Adding wood flooring to hall

This week was a bit of a challenge. Half of the hallway we created has 100 year old heart pine which has a wonderful variety of  colors. We wanted to complete the hallway with matching wood but could not find the same varieties of color with available pine. We did find the right size clear high grade pine with no knots and decided to try and use a variety of stains to create the old heart pine  look. A solid stain would have looked like a 4' wide and 9' long patch.


                            This how the hall looked after the original floors were refinished. Notice the variety of colors in the 3"  wood strips.

Here I am  applying the first layer of conditioner and stain after adding 9' of additional tongue and groove pine to finish the hallway.

Using a pallet to hold my oil paint pigments, I mixed mineral spirits with  burnt sienna, yellow ochre, and raw umber to create a variety of stains so that each piece of wood would be a little different like the original. This is the completed floor. It also  looks like it is  time for a new pair of shorts :0)

Three coats of polyurethane later and the old and the new come together