Best wood like floors

I kept the wood and painted it dark brown as it wore down we covered it with laminate it gave out different shades of brown ! Light medium and dark ! Went with any furniture I put in the room ! I sprayed a dust mop with behold with beeze wax and it kept a nice shine !

I have oak floors all through my house and just had a pipe break in the kitchen I put vinela wood floor down and you don't have to use special thinks to clean them. You can use pinesal but you can not use clorex on it. I just love it and I amgoining to pull rugs up and put some more vinal down. good luck

I love the tile that looks like wood and the vinyl planks that look like wood. We have both and they are so easy to clean and look great.

A friend of mine just installed a ceramic tile in their kitchen that looks like wood planks.. He's in NJ so all I have seen is pictures, but the pics are gorgeous.. That being said we installed 3/4" oak all through our old house. We have built a new house this year that we have just moved in to and chose 3/8" wood flooring with a scraped hickory surface. We love it too. It already looks 'banged up'.. LOL!!

Restoring original hardwoods does add value to a home. I'm a Realtor and a house-flipper, and I just restored 50 year old hardwoods. Here's my post about that process. https://bachelorettepadflip.com/2016/02/21/floored/

But even though they add value, here are my thoughts on real wood floors: https://bachelorettepadflip.com/2016/11/18/so-you-want-wood-floors/

Have you made a decision yet? I did house cleaning for 20 years. Never liked cleaning laminate. We finally removed the carpet in our home and at the suggestion of Kevin,who used to be on Hometalk, we put down vinyl planking! It is awesome,sooo much easier to clean than laminate. We had laminate recently in calif...it always streaked even when using the special cleaner. I couldn't mop it like I could the vinyl planking! laminate scratched,not the planking,and I could use it in bathroom or kitchen and not worry about leaks like with laminate. Laminate is very thin! Vinyl planking shines when you use the special 'wax'?.. forgot what it is called,made for each individual supplier of vinyl planking. Once every 6 months or so.. quieter than laminate..no clicking in shoes,and I would never wear shoes on laminate anyway. But you probably have already made a decision . What did you do? I posted my floor on Hometalk.

Hard to believe anyone wants to replace solid oak flooring with laminate that looks like what is - a cheap copy or engineered hardwood, both needing just as much up keep. Trust me, I've had both and now live in a 50's house with solid oak flooring through out. If your floors are in poor condition, sand them and put some sort of sealer - polyeurathane or such - on it. You'll be gad you did and it'll last another 50 years.