Hi. I’m planning to replace my carpeted foyer with oak strip flooring 2 1/4″ wide. This 2 1/4″ wide flooring needs to match and weave into another room at an entry point as seen in the attached photos. That’s my initial plan anyway. Unless some of you can suggest another way that would be nice and not ugly. I want it to be a smooth transition and not put some kind of cover threshold piece there, at that straight cut where the butt end of the existing flooring meets the flakeboard.

As you can see the previous owners of the house cut/notched the existing flooring. This was done when they built an addition on to the house and then carpeted over this ugly transition. This doorway used to be a side entrance to the house I think.

That stuff under the carpet looks to be something like a flakeboard or MDF type product 3/4″ thick and it is not quite flush to the existing oak flooring. Actually almost flush at one end but not flush at the other. When I dig deeper during the removal I’ll find out why that’s not flush and hopefully the cause won’t be a show stopper.

My plan is to remove that flakeboard/MDF stuff and lay down new/perhaps salvaged (if I can find it) oak strips. This is gonna be tricky.

The last photo 4923 shows a sample piece of Bruce Hardwood flooring which, in the picture at least, looks like a darn near close match. In reality the Bruce stuff has a slight salmon/pinkish tone to it. I know it’s a wide plank sample piece, that’s all they had for samples but it DOES come in 2 1/4″ wide strip version.

I plan on removing all of the carpet you see including the carpet on the steps.

Thanks in advance.