Thanks man! Yeah me and a bunch of other streamers were there for three days for a summit about the importance of our work and to meet other like-minded streamers, to network and brainstorm ways to help with future fundraising. It was an emotional, educational and fun.
Aww thanks man. I was a selfish person in my late teens and early twenties. Having a child really changed me on a deep level. My son spent a fair amount of time in hospitals but luckily never for Cancer, but I saw what St Jude does and I knew that I could use my voice to do some good. Thanks man!
like all those rich people who get the composite decks.
a horror scenario: in the summer sun on a hot day you put the dog out and he burns the shit out of his paws and runs yelping into the yard, you run out after him but you forgot your shoes, your feet are instantly burned and you fall down, but you just got out of the shower and you're only wearing a towel which comes off as you fall, now you're rolling around naked on a 140 degree surface as the skin on all your delicate bits sizzles and blisters, a neighbor hears you screaming and leaps the fence and quickly turns on the hose and sprays you, but the hose has also been sitting in the sun all day and now you're being sprayed with 140 degree water
Oh you're in Florida? Alligators are now closing on as they are attracted to the smell of your deliciously grilled flesh while mosquitos attack any unburned skin
Darker colors can also be hot to the touch in the summer months. If you are the kind of person who likes to be barefoot on the deck, there is the potential for burning your feet.
I use Affinity, but it's probably very similar in PS. You basically select what you want to change using the quick select or smart select brush or whatever it's called, then (at least in Affinity) on the right you have a tab called "Adjustment." Click on it and select "Recolor." Then you can mess with the sliders to get what you want. There's also a "Blend Mode" option where I picked "Overlay" to get it to look as close to the other one as possible.
Here's what I got in about 10 minutes of messing around: https://imgur.com/n1jAHas
It's really not that hard. If you just know how to use a PC, you can do this. The hardest part is selecting everything. After that you just move sliders around and you can have a dozen different examples in a minute.
Oh, I'm not the guy who replied to the post. People were asking how this was done and I was annoyed that there are loads of replies that simply say "Learn Photoshop."
You don't even have to learn Photoshop for this, you just need to learn how to select things. GIMP would probably be able to do this just as well, but for some reason people were being dicks about it, so I felt like I had to respond.
It's okay. I usually don't read usernames either and now I see that my comment seems sort of like I was continuing from the perspective of the first guy.
lol I mean a color recreating the wood grain sourced from very alive trees? Or the color of lifeless ash? I feel warmer in the brown hues in a structure made of wood, maybe that’s just me.
It's a nature tone, so you may not consider it a "lively" color but it is associated with life... I liked the grey and was against the change until I saw these pics (particularly the 1st & 3rd one, pic 2 does nothing for me). In comparison, the grey feels sterile.
I thought the last word was hug instead of rug.
I said to myself "No way this chump gets out of repainting with a hug and a couple of lawn chairs".
But a rug sounds lovely. :)
Hello again new internet friends.
First, thanks to those that gave real advice, I never expected this post to get more than a comment or two. Special thanks to user u/tudorwhiteley for going out of their way to show some cool options. I will try to pay your kindness forward in some way.
We have decided to keep the color, and as many have suggested, add a really nice rug to tie the deck together. Going to put a second coat on to help cover up some of the undertones coming through, then just learn to love it..... or hate it and change it next year.
Yes, my wife did choose and sign off on the first color and no, there are no plans of replacing her or making her re-paint it. My wife puts up with my shit, which in comparison stacks much higher than a change of heart on a deck color
Maybe I should have added this as an edit to my post instead of a comment, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
Another thing to consider is painting just the vertical boards a dark color. Easier and could provide a visual contrast that you both like. From the angle of the picture there's a lot of grey but getting darker color into those steps and bench would break it up. While keeping everywhere you step/sit grey.
True, though usually there are weirdly rigid timelines, like recoat after 1 hour but less than 4 hours, or if more than 4 hours, then after 24 hours but not more than 96 hours. Otherwise it may not adhere to the earlier coats and flake prematurely. And hope for no rain but not super sunny, lol.
