Floors are still in good conditions. If, you cannot make it work with your design idea and it fits your budget. Yes, replace it with what you want and works best with your design idea.

More windows in the kitchen.......where? Are you ripping the kitchen and if so to what cabinet finish? If you hate the floor and have the resources? Fine.....

Seems incredibly wasteful. The floors are very nice and your own tastes may change with time. 

Light, cool toned flooring has been trending for the past several years. Just like we're seeing warmer tones starting to trend everywhere, I suspect that within the next couple of years we'll start seeing warm toned flooring start to take over the trends and everyone will be rushing to figure out their previously light floors.

Wood floors are expensive to replace. Have you considered adding some light colored rugs to brighten up your darker flooring?

IMO change all the light bulbs to LEDs 4000K that alone will have ahuge effect on the brightness in that whole space . Powder rooms do not need windows at all and where do you plan to add windows in the kitchen ? Some area rugs will be a great way to tone down the floors

Are they solid hardwood or engineered? Can you refinish them? That would be less expensive than replacing them. If you can't refinish, then it's a choice involving cost and disruption. It's very expensive and disruptive to replace all the flooring in a home, and it's usually done when gutting most of the space. Only you can decide if it's worth the cost and inconvenience. Personally I love cherry wood, but not on floors, so I would tend to want to replace them.

If it is not manufactured wood, it comes from the Brazilian rainforest & would be not only a horrible waste to remove it but also ecologically (pick your negative adjective) as well.

I have hardwood floors throughout my home and have many wool area rugs for interest. Even in the kitchen I have black background wool rugs between my sink and island. The wool is dense so easy to wipe up spills before they soak in. You could put runners in your kitchen around the island if you want to break up the color you're not fond of. Same in the room with the fireplace. Put an area rug in the center and furniture surrounding it. Depending on your budget, area rugs can be purchased from inexpensive to quite expensive. There are many sites online selling area rugs for you to get ideas.

The Brazilian Cherry is beautiful. Work with it.

Have it sanded, bleached twice, sealed with Bona ClassicSeal and coated with one of their urethanes. Here's one we did in December on old Brazilian Cherry longstrip.

@nauna Thanks for your suggestions! I don't know where these wood comes from. Do you have any rug color/style/pattern that work with Brazilian Cherry?

@Diana Bier Interiors, LLC they are solid hardwood. actually I've done the refinishing but it still looks red...

Another idea is to paint them.

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@Patricia Colwell Consulting Thanks for your idea. Yeah I will definitely upgrade the lighting. Why doesn't power room needs a window? I re-edit questions description. You can see window position in kitchen. :)

@turtlexings24 yeah, that would be a huge cost, especially I need to resurface the stairs to match with the new wood floor color.

@JAN MOYER yes I am working on kitchen remodel. I plan to have windows on the east side wall and less upper cabinets. If I keep the cherry wood floor, do you any ideas on the cabinet finish? It is hard for me to find a matchy cabinet finish. That is part of the reason why I want to have lighter tone floor.

@G & S Floor Service thanks for your suggestion!

@Timothy Winzell your floor looks great! I've contractor refinished them already! They have sanded them and applied for three coatings I believe. They told me they could not change the color and overtime the reddish tone will come back eventually.

"Do you have any rug color/style/pattern that work with Brazilian Cherry?"

Your rug color/ style/ pattern comes from the furniture you're working with. Is your style traditional, contemporary, transitional, mid century 50s? No furniture, or window coverings are shown in the fireplace room so that's an unknown. If you put interesting area rugs down, fill the room with furniture, & artwork on the wall, the Brazilian Cherry will be a rich background but not the focus.

As for painted floors, they are fun but wicked to keep up. They scratch easily & quickly become an eyesore.

