Makin' plans...

Looks like I'll be meeting with three alarm system companies and three flooring companies over the next few days. I'm getting quotes on installing a new alarm system, as well as prices to refinish the wood floors. Two rooms have beautiful yellow pine, but they could use a good cleaning and another coat of polyurethane to bring out their great color. A third room has dreary oak floors. I'm in a quandary with this room. These oak floors butt up against the yellow pine, which causes them to compete against one another. I don't want that, because the pine will always win as far as brilliance goes. So... I'm thinking since it can't compete, to go 180-out and let the oak have it's own uniqueness. I have to allow the oak to look completely different than the pine, which means either bleaching it so it's really light with more of a no-color look, or staining it a dark, dark walnut. I think both would be beautiful, but I'm leaning towards the walnut.