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Flooring Design Dilemma

What’s the design rule of having 2 different wood tone flooring?

3 years ago

We have dark wood flooring in the main living rooms of our home. We want to replace the carpet in the bedrooms but want something lighter, but the current dark wood meets the doorways to the rooms. Is is okay to have a lighter wood look in the bedrooms or is that a design “no-no”?

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Sammie J
3 years ago
It would be best to match the existing wood, or at least pick woods with the same tones.
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Beth H. :
3 years ago
since they are bedrooms, you can get away w/something diff.

would you at least be doing the same species? or size?

I mean, I redid the wood floor in my bedroom. wanted herringbone floors. at the time, the pre milled herringbone was really only avail in Acacia. Which is fine. and I had Acacia in the hallway, although it was just regular planks. 4 years later, guess what? decided to redo the floors everywhere else in the house. didn't want acacia. So I did a French Oak. The master sits back from the hallway so no one can even see it.

Can you show us a pic of the current hardwood and how it relates to the bedrooms?
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Ginger Wood
Original Author
3 years ago
The hardwood laminate is in the upstairs hallway and game room and the bedrooms have the original builders carpet that is way overdue of being replaced. My husband wants to do another wood look but lighter and I’m just not sure about it since it transitions from the hallway into bedrooms. I’m leaning towards tile in the bedrooms.
Ginger Wood
Original Author
3 years ago
Or should I just use the same product in the bedrooms that is in the hallway?
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BeverlyFLADeziner
3 years ago
It would be better if it were continuous. To make the transition to the lighter wood you could border it with the dark wood.
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Beth H. :
3 years ago
ok, so it's laminate. you didn't mention that fact.

do you want to do another laminate in the bedroom? I'm sure you can find something similar that matches, but in a lighter shade. do a transition piece and you'll be fine.
SJ McCarthy
3 years ago
I always ask: How old is the laminate that you already have? Is it 3 years old or is it 13 years old? If it is still quite young, go ahead and put in a colour you want in the bedrooms and wait until BOTH laminates give up the ghost to get all the floors the same in the upstairs.

If the laminate is a few years away from being replaced, then I suggest you hold off finding another laminate just yet. If your laminate will only give you another 5 years (or so) then you will want to do one of two things:

1. Replace carpet with carpet and wait a few more years before you swap out ALL the floors for a single product.

2. Purchase ENOUGH new laminate to replace ALL the flooring upstairs in the new laminate. You can wait to pull the old laminate for another day...because you purchased all of the floor at the same time.

Be aware that man-made products suck as laminate (vinyl, factory finished hardwoods, tiles, etc) have a 'shelf-life' of 18 - 24 months. After that they are gonezo alonzo. Never to be found again. That's why you purchase everything all at once.

Plan ahead. Look into your '7 year renovation time line'. Look to see what else will need to be done in that time frame. If the old laminate is going to be swapped out, then PLAN for that. You never want to find yourself in the IDENTICAL situation 3 years from now...only to realize a little bit of thought could have saved you THOUSANDS of dollars.

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