If you have room for all of them, plant em all and enjoy the faster growing ones as they get big fast and the slower growing ones will in time be worth the wait. I have a BURR oak that grows faster than my 2 Q. Alba's have, BUT, it was a special kind that came from a HUGE acorn that a fellow Garden web person gave me. I have several Red oak family oaks that have grown sorta fast BUT I also have some white oak family oaks that grow about as fast as the red oak family oaks. I think the site they are growing on also matters a good bit also. My 2 Q. Albas are pretty slow growing though, I must say, BUT, everybody has different planting sites. Sometimes with certain trees I do wonder, "is it the area the tree is in, or genetics?" I have 2 Q. Robur's I got at the same time from the same person, and 1 of them has grown like a freakin Jacks Beanstock and 1 has just done "average". Now, the "Beanstocks" place used to have some horse poop near it, BUT, the OTHER Q. Robur is really close to a, area where another but OLDER source of horse poop used to be, I have a shrub there that has been growing like wild in that space from that same soil where we used to have a horse barn for about 25 years, in other words that other Q. Robur that hasn't taken off like the "Beanstock" one has is very close to the area where that OLDER pile of poop was many years ago, and actually, once that Q. Roburs roots get to wandering around I thi nk that IT will also tap into that very rich soil. My "Beanstock Q. Robur was basically planted about 5 feet from where the horse poop pile had been about 10 years before I planted it, so, it surely had a nice amount of rich soil to tap into from the get go, PLUS, it was close to the house and I had surely watered it when it hadn't rained very often. That "Beanstock" Q, Robur has also put out a few acorns as of the last couple of years and it is pretty young, maybe 7-8 years old, that is a guess, I do have a bunch of pics with dates on them, BUT, for now, I'll just guess.

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The ORANGE you are seeing is the finish. The oil based polyurethanes are products that turn WHITE PAPER orange. It is called ambering. The red oak floors in the photo have been finished with an oil based finish. This is common practice but not currently attractive in today's 'white is best' flooring fashion. The issue I have with redoing the floors is this: The floors will loose 20 years of life if you sand/refinish them today. How do I know this? Because a site finished floor is supposed to offer 25 years of 'life'. A solid 3/4" hardwood (which I'm guessing this is) will offer 60 - 80 years of service (that's 3 sand/refinishes during it's lifetime). Each time you 'change' the colour (on a whim or due to current fashion) you cut down the life of your 'lifetime' floor. If you do this 3 times in 20 years (today, 10 years from now and then 20 years from now) you will have cut the life of your floor down to 40 years. That's half of it's natural life span. What I'm seeing as an 'issue' is the colour clash between the counter tops and the floors. The counters READ blue/gray, the walls read PERIWINKLE (which is a very difficult colour to live with/compliment) but the floors read cinnamon red/orange/brown. The biggest clash is in the kitchen with the wall colour and the counter tops are causing big issues. It would be cheaper, faster, easier to replace the counter tops. The wall colour is an issue for me (I'm not fond of periwinkle/lilac/blue). The rest of the house goes very well together. You have a traditional home with upscale traditional finishes/trim with a traditional wooden floor. The only issue I see is the colour clash on the walls/counters with the beautiful traditional wood coloured floors.

Texan here — in this size yard, I’d choose a red oak. I love both trees, but the red oak will grow faster and have the pretty colors. It’ll start looking like a leafy, shade tree sooner, whereas a live oak (small leaves) can take a while to start branching out. Both can be messy trees, though. Even though live oaks are evergreen, they do drop leaves/debris all year, and red oaks can get messy with acorns dropping. IME, it’s easier to grow a lawn or other things under red oaks. This is all personal preference on my part, based on having had them and been around them all of my life, and based on you saying these will be very young trees. I prefer live oaks on land, ranches, or large estates, and red oaks for suburban front yards. Others may feel totally different. ETA: There’s also Oak Wilt to consider, and although both can get it, it takes out way more live oaks in my area than reds. But I’m in D/FW, not sure about your area.