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Design Flaw?! Need help!!

gego
16 years ago

Help!! We're in the middle of remodeling the kitchen of our 30-year-old colonial. The POs created a walk-in pantry and coat closet by closing off a wall to the former dining room, leaving an open floor plan/great room. Our major stumbling block is the blank wall to the left of the pantry door, visually bisected by the change in flooring. We'd like to use this wall for cabinetry, but cannot decide what to do with the floor. We've been advised that, even with refinishing, it will be impossible to match the 30-year-old oak. The checkerboard vinyl was installed over an underlayment. Below that is the original vinyl floor which may contain asbestos and a sub-floor below that---no oak flooring there. The seam was covered by a metal strip.

The second pic (please ignore the wastebaskets!) shows how the floor continues by the peninsula and into our sunroom---the reason that we can't move the floor dividing line to the end of the pantry wall! Having moved a hutch to that wall, I can see that leaving the transition line where it is visually distracting.

We're open for suggestions in flooring, transitions and even a better use of the wall!



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