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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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***MrsRedRaiderGirl***
Thanks for your post about the wood floors. I am interested to know about your experience getting new wood to match existing floors.
We have engineered wood downstairs and carpet upstairs. One of our main concerns is that we'd have to tear up the existing wood because it would be hard to match. Was it difficult for you? I have no clue where the wood thats down now came from, but i do know what color was used to stain it. It would save us a ton of money if we could just get matching wood.
Thanks!
Re: ***MrsRedRaiderGirl***
When they installed our floors, you can't even tell the difference in the two types of floor. They did warn us that it may not match though - so we got lucky. One of the things we did to try and make it look less obvious was to remove some old HW from one room, so that we could finish out the kitchen and halls with same old wood, and then instlal new wood in the bedrooms. This way each room had the same age wood. If you know the stain color and wood type, that is half the battle I think.
For the existing wood, we did have them sand it down and restain it at the same time we had the new wood installed, just because they knew they wouldnt be able to match the coloring and weathering (our original floors were from 1940s). If you have hardwoods already, I'd try looking at places where you can have a logical break (doorways, walls, stairs, etc) where you can potentially switch to newer wood. If you're trying to match wood, i don't think you'll want to but it right up against new wood in an open space though, just b/c it wont be an exact match.