I'm a huge fan of keeping original floors if they can be refinished. To me, there is nothing like it.

looks pretty good to me. Good flooring guy can lace in boards if it needs to be repaired, hard to beat the original character.

I was a little bit skeptical but now I am rethinking

yes, looks as though it was tiled to be in style, not because wood floor was ruined. restore it.

Looks good to me. I'll bet this will finish up beautifully.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is an old "subfloor" and perhaps not a "wood floor" at all. We see this slatted wood subfloor quite a bit. That doesn't mean you can't refinish it. You certainly can. What it means is you will need to live with the little gaps you see between all the planks. If you wish you can have these diminished by adding "string" of a form of filler, to the gaps to allow the colour/finish to "jump" between planks...but you don't have to. And most will recommend AGAINST filling the gaps.

A decent restoration of this strip planking should be (roughly) the same as a new floor (materials + installation). There appears to be some sort of issue with "level" which would have to be corrected if you decided to install another floor over top of this one. If you leave it and have it restored/finished, you don't have to "eat" that extra work needed to level the floor.

You can work with a medium tone brown (with a hint of gray if you like) and that will work well with the nail/screw holes in this floor. It will be rustic looking but perfectly acceptable...even fashionable.

It looks to me like is an old 1912 style wood floor, that over the years has lost it's sheen.
If you are feeling adventurous you can rent a sander and do it yourself. look up "how to it" on the internet or ask the rental place. A warm light chestnut would look really nice.

Keep it- looks like it can benefit from a bit of elbow grease and some love!

I agree with Cancork Floor Inc. We refinished the floors in my mom's house that were covered in carpet. They cost about $3.50 a square foot to refinish, plus a little more where there was termite damage (some yahoo added a deck by drilling into the stucco, letting moisture into the floor joists). The places where they patched aren't very noticeable, but if your floor is really a sub-floor, that may be different. Also if the floor needs patching, is the wood species readily available and inexpensive?

In another room in her house, there was just concrete slab under the carpet, so they put underlayment and Ikea white tundra flooring, and it was less expensive than refinishing the old flooring elsewhere, wears great, and looks good, too. If you need this done ASAP, remember that most new flooring will need to sit at least a month in your house to acclimatize to the moisture level of your house or otherwise it will warp. Maybe pick out what you would want as far as new flooring, and get 3 quotes for either option from flooring subs - and ask each sub-contractor if your floor needs a lot of repair and if it is a sub-floor or not.

Also, very important - if you cook a lot or have kids, top coat an engineered wood floor against water damage - if the flooring is pre-finished, the water can simply seep into the cracks between floor boards and cause major buckling. We top coated ours and it cost another $1.50 a square foot, and we are very sloppy with water (have kids and pets and cook like fiends), and have never had a problem.

You can check whether it's a sub-floor a couple of ways:

1 - remove a heating vent - easy to see the layers as you peek down the duct.

2 - look up from the basement - if the kitchen floorboards are the basement ceiling boards, it's a sub-floor!

We lived with subfloor as floor for 9 years, and the cracks between the boards got pretty disgusting, the light shone through from the basement, etc. We just didn't get around to covering them, and I wouldn't choose that route again.

If it's in good condition, and isn't the subfloor, then I'd definitely restore it, or paint it. Either is a WHOLE lot less messy and less expensive than installing a new floor.

Keep them!

A good sanding and it will be like new

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