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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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
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