Did you try the Early American/Weathered Oak combination? What stain did you end up doing?

Our bona choices (goal was light/weathered) all pulled orange. Had to have them resanded after color was applied. unfortunately had to go dark to combat the orange. we used driftwood and i do really like it other than normal dark wood floor complaints. (i. e. dust,footprints)

Thank you

Early American/Weathered Oak combination on a red oak dresser.

We did end up going with a 50/50 blend of Duraseal Weathered Oak and Early American on our Red Oak hardwoods. Our contactor uses Loba 2k and we upgraded to the Loba 2k AT waterbased poly in Satin sheen. We love the look and feel of the poly! We are happy with the stain. We like that it definitely cuts the orange and has lightened the floor. The natural reds and yellows do still come through some, so it’s a “warm” color stain and if you don’t want that then this isn’t the stain combo for you. If we were to do it again, we might have tried adding in like 1/6th part special walnut or provincial to give a little more brown, but overall we are happy and it coordinates well as the hallway leads up to our kitchen which has natural light/med cherry cabinets and ivory tile flooring. I’ll try to post pictures…

Thanks! Looks great!

To the original post, what was the stain in the first picture from the original post/question?

Your floors turned out great!

We just had our floors refinished with a 50/50 mix of Duraseal Early American and Weathered Oak (added some photos), and I wanted to say thanks to this thread and OP -- it helped a ton.

Honestly, it felt like a bit of a leap. We'd seen a lot of people struggle with red oak, and not everyone loved how theirs turned out. We didn't want to go too dark, too light/gray, or anything super trendy. Going in, we kind of accepted that you can't really get a perfect mid-tone on red oak without some red/pink showing through. So the goal became working with the wood -- toning down the red/pink/orange a bit, lightening things up, and avoiding any lavender/mauve vibes.

In the end, we were aiming for something pretty timeless and low-key -- "boring" in a good way. Not something you are constantly noticing, just something that works and doesn't show every speck of dust or dirt. Basically, floors you don't have to think about.

We narrowed it down to either a 1:1 mix of Duraseal Early American and Weathered Oak, or Special Walnut and Weathered Oak. Felt like we couldn't really go wrong, but we ended up going with Early American and Weathered Oak. Overall, I think we landed pretty close to what we were going for and are very happy :)