Kitchen cabinets are an important investment ... Like all trends, cabinet styles change over time. The groovy dark-stained oak cabinets I built in the late 1980s are not exactly stylish today.

But how do you keep that classic feel while giving your kitchen a fresh, modern look? The key is choosing the right stain ... white oak. “It’s an ideal bridge between light and dark.

It is a much more challenging process to strip and refinish oak cabinets with stain in the future. But what if you have ...