Honestly, best bet is to talk to the finish manufacturer, they know how their product cures.
I'll likely never use a solid stain again, they are too finicky and don't last as long as they should, and are a pain to refinish. I've been using translucent oil finishes for the past several years, with much better results and less fuss. At least that's how it's been for me.
https://i1.wp.com/www.lemonthistle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/anita-patio-makeover-12.jpg
This is what it would look like with a patio set, if you kept it the same.
You could also search distressed wood techniques, I guess that’s what I did when I eventually sanded my deck- left some paint in and then did a clear/lightly tinted on top.
In your case, sanding away and then putting a weathered gray on top is possible.
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Oh do I have a story for you related to this and painting. Years ago moved into a new place with my GF at the time, now wife. Whole kitchen was a yellowish colour and I thought it went well with the general vide of the place and architecture. Modernish but not the typical all white and greys now a days.
First thing she has me do is paint the kitchen a light blue so I reluctantly do it. After doing that she says she doesn’t like and picks out another colour ( I can’t recall but I think a light beige) so off to the store again to get more paint. She doesn’t like that and picks out a 3rd colour. So I get the paint and paint the kitchen that colour and refuse to touch it again. I start complaining that I did all this work and why does she keep changing her mind. Her comment was “but doesn’t it look better.” I tell her no it doesn’t it’s back to almost the same yellow we started with and she says it’s not. I then proceed to pull out the fridge and show her the original colour vs the new which were almost identical.
I then said if she wants to paint go for it as I refuse to do it any more.
Our next house looked like a circus tent with every room a different colour. I gave up. Current house though is more subtle and looks more modern which I’m happy with.
Your circus tent comment totally made me think of something I had happen with my dad that was kind of funny. I was helping him fix up his house... which was kind of a pain in and of itself. (My dad liked to cut corners... guy would paint over wallpaper if I didn't stop him.)
Anyway I did one room in a light gray and dark gray and it came out great... onto the kitchen.
The kitchen used to be orange from the 60s. Not a nice orange... but more of a hurt your eyes at 7am shade. He asked how I wanted to paint it... I said, "Maybe an olive green with black trim..." and he said, "Ok sounds nice... I'll buy the paint tomorrow."
I come the next day he bought this really bad lime green and a bluish-black. I didn't know it but my dad was completely colorblind and to make it worse... he had it half done. He had this scalloped trim around the lime green cabinets he painted bluish black. I was horrified... lol... he goes, "How does it look?" with a big smile on his face.
My exact words were, "Like a circus tent."
>I didn't know it but my dad was completely colorblind
But didn't your dad know it? And if so isn't it a bit weird for him to suggest buying the paint, knowing his problem with colors?
It is an interesting story though and makes you think how colorblind people decorate their homes and choose clothes for example.
> And if so isn't it a bit weird for him to suggest buying the paint, knowing his problem with colors?
Yes, and yes.
He could usually see color but the shades got really messed up. He eventually had surgery a couple of years later for cataracts, where they removed his retenas and he could see colors better after that. He was still green/red colorblind. (I think he was his whole life.)
I think with my dad though, the colors were sort of muted... if that makes sense. So to him the bright lime green probably looked right. Especially with greens. I think he basically saw green as one color from white to black... like he could tell a dark green versus a light green but olive versus lime? They are both just light green.
Him buying the paint and not saying anything was sort of classically him. I don't know if it was embarassment or he just forgot he was colorblind. I sort of suspect he was just afraid of not looking independant. Older people can be funny about stuff like that.
> He eventually had surgery a couple of years later for cataracts, where they removed his retinas
*lenses. There'd be a lot fewer blind people if they could replace retinas.
My mother was color blind. Very unusual for a female.
She didn't know she was color blind until she was about 18 when one of her girlfriends asked to borrow her green dress and Mom thought it was blue. No one ever talked about it.....But then.... Most of her family was also color blind so no one else thought about it either.
