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Janemarie
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2019 08:35pm
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This is the year I am getting all the ducks in a row on the cabin I bought last late fall. (This site was been such a resource. Thanks all.) One thing that needed doing was a staining of the logs. They were down to bare wood, but not rotting yet. I power washed the whole cabin, let it dry a few weeks, and decided to use Sikkens Cetol Log cabin stain. When looking at the colors, I did not like the lighter colors, so I went with their Dark Oak. Now that I have the second coat on, the color is 1) super dark (as in like deep, deep brown, almost black) and 2) kind of shiny. I redid all the trim in a bright moss green, and it really pops, but I wonder if the cabin is now too dark. Did I just violate some unwritten rule of log cabinhood? Does anyone else have a shiny log cabin? A nearly black one?
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fiftyfifty
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:30pm
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I have seen a few log cabins that are a black-brown and I think they look handsome. I bet the green trim looks great next to it. Not sure about the shiny part, probably that will dull with time.
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ICC
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# Posted: 30 Aug 2019 11:01pm
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If you like the color, that is all that matters
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creeky
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# Posted: 1 Sep 2019 01:24pm
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pictures!
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 1 Sep 2019 06:33pm
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I think that is the colors Forest Service and National Parks use, ie the dark brown logs and they use green for roofing. Its the reason I chose the same colors. Mine isnt logs, but if it was, I'd use the same color.
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tichalet
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# Posted: 1 Sep 2019 08:40pm
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I second the request for pics! It actually sounds wonderful.
Dark brown & green can be a very sharp combo & - as toyota says - very NPS-ish.
I'm thinking especially of the wonderful Phantom Ranch on the floor of the Grand Canyon, designed by Mary Coulter & completed in 1922. Not logs but...(oops, having a hard time adding images, so here's a link)
https://www.grandcanyonlodges.com/lodging/phantom-ranch/
More recently, this renovation & extension of a 100 yr old cabin in NorCal by architect Amy Alper. It's not a log structure either but it blends so well with the surroundings.
https://freshome.com/2012/01/24/perfect-californian-creekside-retreat-by-amy-alper/
Don't re-stain it til we get to see, please! 
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