Here's a rather economical site that can give you a few visuals on area rug selections. https://www.homedepot.com/b/Flooring-Rugs-Area-Rugs/N-5yc1vZarjg?NCNI-5&searchRedirect=area%2520rugs&semanticToken=d00r20r01122000000_202203311807382207252256309_us-east1-zwz0%20d00r20r01122000000%20%3E%20%20rid%3A%7B79c2a672d1b63a5ebfe71cd68af405db%7D%3Arid%20st%3A%7Barea%20rugs%7D%3Ast%20pt%3A%7Barea%20rug%7D%3Apt%20lca%3A%7B502252%7D%20tgr%3A%7BNo%20stage%20info%7D%20nr%3A%7Barea%20rug%7D%3Anr%20qu%3A%7Barea%20rug%7D%3Aqu

I love the look, and I agree with others that rugs and furniture will go a long way in minimizing the redness you're not fond of. Just to add to the comment about bleaching (I can't imagine what that must cost) -- Bona also has other sealers (Natural Seal and Nordic Seal) which contain white pigment. I think you run the risk of pink floors if you use them alone, but applied after bleaching, I think you could get even closer too the color you're looking for. I'd love to see the finished product.

@nauna right now I feel like the house is more traditional style! I haven't bought any window covering and furniture yet. I prefer contemporary or transitional style that looks timeless and simplified!

I'd check out the link. Thank you so much! :)

You don't want cabinets "matched" to a floor. You want harmony. . and you want to consider the whole feel of the whole house.

Post inspo pics and remember evening , no matter what..........needs electricity. : )

If you are kitchen north/east and adding windows? View will be enhanced far more than natural light for the bulk of the da

@Mike you are right. My contractor said they could not bleach the wood. They already sand the floor and applied some coatings.

@JAN MOYER yeah.,.You are right. That is what I wanted to say. That is so hard for for me as I have no prior experience with remodeling.

You have multiple threads going on here. Started with the flooring and morphed into kitchen cabinets, etc. Focus on one at a time or you'll make yourself crazy! :>)

Although you feel your home has a traditional style, you can easily go into transitional styling if that is what you prefer. Go to a QUALITY furniture store, work with a designer (preferably one with an interior design degree), tell her your situation and let her lead you around with ideas. Of course few options are actually in store but you can be shown photos of what is available. Look on the internet as well. Don't buy cheap furniture as it doesn't last & you'll have the hassle of shopping for it again. If you need to buy one piece at a time, do it. Save and buy, don't put it on credit. Back to my earlier point, don't waste more money on your floors. Cover them with area rugs, find furniture, etc that compliments it and enjoy your new home. It's lovely!!

I'm pretty horrified by the idea of changing the stunning floors to the latest trend. Good grief, invest your money in gorgeous original art work, rugs, and furnishings, transitional lighting, and finishes rather than wreck those floors. You don't need to match the cabinets to the flooring--just get a color consultant to help you pick cabinets that work with the floors. Go for elegant modern. If you want farmhouse, you bought the wrong house.

Do you need new cabinets? I usually don't recommend the whole white cabinet thing, but if you want the kitchen to be much lighter, keep the floors but paint the cabinets and island base.

You need to find a flooring professional. Do your research and find a professional who specializes in floor refinishing.

The best place to start is by using the resources of the organization/s that create the standards followed by professionals:

https://www.woodfloors.org/find-a-professional.aspx

There seems to be a professional body for almost every aspect of, and material used in, a home remodel. You will do well to find people who are interested in maintaining their skills according to current professional standards.

@nauna lol yeah I should have mentioned earlier that I am working on kitchen remodel. I 100% agree with you, buy quality furniture! That is why you see my house is empty everywhere. Haha I don't even get a chance for furniture hunting!

@housegal200 Thanks for your beautiful kitchen pics! I love all white kitchen and also be afraid of that would make reddish tone even obvious!

I found a kitchen remodel idea that I may refer to. What do you think?

https://www.erinzubotdesign.com/blog/the-kitchen-reveal

I think your wood floors are gorgeous and look so stunning with your white trim and fireplace stone. But I don't have to live there and you do. :) I do think it's also terribly wasteful to just throw away perfectly good wood floors. If you absolutely hate the tone, I would definitely suggest talking to a wood floor refinishing expert to see if they could tone down the red rather than throwing them out and replacing them.

