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The easy answer is get unfinisihed same wood and have it finished to match it won't be perfect but IMO better than any other choice .That means teak I guess a bit confused as to the name of the flooring .

I would find something as close as possible and have it installed in a herringbone pattern. Run a contrasting border, laid straight, around the entire area in a lighter stain. I think it will look more intentional that way. And you shouldn't notice a color difference with the herringbone pattern.

I had the same dilemma recently, but doing something like this wasn't possible. Had to refloor the entire house. Was very costly.

Get similar wood. Get Good contractor who can match the staining. Then just place some transitions ie a border of the wood in a different direction at the edges of the old new wood. it’s not that hard to get staining very close. Don’t need herringbone. Just a transition piece. So the differences in wood are minimized. Will look amazing

PLease no herringbone layout .

Are you planning to do an area rug in this room? And were you able to get some amount of square footage of this matching wood? If yes to both of those questions then see if you can do a wide border of the matching wood and then have plywood installed to match the level of the wood border and have the rug cover it. The only way this works is if you can definitely get enough of this wood to work with a large rug size. You could have a custom rug bound to your sizing needs if an off the shelf size doesn’t work.

@Patricia Colwell Consulting @mcgeee - Thank you both for your suggestion! this is an option we considered in the beginning as I agree that the stain shouldn't be too difficult to match; we had some concerns that we wouldn't be able to find the same type of "hand-scraped" wood. We do have a sample board that we can take into a flooring store for comparison so might try that! Thank you again.

Thank you, @Jeane Gallo! I absolutely agree that whatever direction we go, I want it to look intention- thank you for saying that, I couldn't quite figure out how to explain my reservations in attempting to find a wood that is a close match - I was worried it would look like we're trying too hard. My husband wasn't a huge fan of the herringbone pattern- although there are some fun designs out there!

@thinkdesignlive - Yes, I had planned to put a large area rug down and we did actually locate a smaller amount of the flooring, I don't remember how much exactly but will definitely have to go back and reconsider that! I do worry that it might be a deterrent when we sell in a year or two, but I suppose you could say the same for the choosing the wrong flooring altogether. Thank you for your clever suggestion!

Have a commercial level bound carpet installed like a hotel banquet room. There are borders, and center patterns, and you create your own custom rug.

I’m no expert but agreeing with the different- color wood “ border” around the closest match possible for the main central flooring, because I saw some pictorial, maybe even on Houzz, about flooring transitions which featured that as one, and it looked fabulous. Some more intricate transitions were patterned mixtures but still just a border so not requiring a whole large area to be intricate wood work.

So it is making an effort to fool- the -eye but still being ok with, ya know my flooring isn’t an exact match ; get over it.