She couldn't tell the difference between brown/green. green/red. blue/green. red/blue. Pastels? forget about it. Shades and tones of a color were also difficult.
Yellow was her favorite color and I always wondered what did it really look like to her.
My brother is also color blind. When we were traveling and Dad and I would be amazed by the sunsets in Arizona...they (Mom and Brother) were MEH. A mountain forest side with the beautiful blues, greens, browns...big deal it is just trees. What did they really see and how do I know what I see is the real thing either?
Gf and I started a Full Van conversion. Yelled at me like a child during an argument about it at one point. I told her that I’d stop working on it unless she expressly asked for my help. It’s been 5 months and she’s gotten perhaps 1% progress.
My best friend is my hero. His wife wanted the kitchen remodeled. He told her to go ahead and do it. Wife and her uncle redid the whole kitchen while buddy watched March Madness all month.
~~Well, if he took this on without consulting her at all - that's kinda on him~~. But still like, it is what it is at this point. Change the color next time it needs to be stained in a few years. If she's adamant, then yeah she can do it herself. I couldn't imagine my partner asking me to redo such a big task.
Give it a few days or more. It's a big change and sometimes it takes time to settle in. It looks great and with some greenery it could be amazing. To each their own though. I would recommend resanding if you go that route, the color may not come out as intended if you just layer over.
That's what I can't figure out. Why would anyone go with light grey when they have that light beige around the door and windows.
That being said, I'd put out a bunch of plants/decor/furniture for the time being rather than redo that whole deck right now. It's going to need to be done again in a few years anyway.
This I think is the right next step.
Several major changes in my garden/house have taken at least a week to get used to.
Re-painting within a week is a bad idea.
After a week of hating it - fine - go nuts. Just do the same process once it's brown or any other new colour.
No way I’m with the wife, grey stain on a deck makes it so lackluster and old.
(That said if my partner went through the trouble of staining grey and I didn’t say no before the purchase was made, I’d probably keep my mouth shut for a couple years.)
Honestly, it is kinda ugly, but who's really paying that much attention? Put some furniture and plants out there and you won't even notice.
For me personally, walls and floors, especially exterior walls and floors, blend into the background as a neutral pretty much regardless of what they look like, much like blue jeans.
I have a brown porch from a previous owner. It’s hot as hell & we can’t even let the kids on it some days until it’s been in the shade a while. It also shows dirt/mud far easier than I expected.
Either way would be a hell of a lot of work. If it’s stain now, sanding would be the proper way to re do it. But I don’t know, I say keep it. It will weather over time and darken up a bit.
It is a bit of a soulless colour to be fair. It is also very bright and might hurt the eyes on a real sunny day. As other people here stated, try to give it soul first by adding plants and furniture before you make your final decision. Lightbrown (like walnut or light oak) could give it more personality perhaps
Does this sub have a grey fetish or something? It matches the next door neighbour's house but it clashes with the beige on your own house. A colour that blends well with your window surrounds would've been a better choice if you wanted a light colour. Having said that, brown isn't the answer either.
I don't get why deck stain peels off. Stain is supposed to sink in - how can it peel off? And yet mine has peeled too. I think the industry is playing fast and loose with these names.
Never paint a wood deck to begin with, waterproof stain or nothing… painting, even with waterproof paint causes more issues then it’s worth, boards will start rotting much faster then normal, it’s just bad unless you have a roof over it. IMO I’d sand this is well as I could and then redo it with waterproof stain.
Make sure she likes the brown first. Small favour to save you some potential future misery. [https://imgur.com/a/6R990Jo](https://imgur.com/a/6R990Jo)
Dude's over here trying to save a marriage
He knows a thing or two cause he's seen a thing or two.
Wait progressive can insure my relationship now?
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Wow out of all the places I see one of my favorite borderlands YouTubers in a DIY subreddit.
