Two kinds of stain, and the choice matters more than the color
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Transparent
Adds subtle color and lets the grain show through. Best on new cedar, where the wood is worth seeing. It will not disguise boards that have weathered unevenly.
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Semi-transparent
More color coverage with the wood texture still visible. The usual choice on older fencing, because it evens out boards that have aged at different rates.
Transparent
Natural grain, subtle color
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Black Walnut
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Cedar Tone
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Chestnut
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Clear Glow
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Leatherwood
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Oxford Brown
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Redwood
Semi-transparent
More color, texture still showing
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Barn Red
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Black
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Cape Cod
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Chameleon Gray
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Charcoal Gray
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Coffee Brown
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Coronado
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Cumberland Brown
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Dark Sierra
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Desert Sand
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Golden Rod
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Graystone
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Mesa Gray
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Prairie Gray
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Rustic Oak
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Sable Brown
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Sedona
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Sierra
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Wrangler
Ask for samples before you commit
A stain name tells you very little and a photograph of a stain tells you less, because the same product reads differently on cedar than on pine, differently on new wood than on weathered, and differently in Austin sun than under a screen. We bring physical samples and we will put them on your fence before you choose.
It is worth doing. Re-staining a fence you are unhappy with is considerably more work than waiting a week to see the color on your own boards.
Related
The staining service itself
Want to see these on your fence?
Tell us roughly how long the fence is and how old, and we will bring samples when we scope it.
Rather talk it through? 512-883-5420