I can't answer your question of staining Brazilian cherry, but I would replace the floors. Cherry floors and cherry cabinets is just too much wood. I like slate or a slate-look porcelain with cherry. Or a high-end vinyl tile--black and white check would look great!

DO NOT under any circumstances use laminate flooring! It is not durable (it chips and scratches), sounds hollow and plastic-y, and warps when exposed to water. You cannot refinish it. I don't understand why the same homeowners who would never use laminate countertops consider laminate for floors!

Keep your Brazilian cherry floors--- yes, you can refinish and stain. Value of what you have is much greater and will retain value vs tile/laminate. A reputable floor refinisher can provide samples of stain options. A dark chocolate would look great with the white cabinets and grey walls you plan.

Since you are doing the cabinets white I would have the floors refinished to match in a dark stain the one in this pic is brazilian cherry stained black and has a very nice rich tone IMO.

The ONLY way to get the red out of cherry is to go dark. Dark floors show dust/crumbs more, but can look gorgeous. ........just keep the swiffer handy. Do not butt another faux wood anything flooring to the existing cherry.

Actually, going very dark is NOT the only way to minimize red in Brazilian Cherry. Standard wood bleach removes quite a bit of the red. After bleaching it can be stained or finished natural. When finished natural it looks a lot like Teak. Using a light sealer like Bona ClassicSeal and Mega HD Clear or Traffic keeps it much lighter. Using oil poly will make it darker, give it more life, be more durable and less costly (especially compared to Traffic). The picture below shows a bleached Brazilian Cherry sample (oil based on the left, water based on the right) sitting on a Brazilian Cherry floor finished with Bona Naturale.

Finding a floor finisher that's familiar with bleaching might be a bit of a challenge but it's not particularly difficult. Mix parts A & B 1:1, apply two coats with full coverage but don't puddle. The floor needs to be very clean before application or it can streak. When picking a color, keep in mind that the wood will still darken as it does normally. This is as more of an issue if you go natural rather than bleaching and staining.

The big problem with sanding them down enough to get rid of all the red is the beveled edges on the boards. It's engineered flooring, so it's a thin veneer of the good wood on a substrate. The finishers are going to have to be very careful; They have to take off a lot of wood, going down to the base of the bevel, without going too far. It's not like a normal refinish job that just removes the finish.

not all engineered wood can be refinished. your best bet would be to call out a pro wood floor refinisher and get his advice first.

if it can't, then don't worry about what the next buyers in 5-10 years may want! you're living there now. get what you like! I always laugh when I read someone asking this. unless you're flipping this house to sell now, get what you want.

please, no laminate. either get some decent wood flooring or do a nice porcelain or natural slate. wood look tile at your price point, can look very cheesy. (and is your 3.50 a sq ft just for material or material and labor?)

I actually just found this one over at tilebar and think it's beautiful for a porcelain wood look tile. If you can up your budget to 4.50, you can get this one.

they have it in Anthracite too

or do something like this porcelain hex tile

We replaced living room carpeting with Brazilian cherry and had it all stained ebony with Bona Traffic HD finish in Satin. The line between shows where the new floor was added. Super happy with how they turned out and the stuff wears like iron, though as Jan points out they do show a bit more dirt. We did have a ton of fading in our dining room area previously and I actually loved that look which looks like the bleach treatment Johnson Flooring recommends. Sorry I don't have a picture that shows the kitchen floor better. If you stain, make sure they water-pop. As everyone points out, it will all depend on how much "meat" you can salvage on the engineered floor.

mnmamax,,,what kind of flooring was this? do you have the brand? is it a solid or engineered?

This one is solid select grade jatoba (Brazilian cherry).

nice wood. floors like you have are readily refinished. I believe OP has engineered, with a beveled edge and a hand scraped factory finish. I don't think she will be able to have it done.

If you were to change your mind and decide to keep the current cherry cabinetry, I would have the kitchen tiled and the walls painted a lighter consistent color. If you are still set on new white cabinetry and plan to do that right away, I would suggest doing the flooring as part of that project.

Thank you all for your comments! This was very helpful. We are going to meet with a professional wood flooring refinisher next week, and will go from there.

Julie what did you end up doing with your floors?