Good morning Debby! Thank you! I prefer staining wood also, but what we're doing here is applying what is called a Gel Coat Stain, it's more like paint than stain and the raised panels take a bit of time. Thank fully this is the only cabinet with raised panels that we have to stain. The new cabinets hubs is building will get an actual wiping stain put on them...that's much easier! We put stain on the new face frames last night. He went to town yesterday and bought the plywood that we need for the new cabinets and we cut them up on the table saw yesterday, so he will probably start putting at least the new sink cabinet together today. We need a raised panel for the cabinet he's building that will replace my desk, we will have to order that from the place that did all of our cabinet doors, we think they are still in business! It's slowly moving along!