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You can hope that it fades. Penetrating stain is a relatively permanent thing, at lest for a couple years. Consider the current coating as primer and overcoat it with a much lighter shade of semi-transparent or lighter shade of opaque stain. YOu should be able to go as light as yoiu originally wanted or even more so.

A little late to tell you about how deceptive small color samples are huh? Relatively dark shades will always look much darker on a large surface. I mixed a batch of bright yellow for my wife's tea room/clean hobby space (800 sq ft.) I got her to approve the color. I painted a few sq ft on the wall as a more realistic sample. When I had it toned down to her satisfaction I painted the room. Everyone thought it was too dark/bright of yellow (I didn't care if HER walls were chartreuse and violet diagonal stripes but her friends thought it was too much so I mixed another batch, much lighter (more white in the mix) and she and a friend painted the whole thing again (My first coat was free but I wasn't doing it over, BAD PRECEDENT!)

You probably didn't want to hear that you have just primed with the first coat and you need to do it again to get the color you want but think of this... You will probably get a much better lasting job with another coat. If it were indoors there are lots of washes, glazes, and such often used in faux finishes that I could have suggested but for the exterior... play it again.

TRIVIA NOTE: The Humphrey Bogart character in the movie "Casablanca" never spoke the line, "Play it again, Sam."

Pat

"I'm not from your planet, monkey boy!"

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