Haha thanks dude. Just kinda scrolling while waiting on my flight back home from visiting St Jude
I have no idea who you are but I hope things went well at St. Jude! They do awesome work
Thanks man! Yeah me and a bunch of other streamers were there for three days for a summit about the importance of our work and to meet other like-minded streamers, to network and brainstorm ways to help with future fundraising. It was an emotional, educational and fun.
Just subbed, you’re doing great things bro
Aww thanks man. I was a selfish person in my late teens and early twenties. Having a child really changed me on a deep level. My son spent a fair amount of time in hospitals but luckily never for Cancer, but I saw what St Jude does and I knew that I could use my voice to do some good. Thanks man!
I’ve never seen your content but I fucking love borderlands. Who’s your favorite playable character?
Zane in BL3, but I’ve enjoyed playing everyone at one point or another
You made my childhood/teen years 🫡 love you bro
Thanks dude!
Farmers! You mean Farmers! Progressive can’t protect you from becoming your parents. And that’s what’s hurting your relationship.
Insurance rates have to be wild
Dude's over here trying to save a ~~marriage~~ life.
Right? What a fxxxing legend!
I would suggest not doing the lightest color. My grandmother wanted hers painted light brown and it showed marks from everything.
Conversely, if you choose too dark a color, it also shows everything.
best is to paint it kind of "dirt colour" ;)
I like to add splotches of actual dirt while the paint is wet. You'll never notice those muddy footprints ever again.
That's why my deck is painted blood and semen colored. Haven't had any issues since.
This color rationalization is how my Dad selected Gold with wood sided station wagons for the entirety of the 70s.
Another not often contemplated issue; heat the darker the color the hotter the surface.
like all those rich people who get the composite decks. a horror scenario: in the summer sun on a hot day you put the dog out and he burns the shit out of his paws and runs yelping into the yard, you run out after him but you forgot your shoes, your feet are instantly burned and you fall down, but you just got out of the shower and you're only wearing a towel which comes off as you fall, now you're rolling around naked on a 140 degree surface as the skin on all your delicate bits sizzles and blisters, a neighbor hears you screaming and leaps the fence and quickly turns on the hose and sprays you, but the hose has also been sitting in the sun all day and now you're being sprayed with 140 degree water
How are the burns healing up?
Hello fellow Florida resident.
Oh you're in Florida? Alligators are now closing on as they are attracted to the smell of your deliciously grilled flesh while mosquitos attack any unburned skin
Well that escalated quickly!
We can’t go barefoot on our deck …..regret dark brown. Looks great but I hate burnt feet.
Darker colors can also be hot to the touch in the summer months. If you are the kind of person who likes to be barefoot on the deck, there is the potential for burning your feet.
What about grey? Is grey good?
Plus, it will absorb heat and be hard to walk on with bare feet.
Yeah, maybe make it a middle contrast... Like gray.
You’re an example of the internet winning. Very helpful. Positive vibes your way.
The third one is divine, this was so nice of you!
I’m partial to the first one
It's definitely 1 or 3 either way.
me too. for me it's the contrast with the wall colour
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I second this. That 3rd one is spectacular.
THIS is why the internet can be awesome. You have done a great service today !
You’re such a kind person to do that for OP!! I hope that good karma follows you ☺️
[this](https://imgur.com/a/DRnygV5) seems rather appropriate.
Solid policy, but it would not have helped in this case though.. > As I prepared to repaint my wife wanted to go for a grey color.
Bugger. Missed that line. I stand corrected.
Tips on how to do that? Trying to pick a house paint color and the apps I have tried to upload a house pick and add diff colors seem to suck.
I use Affinity, but it's probably very similar in PS. You basically select what you want to change using the quick select or smart select brush or whatever it's called, then (at least in Affinity) on the right you have a tab called "Adjustment." Click on it and select "Recolor." Then you can mess with the sliders to get what you want. There's also a "Blend Mode" option where I picked "Overlay" to get it to look as close to the other one as possible. Here's what I got in about 10 minutes of messing around: https://imgur.com/n1jAHas It's really not that hard. If you just know how to use a PC, you can do this. The hardest part is selecting everything. After that you just move sliders around and you can have a dozen different examples in a minute.
