Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...

I can make decisions for other people pretty easily, but when it comes to making them for me, forget it, I second guess myself way too much. I think I'm too close to it. I ended up choosing a neutral color solid stain for the deck. It's called crossroads. I had a difficult time choosing a color. Originally I was gonna stain it like a hardwood floor color, but we had a dark stain on our deck before and it made our great room look too dark. Also, some of those stains look too orangy against the red brick. I decided to go with a solid stain instead of paint because paint will chip. The solid stain is supposed to last a lot longer. The problem is that it only comes in flat and it's not even a normal flat, it's almost chalky. For the most part, I like this color, it's just that when the sun hits it at different times of the day it changes colors (looks kind of peachy to me, yuk). The other thing that bugs me is that the soffits are white because the trim on the rest of my house is white. It's such a sharp contrast. I'd rather them be the same color as the rest of the deck so they don't stand out. But if I stain the soffits the same as the deck, the outside of the house won't look right because the rest of the soffits and gutters are white. Also, I'd get into a lot of maintenance with painting gutters and downspouts. Oh, and this is the second color already. The first one I chose was a transparent stain. The painter did one post and then came and got me and said, ya may want to see this before I paint the whole thing. I couldn't even see the color it was so transparent. After I asked him where he even painted the color, I asked him to do a second coat. It didn't make a difference. It looked NOTHING like the stain on the chart. We ended up eating the cost of that paint, but at least he hadn't done all the work yet.
So... this color we have on there now, Keith likes it. Also I had two different neighbors come over separately. They both have good taste, so I wanted to get their opinions. They both liked it and said I should leave it. Drew said, when I put the furniture out there and decorate it, I'm gonna love it. Hmmmm? Decisions, Decisions, Decisions... I have to make the final decision by Monday. Any thoughts? Anyone?