What have I gotten myself into!?

Wow, all the cabinets for the kitchen remodel look like a huge job!

Finishing the cabinets is the first step in the process. The cabinet faces and frames will all have to be sanded. Then stained. Then polyurethaned.

I originally thought I'd work all the cabinets together. Like sand them all, then stain them all, etc. But that is too much. There wouldn't be time to stain them all before the stain on the first one was dry. So, I'll just do a few at once I guess.

Anyway, first things first. Today I'm going to experiment with stain color on a piece of toekick. First try will be Minwax Red Chestnut with three topcoats of semi-gloss poly. On the cabinets I put in my office a couple years ago, I used Golden Pecan but had difficulty getting it dark enough on the veneered parts. So I'm trying a darker stain hoping I won't have to do a custom mix.

Will post pics when the stain samle is dry...