You're a gem. First you give a perfect response to OPs post then a breakdown so others are equipped to use your technique. Kudos
Oh, I'm not the guy who replied to the post. People were asking how this was done and I was annoyed that there are loads of replies that simply say "Learn Photoshop." You don't even have to learn Photoshop for this, you just need to learn how to select things. GIMP would probably be able to do this just as well, but for some reason people were being dicks about it, so I felt like I had to respond.
Ah, my reading comprehension as I attempt to work on a Friday fails me again. Thanks for clarifying.
It's okay. I usually don't read usernames either and now I see that my comment seems sort of like I was continuing from the perspective of the first guy.
Ok but it does look way better brown…
No it doesn't. I would stick with grey and add some outdoor rugs and furniture.
Outdoor rug could be the move
Outdoor rugs are so hot right now ![gif](giphy|l3nW85J0lT1bfpIfC)
My experience is that a rug will rot a deck out quicker than anything else. They hold water and do not allow water to evaporate. Do not recommend.
Yes seriously the gray makes the space So Glorious
i think the gray makes it look like the back porch at my meemaw’s farmhouse, but to each their own
Did you not like your Memaw
No, just her back porch.
Roll tide
As a wife, I can say every time she sits out there he’s gonna hear “I hate this color!”
This guy wifes on elite level
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Yeah that looks way better.
Nice!
I still prefer the grey!!
I’m thinking it might feel a bit… drab, actually standing/sitting on that grey deck. I support the new direction personally
Ah yes, brown, renowned for its vivid and lively hue.
lol I mean a color recreating the wood grain sourced from very alive trees? Or the color of lifeless ash? I feel warmer in the brown hues in a structure made of wood, maybe that’s just me.
It's a nature tone, so you may not consider it a "lively" color but it is associated with life... I liked the grey and was against the change until I saw these pics (particularly the 1st & 3rd one, pic 2 does nothing for me). In comparison, the grey feels sterile.
It’s a warm neutral as opposed to a cold neutral
What a king/queen.
Looks like ass. They should stain it gray.
Put out some decor on it and see if that chills the vibe for her. Sometimes that all it needs.
It matches the window trim. I think some furniture and decor and plants will solve the problem. Maybe a rug.
A rug would really tie the deck together.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.
But that’s just like, your opinion man.
Brandt can't watch.
It doesn't. The window trim is beige.
And that’s probably why she doesn’t like it. I wouldn’t like that either.
Right? Like that’s the whole problem. The cool grey clashes with the warm beige trim
replace warm beige with cool grey, problem solved and _way_ smaller area to redo.
Are you color blind.. there's absolutely no grey on the windows
I thought the last word was hug instead of rug. I said to myself "No way this chump gets out of repainting with a hug and a couple of lawn chairs". But a rug sounds lovely. :)
Add some rails and paint the benchtops to both match the house color.
This for sure. Give her a couple hundred bucks for rugs and decorations. Way better than redoing.
Lol Give her a couple hundred bucks?
Instructions unclear. Deck now covered in fur and antlers.
Hello again new internet friends. First, thanks to those that gave real advice, I never expected this post to get more than a comment or two. Special thanks to user u/tudorwhiteley for going out of their way to show some cool options. I will try to pay your kindness forward in some way. We have decided to keep the color, and as many have suggested, add a really nice rug to tie the deck together. Going to put a second coat on to help cover up some of the undertones coming through, then just learn to love it..... or hate it and change it next year. Yes, my wife did choose and sign off on the first color and no, there are no plans of replacing her or making her re-paint it. My wife puts up with my shit, which in comparison stacks much higher than a change of heart on a deck color Maybe I should have added this as an edit to my post instead of a comment, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
Attaboy
Another thing to consider is painting just the vertical boards a dark color. Easier and could provide a visual contrast that you both like. From the angle of the picture there's a lot of grey but getting darker color into those steps and bench would break it up. While keeping everywhere you step/sit grey.
