When decorating and colouring your wooden boxes, flower pots, and furniture it can be hard to know whether using wood stain or paint is the best course of action.
In this article, we are going to explore the best times to use paint and wood stain on your DIY wooden projects as well as find out if you can mix paint and wood stain successfully.
Wood staining can add depth and richness to your wooden projects bringing out the natural grains and knots in the wood whereas paint adds a layer of material on top of the wood, and you would usually not see the beauty of the natural wood.
What are wood stains?
There are two main types of wood stains, oil-based and water-based wood stains. Each comes in a variety of colours.
The difference between oil and water-based wood stains
Oil stains
These offer the deepest of colours and usually