I have no idea where you have been looking google bleached oak vinyl plank you will find lots but not maybe at big box stores.

https://www.paramountflooring.com/products/rigidcore/rigidcore/

I hope you have been looking in person and not just online. I am looking at engineered wood right now and I do start with online photos, but in all cases the look is very different once I pick up an actual sample board and bring it to my current house.

The wood will be going in a new house, but I want to narrow it down to a few colors/brands that go well with my furniture, rugs, etc., which will be moving with us.

There is so much gray color in all the stains right now, that even what looks like a medium brown, will have too much gray to go with many of my warmer colored wood furniture. Not easy!

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I’m in your boat Anna. Of the entire build, the floors are the hardest decision. MSI and Shaw have tools that let you ”see” the flooring in your house. I’m sure many other brands also have this tool. At least it’s helpful in narrowing down your vision. Coretec ( I believe is the brand) has the look you posted.

I struggled with this too. My floors are Coretec Norwegian Maple. They’re slightly lighter than they look here.

I'd reconsider the LVP - whoever came up with this is a marketing genius. There is NO such thing as "Luxury" plastic. It's just the latest version of 1950's linoleum. If I were building a new home, I would sacrifice plenty to make sure I had some kind of REAL floors, be they engineered or regular hard wood. It seems from the photo you want French Oak, which are very pretty. Floors are very important in a home, and not something that are that easily changed like countertops, backsplashes, vanities, etc. I'd put my money in the floors, even if I had to put in cheaper countertops for the time being. I don't ever think you'll get the look you're going for with a plastic product.

Design Girl , is on point with that comment. We have clients that installed LVP in new homes 1-2 years ago and now they are ripping it out to put in real wood floors. Real wood floors also add value to a home while plastic floors wont.

look at Flooret, they have some that aren't so busy.

Something to consider, budget permitting, of course, would be using real wood or wood plank flooring for your entry/living/dining room, and then use LVP for all the rest of your home. Certainly would prefer LVP, with or without a room rug, over any kind of carpet. Lowes has (or had) vinyl on large rolls at the back of the store, some with a wood look. You might consider looking there.

Remember that if the rooms are small, you likely want medium flooring colors since darker flooring can make small rooms have an even smaller vibe.

Either of these appeal.

We are considering Coretec Calypso Oak LVT floors. Here's a blog post showing them:

https://halfwaywholeistic.com/2019/04/12/were-getting-new-floors/

I would prefer a tad less yellow to them but we are going with gray cabinets (IKEA Bodbyn gray), white counters and backsplash, and light walls. I'm hoping the floors will help warm the space up a bit to make it less sterile :)

We are considering a few different Coretec floors with similar coloring. I like the light color with not a lot of variation. The ones I listed below are all wide and/or longer plank floors.

I would try:

-Calypso Oak

-Noble Oak

-Hayes Oak

-Medora Oak

-Ravenwood Oak

-Phoenix Oak

What did you settle on Anna?

I have not settled on anything yet. We had our BID meeting on our house last Tuesday and we are just waiting on some adjustments on the price before we look at floors again. I've been searching and it seems like CoreTec has the closest thing I'm looking for, but we aren't completely sold on them yet. But, as far as comparison to the photo above, we haven't been able to find any EXACTLY like the above photo.. so I'll be kind of settling on a different look.

Looks more like a Heart Pine look flooring to me. I know that my brother and wife are putting LPV in their new lake home on advice from their contractor. I believe my sister-in-law said that the floors looked just like their real heart pine floors in the home they will be moving out of this month.

Nhb22 - do you know the name of the flooring that they are using?

No I do not. And they are off on a skiing trip right now. I can ask, but doubt they would know the name without looking at their notes...which I feel sure they did not take with them. Last week I asked my brother what shelving type (wood or wire) they were using in their closets. He did not know. :' :'

Ok sounds good. Thank you! :)

Anna,,, a really good LVP is going to cost the same as a hardwood (either a solid or an engineered). Why the vinyl? it won't last nearly as long as real wood and it won't add any value to the home. (and if you say because you have kids and pets I'll laugh!) Real wood does fine w/those two.

I asked, and as suspected, my SIL does not know the manufacturer. She says the color is called Rustic Birch. She sent me a photo, but I do not think it looks like what you are looking for, or heart pine. Sorry!

This is our basement LVP from 4 Corners which is a Canadian company.

Beth, I have been told from multiple people, flooring salesman and our contractor, that hardwood is much more expensive in installation alone.

I know everywhere is different but I was curious how many homes for sale in my area listed hardwood in their listing. Only 5%. Not worth the extra expense for some of us if it's not something the average homeowner cares about.

Lowes has these colors:

http://www.redbancosdealimentos.org/homes-flooring-design-sources

well of course install would be bit more if you're comparing it to a click and lock type of vinyl. But are you aware they also have floating click/lock wood floors?? doesn't have to be a glue or nail down.

this wouldn't be any more to install and you'd prob find exactly what you want, color-wise.

https://jenwoodhouse.com/how-to-install-engineered-hardwood-flooring/

you could always install it yourselves.

malibu wide plank click/lock french oak- home depot
https://homedepot.sjv.io/kv990

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And I'll bet you dollars to donuts the average homeowner would like this much better than vinyl. (but I guess it would depend where you live. somewhere in podunk NE prob wouldn't care as much as a metropolitan city area. Same issue w/home prices. places like MS where you can buy a home for 80K isn't going to be the same in a city where similar homes go for 600-800K. The latter will expect wood as opposed to vinyl)

So if you live in a city where homes are super inexpensive, then I guess vinyl wouldn't be an issue. I mentioned this type of engineered flooring because you're the one who has said they've looked for over a month and couldn't find what's in that picture.

this one is the finished flooring from HD from JenWoodhouse.