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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes we did. At their best, they’re never going to look super up to date. And I doubt the mid 90s orange look with thin strips will ever come back in, despite what the previous poster says.

But water based top coats are much better than the oil ones of thirty years ago, which naturally hued red - and on red oak, really went ugly orange. So with todays water based clear top coats and no stain or I believe a green undertones stain (but double check me on that one - there’s an undertone that helps tone down the red), you can get them into a more neutral brown with slight pink undertones that’s more palatable. They’re never going to look like todays popular wide plant rift sawn white oak, but you can get them to not look so vile and be more neutral - which is a start!![/quote]

agree with this.  We refinished the red oak strip floors in our 1960 split and used water based on our 2nd floor when we moved in and oil based on the first floor as part of an addition/ kitchen remodel 5 years ago because we extended the floors into the kitchen and I wanted a durable finish there that would repel water.  The water based floors are definitely more neutral brown and less orange than the oil based.  We added no additional stain, just the clear coat.  In hindsight I would have done more research on the water based finishes.[/quote]

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