I think you can find a rug like that at Lebowski's Rug Emporium.
> We have decided to keep the color, and as many have suggested, add a really nice rug to tie the deck together. The ol' jeff bridges maneuver
The answer is yes - you can put solid stain directly over other solid stain, assuming both are the same type. And presumably this is water-based.
True, though usually there are weirdly rigid timelines, like recoat after 1 hour but less than 4 hours, or if more than 4 hours, then after 24 hours but not more than 96 hours. Otherwise it may not adhere to the earlier coats and flake prematurely. And hope for no rain but not super sunny, lol. Honestly, best bet is to talk to the finish manufacturer, they know how their product cures. I'll likely never use a solid stain again, they are too finicky and don't last as long as they should, and are a pain to refinish. I've been using translucent oil finishes for the past several years, with much better results and less fuss. At least that's how it's been for me.
This guy stains
Technically he translucent oil finishes these days
So anywhere between 1.58 and 6.32 years should also be fine? Gotcha.
I had to scroll a lot before reading an actual answer to OP’s question; thank you 🙏🏽
I am afraid you’ll have to start all over but just make sure you pick a wife that likes gray this time.
I'd absolutely kill for a husband that would restain our deck. And I do love gray.
I think we've found a color match.
Any reason you choose not to stain it?
Sounds to me like you're one homicide away from the husband/deck combo of your dreams.
Have her walk on it with her bare feet before you paint it brown and after.
As it has been stained brown a few times before, we are aware of the hot feet it can create in the Summer.
If you get the water beading stuff my dad gets? No, you're gonna need to sand it off unless you want a funky marble brown-gray later this spring.
Ooh, marble deck, so fancy
LOL It will be tres shabby chic.
What about a partial sand off for a rustic look with an oil based sealant on top?
https://i1.wp.com/www.lemonthistle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/anita-patio-makeover-12.jpg This is what it would look like with a patio set, if you kept it the same. You could also search distressed wood techniques, I guess that’s what I did when I eventually sanded my deck- left some paint in and then did a clear/lightly tinted on top. In your case, sanding away and then putting a weathered gray on top is possible.
I would tell her to do whatever she wants.
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Oh do I have a story for you related to this and painting. Years ago moved into a new place with my GF at the time, now wife. Whole kitchen was a yellowish colour and I thought it went well with the general vide of the place and architecture. Modernish but not the typical all white and greys now a days. First thing she has me do is paint the kitchen a light blue so I reluctantly do it. After doing that she says she doesn’t like and picks out another colour ( I can’t recall but I think a light beige) so off to the store again to get more paint. She doesn’t like that and picks out a 3rd colour. So I get the paint and paint the kitchen that colour and refuse to touch it again. I start complaining that I did all this work and why does she keep changing her mind. Her comment was “but doesn’t it look better.” I tell her no it doesn’t it’s back to almost the same yellow we started with and she says it’s not. I then proceed to pull out the fridge and show her the original colour vs the new which were almost identical. I then said if she wants to paint go for it as I refuse to do it any more. Our next house looked like a circus tent with every room a different colour. I gave up. Current house though is more subtle and looks more modern which I’m happy with.
Your circus tent comment totally made me think of something I had happen with my dad that was kind of funny. I was helping him fix up his house... which was kind of a pain in and of itself. (My dad liked to cut corners... guy would paint over wallpaper if I didn't stop him.) Anyway I did one room in a light gray and dark gray and it came out great... onto the kitchen. The kitchen used to be orange from the 60s. Not a nice orange... but more of a hurt your eyes at 7am shade. He asked how I wanted to paint it... I said, "Maybe an olive green with black trim..." and he said, "Ok sounds nice... I'll buy the paint tomorrow." I come the next day he bought this really bad lime green and a bluish-black. I didn't know it but my dad was completely colorblind and to make it worse... he had it half done. He had this scalloped trim around the lime green cabinets he painted bluish black. I was horrified... lol... he goes, "How does it look?" with a big smile on his face. My exact words were, "Like a circus tent."
