Hi. My name is Justin and I'm from Portland, OR. I'm a general contractor but have a question for my own house that I will be doing some repair and new flooring.

Existing flooring is White Oak 2 1/4" wide. It had carpet over it and has some pretty dark stains. The home is about 1050 sq.ft. and about 400 of that flooring came up due to rot and being ancient vinyl. I just picked up about 400 sq.ft. of 3 1/2" wide oak for a very very good deal. I am trying to think of how to interact these two different widths that will look the best. The good part is that the 400 sq.ft. is all in one area so there are clear delineations. One thought is to run it perpendicular and take care to have a very sharp seam. The other is to run it parallel, but have some sort of contrasting threshold as a separator. I suppose if someone said to run them at a 45 degree to the existing floor I would consider it, but only if the others would look terrible.

I just don't know how it will look with different widths. Can anyone please share some insight? Any photos?

Substrate is post and beam with 2x6 tongue and groove. Existing flooring runs perpendicular to the subfloor.

Thanks in advance!

I can't seem to embed these images in the post so here are a couple of links to photos:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-n8M9 ... 54_587.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--1q- ... 31_576.jpg

To me it looks like the perfect scenario for running that area on a diagonal. I would install a header first. You can take some boards and loose lay/ dry run, to make sure you like that look, before going forward.

Thanks!

I'll lay some pieces down and see what it looks like. Does anyone have any photos of mismatched widths?