Flooring dilemma
Shirley Hill
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Old home flooring dilemma-old parquet meets new flooring
Comments (5)Unless you are matching the finger parquet, you would go ahead and install a white oak floor that matches the kitchen (and the golden retriever:-). That will allow the parquet to be the "accent" all by itself. The second suggest I have....look to have the parquet refinished. It's looking a little tired. A little old. If the parquet is thick enough for a sand/refinish, I would look at doing that at the same time. You might just find the REAL colour of the wood underneath that old solvent based finish. The kitchen hardwood looks to be in good shape. It might need a buff and coat (a little abrasion and then a coat of new finish applied to perk it up), it might not. Again, while the professionals are in, have them look at it to see if it needs attention as well. With the work that probably needs to be done, you will most likely be out of the house for a week or two anyways...might as well get EVERYTHING done all at once to save you from having to bring them back in 5 years to do the kitchen/parquet....See MoreFlooring dilemma: Install new floors after closet system?
Comments (5)@ Patricia Thanks, that’s helpful. I see that Pax attaches to the wall but my thinking was that it still rests on the floor, I think? With that in mind, if we install the closet system before the floor, my thinking was that we would not install new floor under the closet boxes. - it’d just be bare. Is that considered acceptable? We’re not looking to resell, just don’t want to mess things up....See MoreHELP! How would you handle this flooring dilemma?
Comments (28)Update: we decided to just go ahead and install the floor, hoping that by culling some boards we would have a floor that we can live with even if the tone isn’t exactly what we thought we were getting. After opening several more boxes, it seemed like the ratio of light to darker boards was about even, and we actually liked the look of the lighter planks better. This is where we’re at after day one. We like it a lot! There are some planks that read pinker than others, but I don’t think it screams pink at all. Someone above mentioned that the floor will likely morph in color over time. We knew that was true with maple, but didn’t realize that white oak would do the same. That makes us feel even better about what the floor will look like in the future, more light brown tones. Thanks SO much for all of your suggestions and feedback, it truly helped us feel less desperate and more confident that this floor might just work out after all. I’ll post pics of it once it’s done-again, thanks so much and happy holidays Houzzers!...See MoreFlooring dilemma for upper level
Comments (1)I would at the very least attempt to use the same hardwood as the first floor....See MoreShirley Hill
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last monthThey definitely should blend if you can't match exactly. The old floors look like oak and the same width as the new.
We had the same issue--the old oak floors are almost 100 years old, not sure what kind of oak, the new white oak about 10 years. Both stained special walnut.
Here is where they meet--can you tell which is which?
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