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Day 14 :) ruuuuurrrrroooooooo

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so............i decided to stain the floors ....i was going to floorboard with skinny sticks but as i like to 'fill my houses to capacity'' you never see much floor anyway :wave:

All is good...i find the tin of stain i used on the other Beacon...i shake it up...theres plenty in the tin...i open it and start staining.......

top floor done....middle floor done....ground floor done....i'm thinking this is looking good :lol:

i go to make a coffee before the next coat...i come back into the craft room....i think...gee that looks dark, hmmmmmm well it must dry lighter......i wait.......

its dry.....omg!!!! its a total different colour!!!! :w00t:

I check the tin...yep its stain.....what happened??

Does stain go 'off' ? did someone switcheroo it? :doh:

Well what to do... what to do? too late to change it now :p

I'm thinking i'll have to redo the 1st beacon trims to match, as this new one is alot darker somehow.....but on the upside...i like the darker one better :doh:

OR....i could do the skinny sticks and just have the front strip to sand and change...but then i'd have to skinny stick both houses to match anyway... :yikes:

heres a pic of the 2 front strips of both houses

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still baffled as to how its so dark...theres got to be a reason/explaination :blink:

or........my kids are right and i am losing the plot :o

Any ideas? :banana:

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Alamom

Been There Done That! I accidentally got the wrong stain once and didn't notice until I had stained the whole door luckily I just made another door. You've got three large floors, It would take you forever to do all those plus the first BH flloors with skinny sticks. What about using some upholstery fabric as carpet for some of the floors. In a Reallife house thats been built onto over the years, some of the woods and stains might not match. Sorry, I'm no help, but your BH is coming along nicely!

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Jo Med

Linda, could it be that you actually used the right stain but because the wood is reversed in this part, it came out differently. I know the Garfield wood is a different colour on each side. Just a thought.

Jo

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