Unfinished furniture: staining vs. painting?
March 25th, 2010 | 
Author: We purchased a lot of unfinished wood furniture for our home office. Basically desks, filing cabinets, drawers and large Storage Cabinets that will line 2 walls of the room. We have hardwood red oak floors in the room.
My question is, should we paint it or stain it? Originally we planned on staining it, but are having issues with doing that ourselves. I always thought painting wood furniture was only for junky old furniture you got at garage sales, but my husband thinks it might look nice.
Any opinions?
If the furniture is a nice hard wood, I would not paint it. If it’s pine, you can paint or stain. Remember if you plan on staining a soft wood like pine, use a pre-conditioner to prevent the soft wood from absorbing too much stain and coming out with a darker tone than you expect.
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If the furniture is a nice hard wood, I would not paint it. If it’s pine, you can paint or stain. Remember if you plan on staining a soft wood like pine, use a pre-conditioner to prevent the soft wood from absorbing too much stain and coming out with a darker tone than you expect.
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If you like the wood grain stain it , and apply a coat of varnish to it, it’s all a matter of taste ,you can even use both techniques if you like .
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I would stain it to see if you like the way it turns out. If you don’t, then you can paint over it, but if you paint it first – then you can’t stain it unless you strip the paint off and that’s a lot of work.
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