@millworkman, I agree very pretty... the only issue is the red of the planks,,, there are a lot of them. The island is white oak so if the floor stays with all those red planks it is going to pull red for most everything I fear. I am good with a classic look -- I only wish the red planks where more dark wood or warm wood color minus the red. @Raimondi, yup... white oak would have been easier for the outcome wanted.

Try samples of Ebony diluted with Natural, on water popped wood.

what you don't want is any stain w/red in it. you'll want to use brown stains that are ashy or greenish tone.

coffee brown and provincial are examples, as well as jacobean.

@Beth H. :- Do you think mixing with Duraseal Oil Stain Provincial and Weathered Oak a good mix 50/50... or Duraseal Special Walnut and Weathered Oak? I thought Special Walnut would be a good one to mix... but after reading a bit sounds like Provincial has no/less red than Special Walnut. Trying to get a light-ish wood classic stain without the red. I am happy with brown/yellow tone.. just trying to soften those red planks. Knowing that we will most likely have to use Duraseal vs Bona doing my best to give direction to the contractor/floor guy for hopeful options and ease.

it's best if you do a sample board, let dry. then you can see how it will look

(spec wal/weathered oak might be a nice combo)

u can use the Neutral to lighten things up a bit. I like the far left mix (this is red oak, so it's going to look more red than yours)

spc wal, jacobean, prov, reg wal, all are ashier brwns w/o much red.

Just to update this for the next person. We had a lot of luck mixing Duraseal country white with our stain of choice for new red oak floors. We ended up using 3:1 Duraseal fruitwood & Duraseal country white oil stain. I wanted to try also neutral and country white but we ran out of time in our process. However we also wanted a little more brown than yellow. I think there is a touch of pinkish with different light but it is in the relm of what we wanted. I found this process challenging but the outcome beautiful. I'll try to post a photo later.

@racheleck whenever you have the time please post the pic of your floors. Thanks!

@racheleck Yes please do!

Red oak can be challenging. Here's more info for options. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6331820/bona-red-out-anyone#n=17

There is some pink and in different times of day with different light you can see a little more... however the floors overall came out wonderful; it feels more uniform in tone and the combo we used didn't bring out the different grain which was important to us. Some of the other combos of darker stains highlighted the graining. I am happy with the outcome. I couldn't trust our floor person to do the Red Out or other sorts of preconditioning i.e.Nordic Seal. I wasn't sure of their level of training and the conversation didn't get further with trying those products. So this is just the 3:1 two coats of Duraseal fruitwood and country white. The 3:1 ratios is "easy" to get the ratios exact in case we need to do the stain again. Then 2 coats of water poly. I can't seem to get the photos to upload. Will have to try another time.

Thanks for this discussion. I’m in the medium of a kitchen renovation. I have red oak floors that I have decided to sand and stain in hopes of minimizing the orange and pink hues. I am looking for a stain/brand that can offer that solution and complement white oak cabinets 🙈. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated!

@racheleck Could you please show a pic of your finished floors? Fruitwood and country white are what I think I want to sample but would love to see the finished product you have. My floor guy says he only uses duraseal. And when I mentioned the red out (which I thought I was going with) he immediately stated "i don't use bona" and his discussion of red out use and lack of knowledge/experience makes me VERY weary.

I’m really happy with the outcome. I doubtful that they would look like white oak but they are really close

Hi Ty, Can you tell me what stain you ended up with? The floors look lovely.

SO the OP complains no one post the outcomes, yet it's been 11 months and no pics from @racheleck