You need to see a sample of that stain on your floor , red oak has a tendency to have a bit of pink undertone often. When I google it looks good but you need to see it in person.

i do have samples on the new floor but not on the old floor that will be sanded. My fear is the old floor that is to be sanded could have some residual stain that may effect the color. The flooring people tell me it wont but i wanted to see if anyone has experienced that.

thanks so much for your reply

Professional wood flooring sanding/refinishers will be able to take your current floor down to raw wood. There won't be any residual colour.

The question I have is how ORANGE do you want your floors to be? The colours you have mentioned are quite gold/brown (brown is a form of orange). Red oak will enhance the amount of red/brown/reddish orange. That is something you need to be prepared for.

And the FINISH is going to dictate how much your stain changes (oil based finish) or stays the same (water based polyurethane/clear coat).

Have your flooring refinished offer some stain patches for you to assess over a weekend. There should be 4-5 stain patches of different colours on your floor (I like 2ft x 2ft patches). These patches MUST INCLUDE a coat of your finish. The coat of finish is DESPERATELY IMPORTANT. It tells you the REAL colour.

You will view these patches in all 5 different lighting situations (early morning, mid-morning/noon, afternoon, evening, night time/artificial lighting). You will choose the colour you like the most in all 5 lighting situations. That's why you take the weekend to make your decision...and not 30 minutes on a Tuesday afternoon.

I have had the samples down for several days. They did not put any finish on top...

i dont want orangeish reddish . What duraseal colors would u recommend me try?

The installer will apply a water based product (must be water based and not 'oil modified') poly on top for you to view. I'm not a fan of DuraSeal...but take their MOST EXPENSIVE product they've got and require 3 coats.

Again, all of this should have been explained to you by your refinisher.

Your chance to get this right, with what you want, all depends on the work that you do in the front end to verify that you are working with the right licensed and insured contractor. From the lack of information and other things that are on board here, you may not have done enough due diligenc.