that gives them that tinge. You can use a poly that has a stain in it and change the wood to a darker grain right over your existing finish. If you want lighter, you'll need to sand down to bare wood and use a clear water base polyurethane.
Any color without orange or yellow in it like cool gray, blue, white.
General Finishes puts out a good stain gel for this kind of project. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DT3QTY/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3DGSWGWUMSQ61&colid=1D0251IEIT41Q General Finishes Candlelite Gel Stain Quart. You can do a search on YouTube for "refinish oak cabinets with gel stain." Java is extremely dark if that is what you want. Candlelite is lighter, and many people like that, as well.
You can paint over almost anything providing you sand the object or use gloss remover, clean well, prime and then paint
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Would love to hear how it turns out for you.