Saturday, December 27, 2014

Purple Power

When it came time to stain our deck, we studied the paint samples at a few stores looking for the right color for us. We found a stain called "Merlot" that had that classic redwood stain color, but a touch of wine color to it. The sample looked nice. It would compliment a variety of siding colors when it comes time to re-side the house in a year or so.

Brought 3 cans of it home and cracked it open. Holy purple! Well, we both reasoned, it will dry darker and be a lot more muted after a day or 2...


Nope. Still full of purple pride a few days later.


Back to the store and came back with safe reliable "Walnut". Much better. :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said that stain was purple.
-Ben