Natural or 'raw' is very nice and very popular right now. Photos of what you have are needed for us to help beyond that.

About to refinish our red oak floors and im having such a hard time deciding! ive been leaning towards aged barrel. it is beautiful in the above pics, but I’m hopinh it isnt too dark. my stair treads are black, and i want a good contrast. the wood is also in the kitchen and kitchen will be all white. opinions, please please!

I am working on the same thing. I have red oak floors and want the light look, too.- although not quite as pale as the floors you linked. I had beautiful light white oak floors at my previous house using 3 different Duraseal colors. I've done tons of reading and it just isn't easy to duplicate with red oak. And some red oak is redder than others. I was told that country white on red oak will basically read pink. Since I don't want a pink floor that is out. Refinisher who only uses Duraseal recommended just a clear sealer which definitely won't give me the color I want. And I haven't found any Duraseal products that will give the right look- unless you possibly bleach the wood first. I don't want to do this, so I'm looking at Bona's Red Out product which is fairly new. I'm meeting with a new floor refinisher on Tuesday who has some other ideas as well. I can let you know his thoughts. And I'm not too worried about light floors going out of style. I live at the coast and light is always popular.

I recommend that you do not use minwax stain for your floors. Our floor guy used minwax and we ended up having to completely refinish the floors, Use Duraseal or Bona since those stains are made specifically for floors. Also although the names of the stain colors are the same each brand color is different.