Retique It Liquid Wood Quart - Stainable Wood Fiber Paint Puts a Fresh Wood Coat (32oz Light)

This stuff is really cool. It dries to mimick a wood stain. Easy to use.

Normally I don't leave many reviews on products, but this stuff is truly amazing. We didn't want to purchase a new table and decided to try and redo the top of ours, and WOW. I absolutely love how it came out. We used a graining tool and it looks just like real wood. My husband and I were both skeptical but we love it!

I loved the way my project turned out. I didn't try to rush through it. I had white painted cabinets in the bathroom and I wanted a more natural wood look. New cabinets where just too expensive,and the cabinets themselves were good quality, so I thought I'd give this a try. What you see is: one coat of Retiqueit over the white paint,then I took a small stiff paint brush and pulled it through through the surface to get a slight grain look. I chose not to get the graining tool, because the grain was to large and won't look right the rest of the natural wood. I also show one picture of the retiqueit next to the natural wood. The door is thenatural wood and the cabinet is the Retiqueit. It is very close to the existing wood. The natural wood in the bathroom,I belive, is Alder wood. The Alder has a slight redish under tone, and the Retiqueit is a little warmer color than it looks like in the photo. I followed the steps as directed, I scuffed the surface, wiped it down with the water/alcohol mix, and let it dry a bit. I did not stain the cabinets, the color pictured is the lightwood color Retiqueit over white paint. That gave me the color I wanted.

Product has a learning curve. It’s verrrryyyy thin, and the edges must not have too much product or it is failure (see pic). I’d recommend several coats BEFORE the final coat with the wood grain tool to get the stain to take, and it does not take well!!!! Gel was a disaster and I strongly encourage you not go that route. It entirely covered my grain and I had to sand and entirely start over.Penetrating stain worked much better, but it was light. Several coats were required. I will say, it does look like wood. But I ended up having to start over two times between the edges looking low quality and the gel stain.In the first coats, long, smooth brush strokes. The final application where you use the wood grain tool, I would apply the product with a brush starting in the middle and and going out. When you use the wood grain tool, use long strokes as straight as possible. The wood grain tool creates grain anyway so it isn’t necessary to have the long strokes suggested, and it was a big mistake in my world.But the product itself is pretty amazing. It does look just like Wood. I was impressed. Wish it was thicker, but honestly it’s amazing what it did to particleboard.

Works surprisingly well.

UPDATED REVIEW: 10/28/22-UPDATE:::: I am VERY upset. I ordered the “light wood” over summer (June maybe) and it turned out beautifully. Very light colored natural white oak. I did my whole kitchen, as well as started my daughter’s bathroom. We’ll fast forward to me finishing up my daughters bathroom, I ordered more “light wood” IT IS SO DARK. And grey. It’s not a huge deal for little projects like this. But the stuff is expensive and if you plan on reordering, just know it may not be the same 2 colors. *see last image* the color on the right is the original color I got, on the left is the newest “light wood” I ordered. DISAPPOINTED.Original review: We bought an old farm house earlier this year, with plans to fully renovate on a budget.. getting new cabinet was not in the budget! I didn’t know where to start with getting these old red/orange undertone cabinets to the light white oak color I wanted.Retique it!!!!!!!! I will say, the product STINKS. Bad. Like being in a field of cow paddies. But it WORKS!! I also think, because you need a wood graining tool to use the product they should send one but just an opinion.

I'm so annoyed at how well this worked because of the on/off months I spent trying to remove old paint to get this table down to bare wood. Only to give up, find this wood paint, and not only have it look like wood but look better than the natural wood I was trying to sand down to. Stop wasting time and just buy it. It's what you're looking for. Trust me.