After installing your exterior cedar you have about a two week grace period until the wood starts to discolor.
Exterior cedar siding paint colors.
If you do decide to color your wood there are several options.
Brush the paint rather than spray or roll.
After that the color will rapidly change from red to gray.
Choose the correct type of paint for the cedar.
A wide spectrum of colors can you cedar be painted white to dark brown.
But there s an important difference as well because these stains will highlight the cedar s natural texture.
The house trim paint is sherwin williams sw 7004 snowbound.
Solid color stains are usually supplied in a color palette that may be limited to less than a hundred shades of brown and gray.
Tips for painting cedar siding.
Like paint a solid color stain forms a protective film over the wood.
Paint color scheme featuring greige and mint.
Best exterior gray paint colors sherwin williams makes.
The shingles are stained in an acrylic repose gray by sherwin williams.
Choose the optimal window of time for.
To add a rich long lasting opaque color there s ppg s 100 acrylic stain which protects against sun and water damage.
Most cedar treatments are much like house paint in that they are composed of pigments and solids.
Exterior grade acrylic latex paint is the most dependable finish in terms of protecting cedar.
Applying paint and solid color stains.
Normally 100 acrylic primers a 6 8 mils thick 100 acrylic paint 9 13 mils dried thickness and paint stains needing at least 2 4 mils dried thickness.
The plantation shutters are painted in s herwin williams tricorn black sw 6258.
Notice i keep using term paint stain in that a paint stain leaves a mil thickness on top acting like a paint but penetrates cedar also unlike a 100 acrylic exterior paint would not do.
The cedar siding is painted in sw dorian gray.
In refinishing painted or solid color stained siding and trim removal of the old coating may be required.
Many different shades of stains colors of paints designed for cedar listed below.
Exterior western red cedar surfaces only need to be refinished when the old coating has worn thin and no longer affords the wood protection.
Your typical exterior paints being 100 acrylic is not meant for cedar siding where as a solid body paint stain is.
All paint colors by sherwin williams.
Finishing product recommendations the flood pro series by ppg paints comes in a wide range of exterior stains that are ideal for western red cedar products.