Hi all - would love some ideas/assistance and advice.

A few years ago we refinished our original existing 1970s red oak parquet with 2 coats of Bona Nordic Seal and one coat of HD Traffic - and we *love* the result (see first picture).

Fast forward a few years and we are planning a kitchen renovation that has us extending the kitchen area (currently brown wood look vinyl floor) to include the dining area as well (refinished parquet).

Our first thought was to simply extend the parquet - with the same colour - into the approx. 200 sq ft of the existing kitchen - but our flooring guy told us that apparently it is impossible to get matching parquet in Eastern Ontario at the moment, so that idea is out the window.

Our second thought was to then simply remove the parquet in the dining room and install new red oak plank throughout the new kitchen area, matched to the existing parquet floor with Bona Nordic. However, the samples our floor guy just dropped off read much more pink that our existing parquet (see second photo). I know others have had this challenge with red oak & nordicseal, but perhaps we avoided our floors feeling too overwhelmingly pink given the various tones in the parquet....in any case, we really don't like the look of these samples.

Any ideas on how we might approach this? Remove all flooring and just install white oak or another wood to get the light but neutral look we are looking for? Any other ideas of how to salvage the parquet but tie it into flooring for the new footprint of our kitchen? Of course we could simply do a tile but it is a bit cold and hard on the feet in our climate. Thank you so much for your ideas!