Yes. No matter what your red oak wood is used to build, bleaching it with a hydrogen peroxide and lye solution will strip the color. It doesn’t matter if the wood is used for furniture, beams, shelves or floors. If it’s made from red oak then it can be lightened with a bleach solution.

Can you bleach red oak to look like white oak?

Drawbacks to Bleaching Red Oak The process of bleaching wood always inherently runs the risk of harming the integrity of the actual wood fibers. It’s always tremendously easier to stain a white oak darker than it is to remove the red oak hue.

Will bleach lighten oak?

The best woods for bleaching include oak, beach, ash, and gum. Varieties like poplar and pine are already so light that removing further natural wood color might render them bland and lifeless. Others, like cedar, redwood, rosewood, and cherry don’t take bleach well.