Choose a darker brown wood for the rest, then have the jatoba refinished to kinda match.

What’s your goal?

There’s no such thing as blasphemy unless this is some historical relic which it obviously isn’t. So you have permission to ditch the cherry. But if you can’t afford to do hardwood everywhere we’re going to need more info on what you’re trying to accomplish. And need some photos of current situation.

A friend of ours covered his hardwood with LVP that matched his decor vs ripping out or refinishing. It was click in place so no adhesion/damage to hardwood underneath.

Plastic over wood seals in moisture and creates issues with mold and rot. And height issues at transitions. If someone wants plastic floors, they need to remove the wood first.

That is not true but there are issues with stacking types of flooring. IMO the best answer is to get a nice unfinished hardwood and have it and the old floors finished to match but it will not be cheap.IMO since only yhe litchen and DR are wood I think I would bite the bullet and have thm removed so you can do one floor everywhere. I do not think removing something you do not like is a bad thing.

So the goal is to have wood floors throughout the house. I do like the look of the wider plank and these are 2 1/2".

I have added photos of the existing floor

There is an environmental cost to removing perfectly good floors! I have cherry floors stained brown to remove the red tones and they are beautiful. You could also bleach them and then stain.

It's only 300-400 sf. out of 3600. Remove it and start new.

Not criminal. However depending in the transition between this area and the carpeted area to be replaced, you might be able to get away with staining to match closely enough with the new floor material. In my house I have a transition between kitchen (pine) and dining (oak) and the floorboard directions are perpendicular and different widths - the two were stain matched very closely, and it looks just fine. But it’s not open plan.

Does anyone know if bona red out would help with anything here, or a stain with green tones to desaturate the red?

If, you are going light, replace it with the specie you want. You will save a lot of time and frustration tryin to pick out a color that will work with two different species. That will most likely won't work and a color you won't be in love with.

Replace it with the specie you want and get the look you want. Save everyones time and sanity..

If, you are going dark, then install the same specie and stain it the same color. Eliminate the different species variable. It makes matching much easier.

Have the flooring you dislike removed carefully and donate it to Habitat for Humanity or a rebuild store.

If you go on YouTube you will find videos of contractors who have bleached and restained these floors. The cost is prohibitive and the results are only so-so.

You can stain them dark or remove them. It's terrible to have to work around a finish that you hate. I have never liked that coloration. Too hard to work with.

I wouldnt. I would be ecstatic to have real wood floors.

If the color bugs you, area rugs!

"If you go on YouTube you will find videos of contractors who have bleached and restained these floors. The cost is prohibitive and the results are only so-so."

The cost of bleaching Brazilian Cherry during a refinishing job is not particularly cost prohibitive when one considers current refinishing costs and compares it to replacement. If one is already refinishing, the cost difference is the added materials and labor. A major cost difference could arise if you're in a market where the only person with necessary skills charges a premium though.

Results are only so-so if the finisher doesn't know what they're doing. None of the ones I've done turned out remotely so-so.

That said, if your existing flooring is only 400' out of 3600', it seems foolish to add a bunch of wood to match what's not your ideal.

Here's the last one we did on a floor that was about 15 years old, bleached twice with two-part bleach (sodium hydroxide + hydrogen peroxide), sealed with Bona Classicseal and Bona waterborne urethane.

Before you tear the floors up, try adding a rug. Brazilian wood looks great with beiges, grays, creams.

I like this rug particularly because there is a a tone of the sideboard wood in the rug...an extra bonus and the lighter tones would work with the wainscoting paint color. If you order and like it in the room, I suggest you paint above the rail S W Agreeable Gray.

It also is sized for a runner.

https://boutiquerugs.com/products/cabacungan-washable-area-rug

Not enough prepositions in your sentences.

If you can’t afford wood, looks like you are going to waste money doing carpet again. Or live with icky carpet until you can afford to do something better. Vinyl is as expensive as wood. Good vinyl, anyway anyway. $1 clearance vinyl is the new choice for flippers who only warranty it until the house closes with the new owner

@Timothy Wenzell That floor looks fantastic. Great job.

I prefer the original.

I agree with the OP. Wider is better looking.

The days when wood floors meant solid thin strips are largely over. 8-11" wide plank flooring show off more of the grain flow and character of the wood with its tonal variations. And it stays a monolithic slab. This is the progress only available with engineered product. It makes better more economical use of a limited resource, maximizing the beauty with 6mm/1/4" veneer. Plenty for refinishing.

This is 11-3/8" wide by 10 foot long planks.

Even though I love cherry wood furniture, I don't think it's attractive as a flooring material. If you don't like it (it's very "stripey") then bite the bullet and get what you want throughout the entire home. And if you want a wider plank, get engineered wood, especially if you live in a humid climate. Wider planks will cup when exposed to humidity more than narrow strip flooring.

As Jennifer Hogan suggested, remove it carefully and donate it. Someone will find a use for it.

What color floors do you want in the house?

The floors dont have to match the rest of the house.

No they don’t have to-the design police won’t fine you- but it looks better when they do. 😉

I have an old house. We replaced the wide pine that was so old and broken you could see down through to the basement. But when it came to the living room, we retained the antique fir in perfect condition.

The idea of tearing out beautiful hardwood floors in order to install different beautiful hardwood floors just doesn’t make sense to me.

I understand what you're saying, auntthelma, and I would not tear out beautiful hardwood floors, but I would try to install something complementary. The OP said she doesn't care for her cherry floors, and they aren't antique wood, so I don't think it makes sense to keep them and install a white oak floor (for example) that doesn't work at all with the cherry.

I live in an old house too, from the 1920s. The original 2 1/2" strip oak floors are beautiful and in great condition, considering their age. When we renovated our kitchen, which originally had sheet vinyl, we installed 3" and 5" white oak, and stained it the same color. However, we built a very large family room years ago, and outfitted it entirely in antique heart pine. The room has a very different vibe from the rest of the house--it's much more casual but it is still a Colonial style, albeit more of a primitive look than the original part of the house. It has heart pine beams, flooring, fireplace mantel, door and window casings, and interior shutters. Recently we had to replace a very large window with smaller ones, and we needed to replace casings and moldings. Because we didn't want to spring for heart pine, we chose fir and are staining it to match. I don't think the design police are going to come in and charge us for this either!

Here's the transition between the new and old oak in the original part of the house:

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And here's the room with the antique pine:

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Both are beautiful.

Thank you.

I love those original floors. I don't mind the striping. Don't mind the reddish tones, you can work with it by toning everything down. I don't know how you get past being able to match it other than find someone who's really good at staining another species of wood. Wide plank has been in for a very long time and I'm kind of over it. (I have a wide plank very light tone floors. I hate them). Maybe we can swap! 😀