DIY Wood Stain

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE DIY WOOD STAIN

These homemade wood stains are inexpensive (like cost-you-pennies cheap), easy to make yourself, and easy to use without the strong smells of off-the-shelf stains. You can also customize the look of the stain with different pre-stain wood treatments (as shown in the video) so you can give the wood a beautiful dark stain or more of just an aged stain, depending on what you’d like for your project.

DIY Wood Stain Recipes

As we showed you in the video above, we mixed up 4 homemade wood stain recipes and tested each recipe with several homemade pre-stain wood conditioners straight from the kitchen pantry! The possibilities with homemade wood stains are so vast, you could mix and match all day to get just the color you want.
*Note that we tested these wood stains on inexpensive “whitewood” pine board scraps from our local home improvement stores. Different species of wood will react differently to these DIY stains, so test a board to get the right combination for the look you want.

DIY Wood Stain Recipe #1

Stain A: white vinegar + steel wool

DIY Wood Stain Recipe #2

Stain B: white vinegar + steel wool + instant coffee

DIY Wood Stain Recipe #3

Stain C: apple cider vinegar + steel wool

DIY Wood Stain Recipe #4

Stain D: apple cider vinegar + steel wool + paint

DIY Pre-Stain Wood Conditioners

As you can see in the video, we were really surprised to notice that the pre-stain application of white vinegar, apple cider vinegar, black tea, and coffee made more of an impact on the finished color than the makeup of the stain itself. (This might have changed had we left the stain to dissolve longer, but that’s an experiment for another time!)

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