We are about to do a kitchen remodel and our red wood hard floors that are in the main living room, hallway and bedrooms will be carried through in the new kitchen. I don't like the red, orange or pink hue in red oak, but I need to make the best of it. I'm looking at all the pictures posted from 2 years ago and wondering how everyone is liking their floors. We are wanting to go light, to give a white oak look, but everything we see is too pick. We may just pick a medium brown, but not sure what color is best. Any thoughts or recommendations on either? We need to make decisions soon. Any tips would be appreciated!

Tear out Red Oak and replace with White Oak to achieve a natural look without pink/red undertones. Otherwise, look at medium-tone stain options. There are many threads here from people who tried to achieve a White Oak look with Red Oak and ultimately abandoned that direction. It is possible to bleach the floors but this is an EXPERT-level application ($$$). If you are committed to this look, I suggest you seek out a flooring professional who can show you real-life examples of successful applications. If your current flooring professional does not have examples of finished jobs that look like you want yours, chances are they will not be able to finish these floors to your satisfaction.

I like the color you have! It is classic. Maybe not "on trend", but it won't be the gray floor of 2017 for the next 40 years either. Anything "Medium Brown" will be classic. Achieving that on red oak is not always easy due to the red part of red oak. Seriously, though, there is no easy answer to this without samples on your floor in your lighting. You can't make your decision based on pictures on the internet because of the variations in lighting and whatever your monitor does to colors, too. If you can't slow the process down to get samples, I would make my own samples by getting some unfinished red oak and staining it yourself. Be sure to add the top coat to get a realistic idea of what it will look like. Then you can move the samples around. However, you need to know what brand of products your flooring professional is going to use. If you have that information already, please share it and the professionals here will be able to give you some input on the quality of the product.

You have white oak. You can use any color, justt water pop before applying the stain.