I would invest in big, beautiful, quality rugs before messing with those gorgeous floors. Large rugs, great furniture and lovely art will help reduce the issue you feel the floor is now.

Yep, I stated that above too.

@Natalie Rao. I'm not sure which photos you're looking at in your link. Something very important to keep in mind is that your house is basically empty--very little to pull the eye away from the floor. That's all you're seeing. If I were you, I'd hire a color consultant to help you pick out cabinet color and give you a color palette for your future furnishings, rugs, art work that will harmonize with the floor. (Do you need new cabinets? Those look to be in good condition and could be painted. ) Getting all these answers about different things can only get you so far. Color consultants aren't expensive since you seem to have a budget for redecorating.

@housegal200 thank you! I like your idea. Let me find a color consultant for my kitchen!

@NATALIE RAO, you stated that you have little experience in remodeling, and you are getting so many different opinions. Would you consider hiring a designer to help pull everything together? It would be a worthwhile investment in your home and your sanity!

@Diana Bier Interiors, LLC I'd like to but due to limited budget, I can only do one project a time. :(

@Natalie: While you may only be doing one project at a time, you need to have an overall future plan so you don't wind up with a patchwork approach. You posted a Design Dilemma just for the floor. Seriously, that's not how good design works. If you have a limited budget, many on here have given you answers that work about those floors: Keep your beautiful floors as they are. That will save you a lot of $$$. Use the savings to get professional advice on how to create a palette that works with those floors for future furnishings, art, gorgeous rugs, cabinet colors.

Do you really need to replace the cabinets at all? Are they in good shape already? You could paint them or reface them if you want something lighter--far more affordable than getting new cabinets. Again, a color consultant could help you. Do some Houzz and Google searches for "kitchen Brazilian cherry floors" and you'll get many inspiration photos. Choose some that seem to work and share them with a color consultant who may agree or offer alternatives you may not have thought of.

If you are considering removing the Brazilian cherry floors and replacing with LVP, STOP and think that over. Poor, poor choice.

As for how to make your home light and bright, the cherry floors will not stand in your way.

Make a plan.

Read this:

https://mariakillam.com/when-not-to-replace-your-floors/

@thinkdesignlive: Thank you, thank you for that great link on flooring, which pretty much supports what many here are saying. Keep what you have and spend the money on decorating. Maria Killiam is a powerhouse color expert and designer who also expressed what many of us are saying: forget the dreary grey wood trendy thing. It's (almost) over.

I have to reiterate on this thread, although it is months old. Please please don't tear out those beautiful (and expensive) real wood floors and replace them with plasticy vinyl or some other cheap substance. Luxury vinyl tile is neither luxury nor tile, it is plastic. Putting the name luxury on it does not make it luxurious. Brazilian cherry floors are beautiful, are extremely hard and durable, and though they may not be to your taste, they add value to your house. Do try to work with them.

I have Brazilian cherry in my dining room, and would like to do hardwood the rest of the downstairs, but not sure how to match it up… I’m going to post on the advice site as well! Thanks for any advice!

There is still plenty of Brazilian cherry being sold, so match what you have and it's all good. It's also coming back big time in reaction to the overly pale whitewashed floors. That cycle is just like it was in the 90's in pendulum swing reaction against the pale pink whitewashed oak of that time.

The color tone in your dining room can be for dramatic affect if yiou feel you can decorate the space to use that. Otherwise you can replace it. Pale brown European Oak is a different species then the North American White Oak of the 80s. The 80s Oak species is quercus alba. It has an open grain that finished dark with oil based poly. The grain got filled with off white or the wood was rift or quartersawn to deal with that. European Oak, quercus robur, is denser with less open grain and can be flat cut in wider boards to show off the grain structure when finished with water based poly in matte. Oil yellowed and water doesn't as much. Flat cut allows rustic grade boards with knots or prime without. You can get samples to check how the tones work with your floor.