Honey Oak Floors: Dated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is like the blind leading the blind. Honey or Natural oak floors liok dated and awful. I have them and desperately wish i did not. At least I'm not lying to myself. Haha.

Natural oak floors are what have been used in housing for almost a century. Are they trendy? No. Are they classic? Yes.

shit shacks were also popular for centuries, it doesn't make it right

....not a good comeback

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is like the blind leading the blind. Honey or Natural oak floors liok dated and awful. I have them and desperately wish i did not. At least I'm not lying to myself. Haha.

Natural oak floors are what have been used in housing for almost a century. Are they trendy? No. Are they classic? Yes.

shit shacks were also popular for centuries, it doesn't make it right

Bless your heart.

Still waiting for a pic of these 1980s wood floors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is like the blind leading the blind. Honey or Natural oak floors liok dated and awful. I have them and desperately wish i did not. At least I'm not lying to myself. Haha.

Natural oak floors are what have been used in housing for almost a century. Are they trendy? No. Are they classic? Yes.

shit shacks were also popular for centuries, it doesn't make it right

Bless your heart.

Still waiting for a pic of these 1980s wood floors.

Or a pic of something that does look 2010s?

[Anonymous]

I have medium to dark floors, those are timeless. Sorry but none was putting high quality antiques on honey oak floors ever. They were in style and are now out. Frankly they look cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The honey oak look is technically very 1990s and so, without proper planning to minimize them, can really date a house.

We bought a house a few years back with honey oak yellow/orange floors and despised them, so they were our top three must-fixes before we moved in. But we painted the whole house first, and the change was amazing. If you'd asked a third party, they would have thought the house when we bought it had "white" walls and that we repainted with "white". But the original "white" walls were very creamy, and we changed to a cool white. This made a huge difference to the floors. We still didn't love them, so we stripped and did a clear water based poly on top, and they looked pretty "neutral" when all was done. (This is because clear coats, esp old oil based ones, had a light yellow tint to them that only gets worse over time.) They will never been trendy (at least not until the next trend rolls along), and no one will ever remark at how beautiful the floors are, but they are no longer an eyesore.

So if you keep the yellow floors and want to avoid having a house that feels 20 years old, you need to focus on decorating with cool colors. That means that brown, yellow, red, orange cannot be major decorating pieces in your house. If you have a traditional medium stained brown wood dining table, your dining room is going to feel like it's out of 1998 against your floors. Sorry!

Honey oak floors is NOT. 1990s look.

White, light cream, teal green or dusty rose carpet is a 1990s look.

No one had wood floors in the 1990s

How old are you? I had several houses in the 80's that all had wood floors. Went on the Cleveland Park house tour multiple times in the 80's and 90's and every house in the tour had wooden floors. Some light, some dark. In fact, it was on one of those tours that I realized that, although I liked dark wood floors in theory, they really do make a house very dark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The honey oak look is technically very 1990s and so, without proper planning to minimize them, can really date a house.

We bought a house a few years back with honey oak yellow/orange floors and despised them, so they were our top three must-fixes before we moved in. But we painted the whole house first, and the change was amazing. If you'd asked a third party, they would have thought the house when we bought it had "white" walls and that we repainted with "white". But the original "white" walls were very creamy, and we changed to a cool white. This made a huge difference to the floors. We still didn't love them, so we stripped and did a clear water based poly on top, and they looked pretty "neutral" when all was done. (This is because clear coats, esp old oil based ones, had a light yellow tint to them that only gets worse over time.) They will never been trendy (at least not until the next trend rolls along), and no one will ever remark at how beautiful the floors are, but they are no longer an eyesore.

So if you keep the yellow floors and want to avoid having a house that feels 20 years old, you need to focus on decorating with cool colors. That means that brown, yellow, red, orange cannot be major decorating pieces in your house. If you have a traditional medium stained brown wood dining table, your dining room is going to feel like it's out of 1998 against your floors. Sorry!

Honey oak floors is NOT. 1990s look.

White, light cream, teal green or dusty rose carpet is a 1990s look.

No one had wood floors in the 1990s

How old are you? I had several houses in the 80's that all had wood floors. Went on the Cleveland Park house tour multiple times in the 80's and 90's and every house in the tour had wooden floors. Some light, some dark. In fact, it was on one of those tours that I realized that, although I liked dark wood floors in theory, they really do make a house very dark.

Meant to say I had several houses in the 80's *and 90's*

[Anonymous]

OP,

About 12 years ago we rented a home with honey oak floors and I loved them. They were beautiful, classic and always looked clean and shiny, even when I didn't mop them as often as I should have (had small children at the time). After we moved from that home, we bought a house with trendy espresso brown hardwood floors, and they were okay, but it made the house look smaller, didn't match with all of our furniture and a pain to keep clean.

We've since sold that house and moved into our new home and opted for honey oak floors again, just because we had such a positive experience with them previously, though they are a tad darker this time around, with more of a reddish hue. They are absolutely gorgeous and I love them as much now as I did in the first house we lived in. No, they aren't super trendy and popular like the white washed and espresso flooring that you see in homes now, but to me, it really makes our new build home look unique but classic at the same time. At this point, I wouldn't have any other flooring in my home. New or old, it is still consistently used for a reason.

[Anonymous]

You should have what you want. It's your house. I think the issue here is it just looks very cheap to do a honey oak floor. It is not an upgrade of any kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is like the blind leading the blind. Honey or Natural oak floors liok dated and awful. I have them and desperately wish i did not. At least I'm not lying to myself. Haha.

Natural oak floors are what have been used in housing for almost a century. Are they trendy? No. Are they classic? Yes.

shit shacks were also popular for centuries, it doesn't make it right

Bless your heart.

Still waiting for a pic of these 1980s wood floors.

Or a pic of something that does look 2010s?

http://www.houzz.com/photos/5314618/Casa-Corbino-AIA-Austin-Homes-Tour-2013-contemporary-kitchen-austin

or

https://www.google.com/search?q=honey+oak+floors&rlz=1C1QJDB_enUS633US633&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=949&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE4bDoxaXNAhVHYiYKHVELA_IQsAQISQ&dpr=1#imgdii=BVuIRUFRN-b6qM%3A%3BBVuIRUFRN-b6qM%3A%3BRWS0502zb6fSlM%3A&imgrc=BVuIRUFRN-b6qM%3A

[Anonymous]

I really like the kitchen in the first link

[Anonymous]

OP here- Yes those examples are what my floor looks like. I found a stone I like for the fireplace and I like the ideas of blues in the home with the floors.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

This is the most bizarro thread of all time. Dark flooring is already out, white-washed will look dated soon enough. Honey Oak is classic an has been used for over a hundred years.

[Anonymous]

The blue will allow me to have gold accents which I love incorporating.

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen any wood floors that I think are hideous or can't be worked with, unless they are badly stained or poorly maintained. Wood floors in general, no matter the stain or color elevate all homes imo.