You may think that choosing a deck color is as simple as pointing to a brown stain on the hardware store shelf and going with ...

I’ve had far better luck getting stains matched by the staff at the paint store than I’ve had trying to mix colors off the shelf ... When you apply a mahogany stain to oak, it may come close ...

“You have to weigh both the color and the opacity of the stain. A single deck color, like ‘mahogany,’ may come in transparent, semi-transparent, semi-solid, and solid formulations. The level ...