They are both excellent choices. Mirage has Nano Tech in their finish, making it superior.

Carly, please provide source for your floors, exactly what I’m looking for. Also thank you for post and thank you too other posters. I had just had floors done by a floor shop, two years of hospice requires me to redo them, seems a layer can be scraped up with a spackle scraper easily and turned dark ( like cherry wood does in sunlight but this was white oak ). So due to budget going to have to give this a go on my own. These posts priceless. After seeing this post and refinishing parents floor, I want your oak in my house … you did fantastic job.

Photos,please.

To stop fading you must stop the UV from entering. BTW, NordicSeal creates a frosted look on white oak. Now imagine that frosting looking MORE like frosting? Rarely have I ever heard of someone complain about their whitish floors getting WHITER! Right. Your floor will simply become more contemporary...not less. If you want to see what fading does, get the pro who does your flooring samples to apply a SECOND coat of NordicSeal on a sample patch (because you are going to ask for sample patches...because that's the smart way to do it right?). You will notice the slightly whiter effect in the sample. It will take YEARS for your floor to reach that level of frost...but it will eventually happen. Of course this is all assuming your windows are more than 15 years old. If you absolutely MUST HAVE the perfect colour of wood for the perfect amount of 25+ years, then you will need to update the UV rating on your windows. The problem with UV foils is they can cause damage to the older windows. The heat builds up between the panes and the windows break/fracture/explode. That is rare...but it has happened in the past and will continue to happen. Wood is a 'living' surface. It changes as it ages. That's its beauty. If you want the frosted look then go with 1 coat NordicSeal and let nature do the rest. If this is terrifying for you, then you will probably need to work with a faux wood look product.