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Ponytail

Ponytail

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Transitioning from light to dark wood flooring, from room to room, is pretty easy. There's a couple of things you can do. You can use a border which is expensive but REALLY nice, or do your own border in the new room using some of the wood from the previously finished room or even something completely different color or wood type.

http://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwoodinstaller/hardwood_flooring_borders.htm

http://www.hardwoodfloors-charlotte.com/patterns.htm

http://www.aboveboardhardwoodfloors.com/ABGallery2.htm

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Chasey_Lane

Chasey_Lane

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crabcake said:
I'm leaning more toward the lighter of the samples as well. I'm afraid of the dark/light contrast once it's down. I love the handscraped look/texture, but wish it came in a lighter color. :ohwell:
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I like darker would and I like your largest sample color. Your furniture is dark, so IMO, a darker wood would look better than the light bamboo color. But they're all nice colors. :smile:
 
huntr1

huntr1

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crabcake said:
I've decided to replace the carpet in the family room with hard wood flooring. The rest of the downstairs has 2 1/4" x 3/4" red oak w/a satin finish. I want to do something different in the family room, but the existing wood floors butt up to this room, so both will be visible to eachother and connect (if that makes sense).

Given the family room has the fireplace, I'd like to redo it in a cozy, lodge feel. I'm looking at a darker, handscraped oak floor (smaller of two dark samples); a darker, handscraped bamboo sample (bigger dark sample); and an australian cypress that is lighter, but makes for a damn beautiful floor. Both the dark flooring types are in 5 inch wide planks, and the cypress is in a 4-inch wide plank; all are solid and also 3/4" thick so the floors will all be on the same level.

My concerns are:

1) Is a darker flooring (regardless of whether it's oak or bamboo) too 'drastic' a contrast from the red oak; therefore, maybe go with the cypress?

2) If I do go with the darker option, which product would you recommend -- the oak or the bamboo (they're comparable in price, so that's not an issue)?

Thoughts? Opinions? :tap:
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I take it you ended up buying the place you were renting?
 
jazz lady

jazz lady

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I love, love, LOVE my Bruce hardwood floors. I spent quite a bit of my flooring budget on them when I had the house built but it's well worth it. :yay:

If I had the money, I'd rip out the carpet in the bedrooms, office, and game room and replace it with hardwood floors. I opted for the lighter oak flooring to keep the house with a 'light and airy' feel to it but if you have lots of natural light, dark woods would look great, too.
 
crabcake

crabcake

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jazz lady said:
I love, love, LOVE my Bruce hardwood floors. I spent quite a bit of my flooring budget on them when I had the house built but it's well worth it. :yay:

If I had the money, I'd rip out the carpet in the bedrooms, office, and game room and replace it with hardwood floors. I opted for the lighter oak flooring to keep the house with a 'light and airy' feel to it but if you have lots of natural light, dark woods would look great, too.
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I loved the Bruce flooring when I looked at it as well. I had considered the medium colored oak strips for my house up there if I was going to stay in it. But I'm with ya; eventually, I might rip out the carpet in the bedrooms as well, replace with wood, and be done with carpet for good. :yay:

The room I'm planning to do has a lot of natural light (3 standard windows, a big 4x4 picture window, and a door with windows in the top. Now, granted, the light is shaded by the mass of trees, so it's light, but not direct beams into the room, if that makes sense.

One of the flooring guys I'd talked to said that it's VERY hard to match up floors, so to just go with something completely different, thus the consideration of the darker products. But the Aust. Cypress is really pretty, has the knotty look I like, and is a pretty good match in color to the existing floor. In the end, I'm thinking that's what I'll go with.
 
Vince

Vince

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Did my kitchen, dinning room and hall in hardwood. Put the laminate in there, but when I do the living room I'm going to go with real hardwood. The laminate looks great and the dog can't scratch it up no matter how much she slides around and digs her claws in. Funny as hell to watch the little sh!t try to get traction on that flooring. :lmao:
 
jazz lady

jazz lady

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Fyi...

the latest issue of Consumer Reports has a nice article on flooring buried in their piece on 'Dream Kitchens.' In the prefinished solid wood category, Bruce rated the highest. :biggrin: They also did tests on engineered wood & bamboo, plastic laminate (which they rated very highly), vinyl (again rated very high), and Linoleum. Very interesting article. :yay:
 
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Speedy70

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jazz lady said:
the latest issue of Consumer Reports has a nice article on flooring buried in their piece on 'Dream Kitchens.' In the prefinished solid wood category, Bruce rated the highest. :biggrin:
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Ours is Bruce. Good to know this info! :yay:
 
Sharon

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Everytime I see the title of this thread and Crabby's name under it I quack up. :killingme
 
crabcake

crabcake

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Sharon said:
Everytime I see the title of this thread and Crabby's name under it I quack up. :killingme
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C'mon now, you know I've got bigger balls than most men out there. :really: :lol:
 
kwillia

kwillia

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dustin said:
I think you should go with the dirt flooring. Just think about it? No more vaccuming or sweeping!
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Dude, with your luck the dogs would track in grass seed and then you'll end up having to listen to Nickel biatchin' about mowing the kitchen...:lol:
 
Nickel

Nickel

curiouser and curiouser
kwillia said:
Dude, with your luck the dogs would track in grass seed and then you'll end up having to listen to Nickel biatchin' about mowing the kitchen...:lol:
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Dog, singular. Dog #2 is looking for a new roommate. :lmao:
 
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