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Shed is cuprinol golden oak but it's a bit poo brown. Fence is ronseal fence life plus Tudor Oak which I quite like, plus as @hugo7 points out, dark works well as a foliage background.
Both require at least two coats and if you have anything other than flat fence panels they will take a long time to paint. We have some with a lattice along the top and it took forever.
Planed panels do look nice and clean though, vs sawn featheredge.
Be aware that if the panels are tongue and groove, the wood will likely shrink/expand and reveal unpainted bits.
The water based finishes make cleaning up easy but do make sure you protect the ground beneath where you paint. Our patio looks a bit Jackson Pollock.
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I plan to replace the fence panels on one side in the next month, there are good posts to reuse and they seem to all be standard 6' square panels I can nail in pretty easily (probably). However I really feel like the standard stain/wood look is a bit dull, and actually a bit unpleasant when new so am considering a colour for the lot of it, the question is what, and also how? *
Thinking about a nice dark colour, ie black or very dark green? Not really inspired by anything more modern/colourful as I'm worried it will date a bit, and I'd like to avoid just-buy-a-fucking-new-build greige.