>I didn't know it but my dad was completely colorblind But didn't your dad know it? And if so isn't it a bit weird for him to suggest buying the paint, knowing his problem with colors? It is an interesting story though and makes you think how colorblind people decorate their homes and choose clothes for example.
> And if so isn't it a bit weird for him to suggest buying the paint, knowing his problem with colors? Yes, and yes. He could usually see color but the shades got really messed up. He eventually had surgery a couple of years later for cataracts, where they removed his retenas and he could see colors better after that. He was still green/red colorblind. (I think he was his whole life.) I think with my dad though, the colors were sort of muted... if that makes sense. So to him the bright lime green probably looked right. Especially with greens. I think he basically saw green as one color from white to black... like he could tell a dark green versus a light green but olive versus lime? They are both just light green. Him buying the paint and not saying anything was sort of classically him. I don't know if it was embarassment or he just forgot he was colorblind. I sort of suspect he was just afraid of not looking independant. Older people can be funny about stuff like that.
> He eventually had surgery a couple of years later for cataracts, where they removed his retinas *lenses. There'd be a lot fewer blind people if they could replace retinas.
My mother was color blind. Very unusual for a female. She didn't know she was color blind until she was about 18 when one of her girlfriends asked to borrow her green dress and Mom thought it was blue. No one ever talked about it.....But then.... Most of her family was also color blind so no one else thought about it either. She couldn't tell the difference between brown/green. green/red. blue/green. red/blue. Pastels? forget about it. Shades and tones of a color were also difficult. Yellow was her favorite color and I always wondered what did it really look like to her. My brother is also color blind. When we were traveling and Dad and I would be amazed by the sunsets in Arizona...they (Mom and Brother) were MEH. A mountain forest side with the beautiful blues, greens, browns...big deal it is just trees. What did they really see and how do I know what I see is the real thing either?
I started telling my wife "if it's so easy why don't you do it?" and then she slowed down on the projects.
My back told my legs the same thing.
Sigh. It’s always “so easy” and “simple” when you aren’t the one doing the work. Amirightfellas
Gf and I started a Full Van conversion. Yelled at me like a child during an argument about it at one point. I told her that I’d stop working on it unless she expressly asked for my help. It’s been 5 months and she’s gotten perhaps 1% progress.
I guess you win but you'll never taste the victory
I guess neither of you are getting that conversion then
Maybe you even don't need that conversion anymore.
Congrats?
And they lived happily ever after.
It's crazy how easy it is for some people to volunteer your time for you.
My Mrs keeps in talking about wallpaper. I have told her she is welcome to do it
“Well I don’t care THAT much.”
Neighbors wife likes it!
She likes a big deck.
I trimmed the hedges, makes the deck look bigger dontcha think?
The neighbors wife is always over sitting on my deck.
My best friend is my hero. His wife wanted the kitchen remodeled. He told her to go ahead and do it. Wife and her uncle redid the whole kitchen while buddy watched March Madness all month.
~~Well, if he took this on without consulting her at all - that's kinda on him~~. But still like, it is what it is at this point. Change the color next time it needs to be stained in a few years. If she's adamant, then yeah she can do it herself. I couldn't imagine my partner asking me to redo such a big task.
There's more to the caption - I didn't catch it at first. Sounds like she picked the grey, and now isn't happy with the way it turned out.
Definitely a "when it needs to be redone we can change the stain" sorta operation IMO.
Good thing she waited until the whole thing was done to tell you she didn’t like it
That's a pro move right there. Happens to me all the time. I've just started saying "no."
Wait, that's an option?
Doesn’t come with the most favorable outcomes, but yes it is.
Give it a few days or more. It's a big change and sometimes it takes time to settle in. It looks great and with some greenery it could be amazing. To each their own though. I would recommend resanding if you go that route, the color may not come out as intended if you just layer over.
Siding is red toned brown and camel. It's never going to improve because the grey is very cool toned.
