I'd leave it alone unless you totally sand down and do over. A buff will do nothing. It looks fine. I'd leave it : ) until scratched up and worn.

More important question? Why the change in flooring to the space beyond.........? The sheen is the least of the issue : )

One flooring as much as possible ....please.

Thanks for the feedback. I will very likely leave it alone, just hope it dulls a bit.

The whole house has the same floors, except for the bathrooms and the sunroom there ( which leads to backyard and pool) have the same porcelain tiles. Hard to tell from the pics but it looks amazing in person. The sunroom is on a slab, plus i figured with traffic coming in from yard/pool to use powder room, the porcelain tiles would wear better.

^ agree - it will not be shiny for long - to speed it along you could get a dog :)

Looks great!

I agree about the change in flooring. While you were at it why not have all the floors match. As for the sheen it will dull with use and cleaning.

Thanks everyone! Glad to hear that the consensus is that the sheen will dull to more of an actual satin with time.

As far as the change in flooring, I know to many I've committed a mortal sin by having multiple floors lol but it looks a lot better and makes more sense in person. I sorta wanted to highlight the sunroom as its own thing, and the powder room is attached to the sunroom, so the porcelain tiles are throughout that area. I actually improved the situation, because the entryway/kitchen had ugly red oak floors that didn't match the white oak in the rest of the house - now the rest of the house (save for sunroom and bathrooms) is all white oak.

And the sunroom had the ugliest carpet ever at first. That was torn out the day after I moved in :)

The floors are beautiful! Stop obsessing over them. 😉

Thank you! Bothering me and less and less every day hehe

They are beautiful! Did you stain them prior to applying Bona top coat?

Thank you! Yes, I stained then with a natural stain to accentuate the warm brown color. The previous red oak floors were so ugly, and always had a red/yellow undertone (even after staining them twice), and super loud grain. So glad they are gone. I hate red oak.

The new white oak is a pretty good match with the white oak in the rest of the house, but of course not exact, because the other floors are the original floors of this 1959 house!

They look fine. Try to end your obsessing and save it for your next project. Your wood floors are stunning! (I understand about the sun room flooring, but you’re gonna get hell from this Pro group…..) 😂

Haha thanks RedRyder! Yes, I'm already planning my basement for this spring hehe

I understand the idea behind uniform floors - it does make the house look bigger. When I bought this place, the first level had 3 different floorying types! White oak in fireplace room and dining room, ugly red oak in entry way and kitchen, and then horrible carpet in sunroom. The sunroom has high ceilings and I guess I wanted to highlight that room, since it's a big part of why I fell in love with this house. It makes a lot more sense in person, and has worked well during summer pool parties where people walk in with wet flip flops to powder room!

Sun rooms need a tile floor, period! They do not need a wood floor., especially with a pool.

THANK YOU SHERRY!!!! lol plus the porcelain tiles I picked are matte (not glossy), so while they do have a nice sheen, they are not slippery at all, even when wet from the pool.

Acutally, come to think of it - the bottom level of my colonial had 4 flooring types at first, because the powder room had black tiles. Now it's:

Entryway, kitchen, dining room, fireplace room - white oak

Sunroom and attached powder room - same porcelain tiles

Adding another coat could be counterproductive. With each coat, the floor gets smoother. A smoother floor can appear to be more glossy because the surface grain gets filled and doesn't break up the reflection from light sources.

At some point in the not-too-distant future you'll need another coat once you've worn the floor. That will be the time to apply a Matte finish coat.

If you're unconvinced, consider this. What happens if you put on a coat of Matte now and there's a problem, like streaks or dust/trash in the finish? Add another coat? And then another?

I think your floors are beautiful!

I like a shinny floor (not high gloss), it looks clean to me.

Agreed Timothy, I'm definitely convinced now that the best thing is to do nothing. As I said, the shininess is bothering me less and less with each day, and I'm pretty confident it will dull to a more satin finish over time.

I don't necessarily expect perfection. There are some areas with light streaks (only visible if you really look for them) and some particles in the finish - but life is imperfect. It was just my initial reaction to the extra shininess where I was taken aback, but all good now.

Question though - let's say I wait a few years, and then the floor starts getting scratches/scuffs on the poly. Am I able to just buff and do another matte coat (since I'm already at 4 or 5 coats)? I only would ever want to sand these floors if absolutely necessary.

Absolutely. Buffing and recoating is the longer term professional maintenance recommended. That's why it's important to use a proper cleaner, to avoid buildup and ensure adhesion. Bona has a product called Prep that's deep cleaner/adhesion enhancer. We generally spray it on and buff the floor wet with an abrasive nylon pad before recoating.

When you have the overheads on, as in photo #1, yes the floors look glossy. With natural light they look perfect. My objection for sheen is when a home has floors which look like a bowling alley. Yours do not.

I was trying to remember how my 1800's original pine floor was refinished...the fellow was terrific. I think he did two coats gloss and the 3rd ( top) low gloss.

I am showing my photos a lot lately, but posts and my photos seem to coincide.

I used Bona for cleaning

At some point you will, but I still see some surface texture in your pics. This is a reason why I don't encourage people who want a bunch of coatswhen new, presumably for durability. I could understand on a commercial floor, but for most of my residential clients, when the floor gets scratched and and dingy, they want a recoat to bring it back up to par.

I once had a client where we recoated her natural color floor with oil poly, giving it 4 coats total. A housekeeper walked on it, requiring coat #5. The gate guards were instructed that nobody enter and the key was put aside, yet another housekeeper with their own key went in before dry, requiring coat #6,which was a success. When the owner saw how smooth the floor was she contracted us to refinish the floor after season ended, because it looked like a sheet of plastic.

Judianna, your floors and house are beautiful!

Timothy, wow, that's a crazy story. Makes me feel a bit better because my situation is sorta similar in that I ended up with too many coats due to various issues that took place that were out of my control.

Definitely going to leave the floors alone for the forseeable future. You guys are helping me embrace the slight glossy-ness hehe. And like judianna said, in natural daylight, they look perfect. And I never have the high hat lights on anyway, so rarely have to see how glossy they look with overhead light.

While you’re enjoying your new-looking floors, research Mr. Sandless (or just ‘dust free’ floor refinishing). It’s a refresh for floors like yours. It takes an hour for them to clean and add a thin, thin coat of finish. It’s nowhere near the headache of refining and getting massive dust everywhere.

We redid a few beat up rooms in our previous house and it looked fantastic.

Enjoy your stunning floors!

Thanks RedRyder! I will definitely look that up. it seems like a great option I can use in the future to avoid having to sand and start from scratch.