Yes, I've seen the chart, but what would be a similar tone to the golden pecan but less pink? And way too light compared to what? The teak floor is parquet and many of the parquet pieces are that light. The golden pecan actually looks great except for being slightly too pink. And going darker will emphasize the oak grain.

Use painted handrails. Try a soft satiny black. Zero conflict with anything. No law says a handrail must be stained.

I'm assuming the teak looks like this since you didn't supply a picture of the flooring. Thats why I'm suggesting a finish darker than Golden Pecan

It's hard to tell actual colors on Houzz I guess because when I saw your photo I was like "Oh wow, no mine is much lighter." But now that I have uploaded my photo it appears much darker on my screen than it does looking at it in photo viewer. So maybe yours isn't as dark as it looks either. But mine is indonesian teak parquet, 20 years old, refinished 6 months ago with no stain, just clear coat. Some sections are very dark, some are very light, the overall effect is medium. No on black; there is none anywhere in the house, but I could just paint it white like the railing on the next flight. The white gets dirty though and needs painting often so I would like to replace both with stained ones. (Just uploaded a second photo, the first shown here, and is more accurate.)

Special Walnut?

Saw that one on a real sampe at the store and was thinking of trying it. Thanks for the validation.

Thanks. As I said, black would look terrible in this house. But green should neutralize pink so I was looking for one that would have a green undertone. Nice to know Spanish Oak does.

And I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying I want something dark in this space? The floor is not dark! There are very few dark pieces, mostly light to medium. And the walls are white. The golden pecan actually is the perfect amount of light/darkness, my only complaint is that it's not taking out the pink. So something that light with a greenish undertone to cancel more pink would be perfect.

I have unstained red oak in my house. The initial pink tinge didn't last long. It all became golden in short order.

I'd try Special Walnut or Early American. I seem to remember both being more yellow than I wanted when we refinished our red oak floors.

I got a bunch of stains to test, and while the walnuts and oaks match, we hate the dark grain they make in the oak. It just looks too much like 80's oak furniture.

Some things about stain are so puzzling.

- I have no idea why even a light stain like golden oak makes the grain dark, when golden pecan and colonial maple don't. Do some intentionally have lighter bases but darker solids so they deposit the dark into the grain? We much prefer the no-grain ones.

- Why do golden pecan and colonial maple look indistinguishable on my sample, but light years different on the Minwax color chips of the same wood?

Well those are rhetorical questions, unless someone knows the answer.

Since the teak floors get more orange as they age, and the Minwax color chip shows colonial maple as more orange than golden pecan, maybe I'll use colonial maple.

Maybe try applying a wood conditioner before the stain, to help even out the tone between grain and non grain. Not sure if your refinisher wants to do that though.

Do not use Red Oak stain on Red Oak (as is suggested in first comment) unless you want serious red output. No clue how that could be considered an orange option.

How about the Pickled Oak to pick up the lighter tones in your floor?

This thread died a year ago! Do you really think she's still waiting to decide?

Don't resurrect dead threads--that's a universal rule in the internet (except in the Zombies forum).