DIYbanter - View Single Post - Transition from 2 1/4 wood flooring to 3 inch

aemeijers

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:14:26 -0700 (PDT), stryped wrote:

On Apr 5, 2:11 pm, "chaniarts"
wrote:
stryped wrote:
I have 3 inch floorin gin a dinning orom and carpet in the adjoining
living room. I got a good deal on some 2 1/4 inch flooring that nearly
matches the three inch. Is there a good was to transition from one
size to another to make the size difference less apparant? The rooms
are separated by a wide "doorway" without the door.
that's what they make thresholds for. i'd use a nice marble or granite one
that was the same height as the wood flooring.
I guess what I am really aying is, is there a way to minimize the
visual aspect of the size difference? Bothe sets of wood are 3/4 inch
tall. One is 2 1/4 inch wide and the other is 3.

If you make the saddle the width of the door frame it won't look all that bad.
The two floors will be separated by enough that the eye won't follow the lines
from one floor to the other. You might try a piece 4-1/2" wide of 5/4 wood of
the same species as the floor as your saddle. A contrasting stain might be
nice too. That way you don't have to match anything perfectly.

The other alternative is to run the boards on the new floor orthogonally to
the old floor. What you're really trying to do is make it so the joints don't
line up - almost.

Got a router, or know someone who does? A buddy of my brothers, three
cities ago, had a similar situation. He found a wide plank of the same
wood for the threshold, routed a design in it, and filled the grooves
with wood of different colors. Pinned it all together with epoxy so it
wouldn't fall out, and urethaned the hell out of the top. Nobody notices
that the floors on either side don't exactly match.

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