This will be the new kitchen.

Here are my inspiration pictures

I'm confused, because your sample door looks like you're planning on an oak-look component? But somehow you want your actual oak floor to look less so?

Your inspirations all have very light floors (with white oak). And dark cabinets. Are you using white, oak, and black cabinets? I was assuming the white and the wood samples were what we were supposed to look at. If the lighter, then I'd pick a darker stain from those you've sampled, to get a little contrast. If all the colors (and mostly dark), then this wood will be most of the warmth in your room, and I'm not sure I'd try to kill it will pickling or paint. Maybe just a natural water-based finish, matte?

I will have a black island, white base cabinets on the back wall perimeter and a small area of floor to ceiling cabinets in the wood stain.

My goal:

1. Neutralize red oak floors to minimize the pink, orange and brownish hues.

2. Get the floors as light as possible
   

   

Light as possible and minimal pink means you'll have to use a product like Pinkqualizer or Bona Red out before staining.

Thanks Paul. Is pinkqualizer orBona RedOut the same as bleaching?

What are the cons of using pinkqualizer orBona RedOut ?

It is the same as bleaching, but it does not seem to be as damaging to the wood. I’ve done both bleaching and Bona red out. I haven’t tried the other but there are threads about both if you search here. The Bona red out is a two-step process that needs to be done twice… maybe in your case three times if you want no trace of pink.
You will see in a lot of the pictures here that the floors still look to be a little bit pink although the poster will say in person that all pink is gone. After the last step the floor needs to be very dry before you try to stain in it or you will see blotches.
When I tried using bleach that really lighten the wood but seemed to take a lot of the character out as well, a lot of the grain was lifted too.

Very informative. Thank you for your post!

I love the color of the fresh Sanded wood. It’s the color I’m going for with the final product

Heres my new floors next to my existing steps. It's a white oak plank that has a touch of pink in it. I love it. I'll take a raw wood pale pink over the old orange floors any day.

Where will you prep? You don't have enough prep room between the sink and the stove. Normally we take food out of the fridge, bring it to the sink to rinse, then prep between stove and sink.

If it were me, I'd move the sink and DW to the short L and then prep under the window to the right of the stove. We normally spend about 60-70% of our time prepping and only about 10% of the time at the sink. Something to think about. Put the fridge to the left of the DW, then the sink on that short L. Plus that also gets the sink out of the cooking zone so it's safer.

@mcarroll16 do you have photos of your floors with the 25% provincial stain?

Here you go. We didn't refinish the stairs, which is why they still pop orange.

I’m so nervous! This is after the 2nd coat of Bona Red Out. Is this what I should expect ?