Bleaching a wood floor isn't a big deal, especially compared to the entirety of work required to sand and refinish. It's the best way to counteract the red in Red Oak if you want a light color. What your suggesting could be problematic depending on the finish you're using. Rubio has a product called precolor Aqua (http://www.monocoat.us/precolor-aqua/) that's white with a minty green tone, but it's meant to be used with their oil finish. It's hard to apply uniformly. lazy_gardens and Couture are correct. If you bleach a floor then apply a standard green tinted stain, the wood will absorb the green stain and be too saturated to accept the white pickle. Also, since Red Oak is very grainy, you stand the chance that the green will concentrate in the soft grain and accentuate it. The Rubio product is mopped on and left. A better idea would be to bleach the floor twice, apply white pickle and a coat of sealer (we use BonaSeal which I think is now called ClassicSeal). Once that is applied you can evaluate the color and determine whether to tint the first finish coat slightly green. You could use a closet floor or an area that will be hidden to do samples. Beware that tint coats can change color as they dry so if you do a test, let it dry completely before deciding. After a tint coat you'll need a clear wear coat. Once the floor is bleached, pickled and sealed you might determine that the slight rosy tone doesn't bother you and you can just apply clear coats.

Were you instructed to purchase all 4 cleaning and maintenance products??? You would do very well to have the refinisher come in and (purchase all products from him/her) show you how to maintain your floors. You will probably pay $50/hour for this 1-2 hour tutorial. You and the refinisher will work these spots together and apply the finish oil to bring back the original look. And then you will learn your weekly, monthly and yearly maintenance requirements for an oiled floor. As pretty as these floors are, they take work. Much more work than a polyfinished floor.

You could ask the flooring guy to give you a new sample, now that you know the first one is too pink. You would do that if you want to preserve the parquet. Or you just remove the parquet and replace with whatever you want. You still want to see samples. Be sure that the samples have the top coat, and not just stain, so you can see the true final results.

To update, our floors were completed. Our transition spots are actually fine. We left the floors natural, which is what I wanted from the beginning. I love all the different shades and patterns. It was unfortunate but we had a problem with the floor install. Their work was sloppy, bad cuts, bad filler etc. I didn’t want them back in the house but we decided to give them a chance to make it right. They are done and gone and our contractor will deal with them. There are a few spots, ugly cut, mismatched sloppy filler spot and a couple of others that I am not happy with. We are going to get some fresh eyes on it to see what they could do to repair. Anyone else has this problem and resolve it?