transition from oak to cherry

17 years ago

our house has oak hardwood everywhere but an addition on the back of the house which is ceramic tile on a slab..

we want to lay down some engineered wood in this room and really like the look of cherry for this space..

you have to go down 1 step from the kitchen which is oak to an oak landing then another step down into the addition..

there is a door in between the rooms so the oak floor stops and the door and there is a step with ceramic tile in the addition.. how do we transition from the oak to the cherry in this area?

do we just do the step in oak? or do we just put the cherry where the ceramic is now? so the doorway is the break between the two? i am thinking cherry for the step myself..

does anyone else have rooms with 2 different wood floors?

here is a picture that might help..

thanks and happy thanksgiving

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al_horses
17 years ago
Different wood colors/species are used in adjoining rooms all the time. Looks great.....what I am most concerned about is the step with ceramic tile. You might want to remove the ceramic tile from the step before installing any wood on that step.
favabeans5
Original Author
17 years ago
yea i am definitely taking out the ceramic tile step.. i plan on doing a slate inlay around the doors... i might turn it into a slate step.. we'll see
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bigdoglover
17 years ago
My vote is cherry step and all cherry floor. You have enough going on with the two different woods, not sure about adding more with slate, just my opinion.

Also I would run the cherry all the same direction, which would from left to right (including on the step) as you look at the room in the picture.

A nice single french door would be beautiful as well (door with full glass.)
favabeans5
Original Author
17 years ago
the slate inlay is more of a practical thing as the two doors are heavy traffic doors leading to the backyard... those doors will get a lot of snow/wet/whatever pulled in from shoes.. i am a bit worried about that being on the wood floor so thought the inlay would just be a landing area for the wet/muddy/etc stuff.. thou i agree that putting it on the step might be a bit too much..

i was going to run the floor up/down vs. left to right.. that way two of the 3 main entrances to the room will view down the strips of wood vs. across the strips if that makes any sense.. it seems to me that it would help make room feel deeper in that direction..

anyone else have thoughts on which way the wood should run?
bigdoglover
17 years ago
Practicality of slate is understandable, and slate is beautiful. What if you ran a band of slate all around the edge so that it tied in with the whole room, rather than just a little slate stoop at the door(s)? Then it could come out a little bit at the door to make it deeper, and could even be on the now ceramic step.