Here you can see it on the left in the dining room. It's very plain. This pic was before we got the second door for it. We are bad Ikea shoppers, people! We accidentally got a white door and a black-brown door for it. We actually went back to Ikea TWICE for this because we bought the wrong color one time and the wrong style another time.
So I bought some inexpensive 2 3/4" crown moulding at ACE Hardware. I wanted to spruce it up a little.
Once that was installed, I needed to stain it. I tried Minwax in the color Jacobean, a dark brown stain. I did two coats of that, but it wasn't dark enough. It also was browner than the bookcase color.
So I did something possibly stupid, not sure since I don't if you're supposed to mix stain and paint, but I rubbed on a coat of Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations bond coat in the color Tudor (a dark brown with a purply undertone). This stuff is paint but feels like a gel stain. I used a small foam brush.
Then it wasn't dark enough, so I used the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations bond coat in black and rubbed that in with a foam brush.
VOILA! Perfect. Then I added a coat of polyurethane to protect it:
I am so proud of it! It just looks like a dark stain, not at all like a paint. It turned out like this (some pics are with flash, some aren't):
It should be noted that the type of wood you use will take stain differently. It may absorb more or less. We think the type of wood the crown moulding is made out of is pine.
I added some acrylic knobs bought at Home Depot to add more pizzazz.
Here's a view of the whole dining room now:
Funny . i love the brown black effect of I kea as well. i am using Transfortaions Kona as it is black with a slight brown under tone . with your experimenting is the Mini wax stain still nessecary ?
ReplyDeleteI haven't used the Rustoleum Transformations in Kona yet, but it does look like the black-brown color of Ikea's furniture. I know my color Tudor is slighter lighter than Kona. Tudor definitely has a slight tinge of purple, so Kona may also have this undertone. I know I needed that to match the Billy black-brown. The problem with using just the Kona may be that it does look like a paint, not a stain, when you're done. It is worth a try, but you may not achieve the stained look you want. Just my two cents' worth.
ReplyDeleteI want to paint the wine shelf to match the brown-black of cabinets. Thinking I'll have to spray it. How did the Kona turn out? Pictures??
ReplyDeleteI don't have the color Kona, but it may match. However, it may end up looking like a paint, instead of a stain. The Ikea black-brown looks like a stain, not a paint.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! To clarify, is it a combination of all those products that gave you the final result, or just the last rustoleum product?
ReplyDeleteGina, right, it's a combination of all the things I used above that gave me the final result.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, Ikea actually sold Brown/Black stain that matched their furniture.
ReplyDeleteThere is a section of my kitchen where I would like to add more cabinets. I was thinking of using the Tudor on my exhausting cabinets & was wondering if Ikea's black cabinets will match the color?
ReplyDeleteHi Angela, thanks for your comment. No, the Tudor color will not match the Ikea black-brown. As seen in the above-post, it took a bunch of mixing different things (like the Min-Wax stains in two different colors and the Tudor) to match the Ikea black-brown.
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