is this wood floor to dark

[HerHonesty]

i have victorian house but its not massive, and was thinking about this wood

www.chauncey.co.uk/projects/flinthamhouse.php

but slightly worried that it will make rooms (living room and hallway) look smaller...

any thoughts..

It might do, slightly, but it depends a lot more on how dark you walls are and how much/ scale of your furniture.

It looks lovely, so if you like it that is more important.

One word of advice though, I have a dark marmoleum floor in my kitchen. /it shows up dirt much more than a pale floor. Be prepared to love your broom/ vacuum cleaner if you go for a dark floor. Counter intuitive but real.

Have you looked at the floor boards you have got?

Cos I have a 1930's house and stained my own floor boards that colour and it looked fab.

It cost me £10 per room for the stain and I used an electric hand sander to sand the boards and used white spirit to pick up anything before staining.

i have a dark floor like this and it's lovely. you have to have light walls tho

we stripped our floorboards back first, but they are in a very bad state with massive gaps and no insulation underneath so living room and hall are very cold

Oh gosh, that's stunning! I really do think that's gorgeous.

Am I right in remembering that you have a lot of antiques, plus lots of objet d'art of an Indian and Oriental nature? I think it might come out looking quite Orientalist / 'Last Days of the Raj' in style, which might or might not be what you want! It would definitely be a strong style statement!

yes yes yes! very oka style if you know what i mean.

thansk grendell! good luck with the shagshelf.

I have found a fantastic Parquet Studio showroom in Wandsworth called Woodrow floors
they have a great display loads of designs ,very helpful and really know their stuff my sister had her floor laid by them as well its beautiful, they are on Old York Rd SW18, well worth a look !!

I can't see teh link?