Dark colors attract the heat. I would choose a lighter brown. Maybe Leather or Cabin Brown

I like both those colors. I also thought about staining it the same color as our siding/trim- would be more of a taupe color. Thoughts?

I also think that a dark opaque stain could be hot to walk on. Shagbark might look good with the brick.

The dark stain doesn’t make it any hotter than it is without.

My deck is SW sealskin, faces west and is no hotter than it was as a lighter color.

You are going to have a difficult time putting a lighter color overtop of what you have now.

Id go with the spice wood.

These two colors look dark for me. House is dark as well. I like wood/cedar color.

This color was proposed?

I agree the cedar color would be nice, but how would you apply it over the current color and have it look right? I’m sure that is why SW suggested the darker colors.

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I think your idea of a ltaupe color would look very nice. On the SW stain chart, “Buckthorn” looks like it would tie in really well with your roof color. “Tobacco” , with its greenish gray cast would look very nice with your red brick, imo . You would need to ask the SW rep regarding coverage, however I would THINK that since this is an opaque stain ,it certainly should be able to cover any underlying color.

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