My lovely project, house reneovation, call for shutters… I want to match the color of the shutters to the garage door and back door… a stained painted blue, if there is such a beast… I know the blue I want and the shutters my contractor has for me are cedar… the garage door will probably be another type of wood, as will the back door…
My question: How do I match the stained panted blue to these various woods… and/or is there a resource someone can suggest I look into..?
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Go to a real paint store, like a BM, and ask the paintmaster to stir you up a pigmented stain to match your blue. He'll need a color chip to scan in his spectrophotometer.
He'll then take a quart or gallon of a wood conditioner and add pigment to it the same as you would color wall paint.
Note, most stains have a dye component also. This will not. You may have to use a multicoat process to get what you want.
I've got an intense green front door made out of oak stained by using a brilliant green dye followed by the above described pigmented stain. Then has it's 2 coats of spar urethane. Has held up beautifully for 3 years in the Denver sun.
I'm no paint chemist, but the guys that complain about spar urethane not lasting as long as they would like - well, with this color involvement and compared to the back door of a different color, I'm thinking there's another level of sun protection given.