Hickory I believe it is Hickory. Hickory can be similar to oak in color but it does not have the intese grain and layers that Oak has. Variations in the grade of hickory can show different looking floors. So if you do a search for Hickory on the web you might see some far lighter or darker looks. Hickory flooring is somewhat of a mixture of woods. If you notice you will have some light pieces and some dark. That may be because you have different types of hicorky. True hickory and or Pecan hickory, Chinese Hickory, sand Hickory, pignut hickory, shag hickory, .... they can all show different color variation. Hickory is a hard wood. Really! It is hard to sand but it is a good quality wood that will last forever. Hickory used to be used to make baseball bats, canes, tool handles and anything that needed to be bowed. It can be flexible but still really strong. A great floor! Enjoy your hickory floor, it is beautiful. ~boxerpups

The amount of effort and money it would take to get this to work is getting into the same amount of money as floating a laminate floor over top and trimming all your doors. White oak is yellowish. Liming removes some of the yellow (not all) and adds a pretty "silver" appearance on the surface. Red Oak turns PINK in the presence of "white" or silver. Oh dear. Not good. Salmon coloured flooring went out with the 80's. You would pay your HIGH END professional (and I mean "artisan refinisher" who has an opening sometime next spring) to BLEACH the SNOT out of your red oak. Then some conditioning would occur. Then the the stain would be purpose mixed just for you. It could take several days for him/her to get it right. Then the application would happen and you will pay the astronomical price s/he asks for/deserves. If you try to find a "flooring guy" to do this, you will pay a better rate...but the failure rate will be SUPER high...and you will probably have to hire someone else to fix the mess created by the first "flooring guy". I will say this look is *possible with your floor but not *probable. The amount of effort you have to go through to get this "right" is huge. And the chance of failure is very very high (that's where the 'not probable' comes in = statistics term).

I ended up going with special walnut. One coat with a satin water based poly (not shiny). We love it. After the floor stainer put samples down of the lighter colors it really did look pink. I feared having my whole house “being ruined” so I went with the “safer” color and I couldn’t be happier. Someone gave me the advice that most of your hardwood floors will be eventually covered by area rugs anyways so no need to stress! The picture was taken at night with overhead lighting on. Not the best time to take a photo but you get the idea! Good luck!!!

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.