Minwax is the stain choice that most diy bloggers use.
17+ Red Oak Minwax Classic Gray Stain. We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. I don't really know what i mean by that, but it seems to have no life to it, and it.
Note:the stain goes on pine and whitewood very differently. The flooring company we hired uses a water popping. Much more pigmented than the other samples, although not quite as much as the general finishes one.
I've been using minwax classic gray until now, not always loving the darkness of the gray that comes out of that stain.
Minwax is the stain choice that most diy bloggers use. Jacobean was way too dark. Stain colors available are any minwax oil or water based spray and wipe stains. Briarsmoke is my long lost medium stain that i've been searching years for.