It's just you. However I would just be a guest telling you what a fabulous floor you have and you will be living with something that bothers you. I don't know enough about wood to advise to refinish and tweek the colour or not. Perhaps once the colour is different you will not mind the lines so much.

Do you know how many times this floor has been refinished? You need a professional to tell you how much sanding it can take. Yes wood floors can be stripped, sanded, restained (or not) and new poly applied. Often the orangey tone is the poly. Sanding the stain out of the flooring and applying fresh modern non yellowing poly will lighten and brighten the floors. If your floors have been sanded/refinished too often then no, but most floors have 6-10 refinishing's in them. To my eye your floors are stained rather light, so not sure if there is stain on them at all. But the poly has turned and the orange can be removed. The older listing looks darker did they redo the floors in between? Best practice would tell you to start in a closet see what change can be made.

A gentle refinishing with a water-based poly will come out lighter and less amber, orange tones can be muted by adding green to the sealer or a toner coat (Bona Red-out is a product for this purpose) at the expense of a slightly darker tone. Most definitely recommend testing the whole finishing schedule in a small area before doing the whole floor.

The picture frame layout of the flooring is considered by most old house lovers to be a very highly desirable, premium feature and sign of quality construction-- it's a lot more work to install that way. I'd suggest living with it for a while and (hopefully) coming to love it.

Thank you all! Your advice is so helpful. Much appreciated.

I agree with Diana in that I don't think a light floor is the right choice for this home. In the photos, I prefer the bit darker tone of the last pic, IMO it's rich-looking against the gorgeous dark wood trim. Concur you have to have a good flooring guy come out and advise you. I don't know if I would like living with the asymmetrical border but I'd have to see it IRL to judge that, but I'd say it if bugs you then change it.

I think I would just refinish in all the same color and I bet in a very short time you will forget about it . I like it because it is not cookie cutter and you are saving huge if you keep what appears to be flooring in good shape,

I get all the info and then think about options. What wood species is it. From the width of the planks I'm guessing those are not 132 year old. The floors are not a heritage component. What wood is the trim and doors. Those are a big part of the yellow/orange color.

Just curious how you know the width of the planks and that they're not original to the house?

What a beautiful heritage home! It reminds me of the hundreds of beautiful homes in Buffalo, NY. The woodwork is stunning and your floors appear to be original 2-2.5" strip oak. I'm not sure if it's red or white oak but a good flooring person should be able to let you know. I agree that it's most likely the oil based finish that is causing the orange hue. Water based finish won't amber like oil based will. They would be beautiful in a natural finish with a satin topcoat.

I happen to love the border! It looks like it was beautifully done.

There seems to be a lot of different medium brown colors in the wood you have (not counting the floor): the door and door frame aren't the same, the stairs are different from the baseboard, the newel post and railing look much newer, and yet another color.

For that reason, I would sand to bare wood, and use no stain. I agree that water-based finish will eliminate the amber color you have now.

Here's our floor (red oak, no stain). We went with a medium brown stain on the new kitchen cabinets