How to Match Your Existing Hardwood Floors When Renovating

Hardwood floor installation is a tricky business, down to selecting the right flooring to match what you already have in your home. The fact is, due to lighting differences, atmospheric effects, and other factors, a piece of flooring can have one appearance in the showroom and turn out to look completely different once you have it in your home. That’s why you need to have a tried and true method for matching your flooring to your new selections whenever you renovate your floors.

Unfortunately, there’s no single method that can let a do-it-yourselfer accurately match the exact look and color of their home floors without bringing the new flooring in and examining it side by side. That’s why you need to make sure you have expert professional help. When you work with professionals to renovate your floors, you can simply show them the original work and let them decide how to best match the new flooring to the old.

Since flooring can change color as it ages, and aging also tends to change its finish unless it is perfectly preserved, you would need an extensive skill set to modify any newly installed flooring until it has the right patina to blend in seamlessly with existing woodwork. It’s not something that can be instructed in a few lessons like many home improvement projects, but it is something the right flooring professional will be prepared to do. The best part is, when a professional fits new flooring to an older model, you can count on the work to continue aging in parallel to the original flooring, because you know you are working with an expert who understands the materials.

Hardwood floor installation doesn’t have to be a difficult project, it can be an investment you make in your comfort and your home’s value. Make the investment in your home by calling a professional today.