Non home theater question

Is the other side going to remain tiled?


One option is to get a flooring person to match color/stain and put the new boards perpendicular to the old floor.


The more costly/more work option would be to remove sections of the old hardwood, add extra pieces that are matched (like the other option) and restagger the floor. You don't want to just add more hardwood have have a not staggered seem were old meets new.


Hope that makes sense. But in either case, I think it's possible.

See what I said I leave stuff out!


Yes I'm sorry I am going to rip up the tile and old linoleum to expose the original hardwood, which I'm sure will need to be refinished. So my thought and line of questioning eludes to having the refinishing guys restagger the newly exposed area where the gap is located.


Now do I make sense?


So what do you think that will run, I know there are going to be differences in region, and company and so on, but ball park it if you can! Thanks

Thanks for the input though Toeside!

Looking at the picture I see that there is quite a bit of variation in the color of the existing wood. That's good news because any thing within a fairly broad range is going to match something. And since you are going to refinish all the better, you will be sanding down below the aging so just put a matching specie's of wood in. I'm not sure if this would work but what about just running strips at a 90 degree in that gap. I guess with a straight edge guide and a finish blade in a circular saw you could straighten up where the existing ends finish. Then cut and put strips in perpendicular in gap.


In my house the hallway was wood while the kitchen was Linoleum. We had matching wood put in kitchen. The lay of the hall didn't match the direction of the kitchen it was off by 45 degrees so a transitional strip was put down between. It looks fine and unless you point it out nobody notices.

As far as cost goes, here's an educated guess based on what I know: $2/sq. ft. to sand only, ~$6/sq.ft. for popular woods...expensive no doubt. But, floors like that can last a hundred years or more, and they're just plain gorgeous. I think most companies do free estimates, so ask around for some referrals.