Stain Exposed Deck Lumber

protected as well so I've been going back and forth about what color do I paint stain uh this deck bottom part cuz keep in mind everything's going to be Cedar line there black metal roof we have already accent black here Brown top decking and then I thought it'd be a little weird to have more black um stain on the bottom plus when snow drips down the black colors just starts looking I don't know like kind of like a card that's dirty so I'm going to give it more of a camouflage and the solution that I came up with is at Home Depot I picked up this bare premium waterproof stain uh sealer and the color is Cedar nature Cedar nature Stone so hope ful it got it creates this more of like a calal kind of tone so it Blends in really well I'm going to give it a nice quick stir and start applying it with a brush all right change of plans did a test sample the color is absolutely terrible that looks orange to me let me get you guys in better light here what in the actual heck look at this that's just orange that's such an ugly color what do we doing folks as soon as I opened this can and I was like no way that does not look like that all right I got to go back in town go get something maybe a darker color maybe something will match the top of the deck better I'm glad I didn't even do a test run on on the deck itself cuz I would have had to sand it right off take to uh about kabat kabat kabat uh honey teak I they didn't have any samples in the store to see what it looks like I went to this little Mom and Pop's place down here uh so I had to Google it it looks like it's close to Natural with a hint of honey I'm guessing so far this looks promising already let's mix it up oh yeah this looks much more closer to Cedar and actually the look that we might be wanting to go with all right let's throw it on I might regret this at the end of the day all right I'll be honest I am not terribly excited about how it turned out I'm not super disappointed I'm I'm optimistic here's what I'm looking like so it's more orangish red why is is it so hard to find more of just like an actual tan color um the color combination between the brown the we'll call it Cedar color and the black really makes it look like it's a fall color from a distance it's it's a cool accent I I dig that I'm going to wait till it fades off overnight dries off see what it looks like before I really make up my mind but I'm also by the time we get to putting uh cedar boards across the you know the bump outs and The…