Recommendation for fence colour?

[JanK]

Here's the dilemma. The garden is fairly small - 40 ft long and narrow. The colour up when I moved in was a red/dark brown colour.

It's due for a make over but finding it hard to select a colour. The dark colour is too on the red side for my liking.

I'm also aware that a lot of the cuprinol colours come out different when painted on.

Just wondering if anyone can recommend one.

I've been trailing through the Internet trying to see how the colours come out!

Any ideas?

 

[Burnerman]

If the woodwork has already been coloured Jan, I think you have little choice but to go dark......maybe something like Sadolins Jacobean?
John

 

[JanK]

If the woodwork has already been coloured Jan, I think you have little choice but to go dark......maybe something like Sadolins Jacobean?
John

That's annoying! I've just googled it and that actually looks a nice colour! It doesn't appear to have a red tone in!

 

[Deleted2797112]

I'm part-way through (successfully) changing that horrid red-brown on the fences on three sides of my garden and the shed to green. I bought a large quantity of cheap fence paint on eBay to do the colour change and then used the matching Ducksback as the top coat. It takes 3-4 undercoats to get rid of the red/brown. I just couldn't live with the colour they were (it was too in my face and made the fences stand out too much) so figured if I used an unobtrusive colour (a woodland type green) they might disappear into the background a bit, and it seems to work. I doubt you'd be able to make your fences cream or white but you might be able to achieve a mid-colour - blue, green, pink! etc with a bit of effort.

 

[JanK]

I'm part-way through (successfully) changing that horrid red-brown on the fences on three sides of my garden and the shed to green. I bought a large quantity of cheap fence paint on eBay to do the colour change and then used the matching Ducksback as the top coat. It takes 3-4 undercoats to get rid of the red/brown. I just couldn't live with the colour they were (it was too in my face and made the fences stand out too much) so figured if I used an unobtrusive colour (a woodland type green) they might disappear into the background a bit, and it seems to work. I doubt you'd be able to make your fences cream or white but you might be able to achieve a mid-colour - blue, green, pink! etc with a bit of effort.

Aha, sounds like I'm gonna have to use some form of primer before top coat regardless. The colour is so grim! I'm sure it looked lovely on the packaging lol.