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I would find a laminate or LVP planks, which ever you can find that matches the other wood flooring you have as closely as possible. LVP planks can look like real wood but are easier to take care of and can get flooded with water and not ruin them.
You can do it. The two woods should be different but not clash. A nice laminate would work. Then add a threshold that is stained like the wood in the larger room. You want it to look like something you did on purpose rather than as a way to correct something. A laminate tile like pergo brand might also work for example one that looks like slate.
Thanks for the feedback. To answer questions from emm74 and K'ledgeBldr, yes, we would put wood in the bedroom and yes, we are not able to establish an endpoint for the transition from tile to carpet. Without getting too detailed, we have a long closet in the area and the transition would essentially lead into the closet (cutting it in half visually) and we think look really odd. I know it's a decorating issue but basically, it's all or nothing for us in the bedroom/vanity area.
As to emm74's other question, yes, the bedroom door is really the only place the two floors would connect.
A doorway is the easiest place to make a transition, particularly if you run the wood perpendicular to the existing floor, which creates a natural break. You can also put in a threshold piece that is slightly different in color to help merge the two types of flooring if you are trying to come close to matching but it's not exact.
Some examples here, including as you mentioned earlier, using a totally different installation such as a herringbone pattern
I didn't get a chance to take a picture before leaving this morning so I am pasting this diagram I made in Excel. The issue, as we see it, with using tile and carpet is that the tile would run into the closet (e.g., column J4 - J14). We'd have the same issue if we used tile in columns I and J). The transition would cut into the closet.
Now we know it's possible to use two flooring materials. We just can't find a way where it won't look odd given the configuration of the room.
Also, I should note that there is nothing different about the areas in columns G and H (with the lines) from the rest of the bed room area. The area with the toilet and shower is enclosed and has tile. Sorry, my diagram was just a little sloppy.
Hmm. If it was me, I'd probably bring the bathroom flooring farther over between the single closet and the double closet, and then run it diagonally from the corner of the single closet to the corner of the double closet. In other words, I'd use the floor covering to clarify that the bedroom ends and the bathroom starts at a line drawn from about I7 to H4 rather than a line from J4 to J7. Could do a curved line instead of straight if preferred.
Years ago we put Pergo into our then-teenage son's bedroom, which was at the end of a hallway with a hardwood floor. The Pergo was laid with the "grain" going the opposite way. Yes, the difference was visibly apparent, but the Pergo was indestructible and I never regretted it.
I would not be concerned about using a slightly different wood floor than the rest of the house, if they are meeting at only a doorway. I’d get a close shade to the other floor.
I would probably use an engineered wood floor in the bedroom and vanity area. A wet foot or a few drops of water is not going to hurt it. Dont they make a version of wood flooring that is water tight now?
So the I to J transition looks like the best spot to change over to whatever you want in the entire bath area, probably tile. If you can't find the tile you already have then take a picture of the tile you have to the tile store and have a consultant loan you samples that might work. I would not use wood in there at all.
I'd probably bring the bathroom flooring farther over between the single closet and the double closet, and then run it diagonally from the corner of the single closet to the corner of the double closet.
This looks like an easy straightforward solution- there's nothing wrong with the diagonal line. It just establishes a demarcation of "bath" and bedroom.
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