I just removed the wall between my kitchen and my dining room. Both rooms have hardwood floors, but I just found out that the kitchen has a red oak floor and the dining area has white oak floor. Replacing either floor is not an option. I’m looking for ideas for a way to make the transition between the red and white oak floors, filling in the area where the wall was. I thought of using some kind of decorative hardwood pieces, but I don’t know where to find out about them. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
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any floor supplier (or even Home Depot's Expo Center) will be able to sell you the laser cut decorative inlays for floors.
you can also get them here, http://www.inlays.com/
It sounds like this is a good solution for your problem.
Thank you! That's just what I had in mind. Happy New Year!
Anything will work for a transition, even some of one of the floors.
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