Looks like maple or birch but I do neither would be considered "soft".

Is the wood itself soft and easy to scratch or the finish that's on top of it easy to scratch?

Theresen: Looks like hickory to me too.

Both the finish and wood are easy to scratch. Thanks for your comments everyone.

Birch.

How many coats of finish are on there? And did you pay the UPGRADE for Traffic HD?

I’m used to seeing birch as a more uniform color, not with all this heartwood and variegation, but it probably is birch after all since it has a quieter grain pattern than hickory. Either way, I would suspect the finish more so than the wood itself. Can you lift a floor register to find out if this is solid or engineered? The narrow planks makes me think solid. If solid, you’ll be able to refinish easily.

Oh, and to your question... I think you’d be safe getting birch millwork. Poplar would probably be fine too, but don’t get millwork in the heavily variegated type. Maple is too difficult to stain and costly.

We used two coats of Bona sealer, two coats of bona finish and two coats of HD traffic, per Bona instructions. It is definitely solid wood. The floor is almost 100 years old, build in the 30’s.

Thanks so much for the help u guys. I really appreciate it. I’ll look into birch. I feel like it’s going to be hard to get a wood for the trim to match these floors.

theresen, Why not get millwork of the heavily veror gated type?

Your millwork just needs to have more uniformity to keep from making you look colorblind 😉

Ok got it! Thanks for all the good advise Theresen. We’ve decided to just paint the milwork.