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Floor to match antique heart pine

Lucy
7 years ago

Our home is from 1894 and has long board vertical grain heart pine throughout. The kitchen, however, and butlers pantry had linoleum tile. We have bumped out the kitchen by 5 ft, gutted it, and are turning the butlers pantry into a mudroom. A portion of the mudroom is open and connected to the dining room and the kitchen is also open to the dining room and mudroom. After demo we have found heart pine in the kitchen (with many areas requiring a lot of patching) and wide board spruce in the former butlers pantry. I got a quote to replace the mudroom that is adjacent to the dining room with heart pine and to patch and weave (including adding to the addition) heart pine in the kitchen. The quote is beyond our means. I then got another quote from the same company to replace the whole kitchen and mudroom floor with new flooring--which is half the cost of the other quote. The issue is what wood to use to ensure it works with the existing heart pine in the adjacent rooms. We have been given the option of rift cut red oak and vertical grain fir, but have heart negatives about both (oak blackening in a kitchen due to water, and fir being too soft). Any thoughts on what wood to use if we start over in the mudroom and kitchen? As you can see in the floor plan, there are no thresholds so we need a way to make the wood work/change directions of the wood. Thank you!

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