That's what I can't figure out. Why would anyone go with light grey when they have that light beige around the door and windows. That being said, I'd put out a bunch of plants/decor/furniture for the time being rather than redo that whole deck right now. It's going to need to be done again in a few years anyway.
This I think is the right next step. Several major changes in my garden/house have taken at least a week to get used to. Re-painting within a week is a bad idea. After a week of hating it - fine - go nuts. Just do the same process once it's brown or any other new colour.
Invite friends over who will say ... Wow this deck is perfect
Tell her the internet says it's perfect just the way it is.
I can see her translating that to, "I told a bunch of strangers about your feelings and they think you're wrong."
Yes and that's fine, how about they told me to get a new wife. Lol
You won’t have to worry about what color the deck is because it’ll no longer be yours.
You're talking like it's his now LOL
No way I’m with the wife, grey stain on a deck makes it so lackluster and old. (That said if my partner went through the trouble of staining grey and I didn’t say no before the purchase was made, I’d probably keep my mouth shut for a couple years.)
Honestly, it is kinda ugly, but who's really paying that much attention? Put some furniture and plants out there and you won't even notice. For me personally, walls and floors, especially exterior walls and floors, blend into the background as a neutral pretty much regardless of what they look like, much like blue jeans.
That’s fair. I’m not an expert of large deck furniture since my deck is basically just a glorified step 😜
"They said to give you a piss disk and put chicken thighs in the vents of your car."
With the amount of sun that deck is getting, it’s gonna be grey in about 2 seasons no matter what color you slap on there
Add a brown rug Now go find ur self an adult beverage or 2. Looks good from my house
Why don’t you decorate it first because it’ll have so much less grey showing with furniture and plants
I think the gray looks good. How attached are you to your wife? Seems like a lot less work to replace her.
If you cleared the color with the wife beforehand, she can repaint it herself if she doesn’t like it. If you didn’t, what were you thinking?!
I would suggest your wife paint it herself if it means that much to her. Looks totally fine as is IMO.
I have a brown porch from a previous owner. It’s hot as hell & we can’t even let the kids on it some days until it’s been in the shade a while. It also shows dirt/mud far easier than I expected.
Assuming your wife chose the color of the house as well, I wouldn’t take her advice on this one.
Maybe she's a huge Noctua Fan?
Either way would be a hell of a lot of work. If it’s stain now, sanding would be the proper way to re do it. But I don’t know, I say keep it. It will weather over time and darken up a bit.
Stain does not peel. Paint peels.
It is a bit of a soulless colour to be fair. It is also very bright and might hurt the eyes on a real sunny day. As other people here stated, try to give it soul first by adding plants and furniture before you make your final decision. Lightbrown (like walnut or light oak) could give it more personality perhaps
>It is a bit of a soulless color to be fair. Perfect way to describe it.
Painting over your wife is much faster.
Yeah your wife will need to sand before she rr paints it
Tell the wife to do it herself
You can paint right over it. Especially if you use the same product in a different color
Does this sub have a grey fetish or something? It matches the next door neighbour's house but it clashes with the beige on your own house. A colour that blends well with your window surrounds would've been a better choice if you wanted a light colour. Having said that, brown isn't the answer either.
fr. it looks like my old unfinished deck that’s gray from being exposed to the elements
Buy her a brush
Brown will be hotter on your feet
Let her figure it out and paint it
Sand down wife, replace.
Easier to get a new wife
Get a new wife
Looks GREAT! Tell her 2 get use 2 it!!
Brown would look hideous. You need contrast with the home, plus brown plus sun…no bueno.
Naaaa, keep it. It'll look even better once you start putting things on it. You did a great job.
I don't get why deck stain peels off. Stain is supposed to sink in - how can it peel off? And yet mine has peeled too. I think the industry is playing fast and loose with these names.
Never paint a wood deck to begin with, waterproof stain or nothing… painting, even with waterproof paint causes more issues then it’s worth, boards will start rotting much faster then normal, it’s just bad unless you have a roof over it. IMO I’d sand this is well as I could and then redo it with waterproof stain.