We are in the process of redoing our kitchen. We had pickled oak cabinets with a glazed finish. I tried to sand them then restain then ourselves. After 5 hours on the two smallest doors I gave up. Raised panel doors with a lot of areas, very hard to sand. We opted to go with a company through Home Depot that cleans and refinishes cabinets. We went form the lighter color to a darker Cherry stain and they look assume. I am not sure what they can do with darker colors but when I got home the first day I was amazed at how they had cleaned our doors. Seventeen years of using a kitchen can really get things pretty grimy. It took them three days and cost $2,800 for what are essentially new looking cabinets. Granite comes this week, and backsplash after that and for $6,200 total we will have essentially a new kitchen. We have bought all stainless steel appliances over the past several years and they really pop now against the darker cabinets, something they really did not do with the lighter color.