Just found this forum today and registered a few minutes ago. I'm looking for suggestions to my problem.
I have an open floor plan style kitchen that combines a small "family" room with the kitchen. The kitchen floor is sheet vinyl and abutts against the oak flooring in the family room. The "family" room is really too small to use as a real family room , so we use it as an extension of the kitchen with a table and oak hutch. I would like to remove the sheet vinyl and install matching oak flooring so it looks like one large kitchen instead of two individual rooms. I am a total novice concerning hardwood floors and I am puzzled as to how you "splice" into an exhisting oak floor. The end of the oak floor terminates in the middle of the room with one long board perpendicular to the oak boards. If I butt the new floor up against this end board, I'll have a matching oak floor where the vinyl was, but the room will still look "divided" with this long perpendicular board in the middle of the room. Can you "weave" a new floor into an exhisting one thus eliminating the perpendicular board in the middle of the room? I will probably hire an installer to do this. I just wondered if its possible. Thanks
Ray

Yes, it can be done and I do it all the time. However, some types of wood floors make this quite difficult. If your existing floor is a factory finished engineered floor glued to concrete, that's the more difficult kind to lace into. Plus, your old floor may not be made anymore and the T&G profile of a new floor may not fit the old one. Another issue is that the existing floor may have too thin of a top veneer to sand, making a color match quite difficult as well. The best type of floors for lacing into are solid wood floors that can be refinished. Also, floating floors are not real good candidates for lacing into. It really depends on what you have now. Have a local, experienced wood floor professional take a look and give you some options.