Ideas: Solid wood floors. Painting or Laminate over

Hi all.

I'm doing a bit of work for a pal moving into a new apartment they just bought.

They have solid pine wood floor down in living room. It's new enough but is a bit scuffed and faded/discoloured in parts. It would have been expensive to put in. It's quality flooring.

The new owner wants white flooring.

Thinking about options. I'm presuming if you paint solid wood floors you've basically written them off? Or at least you'd have to sand them down the line, and I'm not sure painting them is a sensible thing to do?

Sanding and revarnishing? Can be a tricky enough job and ideally should be done by someone well used to it? And obviously not white. (But if it was me, that's what I'd do)

The preferred option by my pal is to put down white laminate flooring over the top of existing hard wood floor.

In my opinion the existing floor is grand and could be sanded. But colour needs changing.

Any opinions on best methods or alternative options?

Thanks

tabby aspreme

Sand, lime wash, then varnish

Nice one Tabby. That's a new one on me. Cheers.

nkathleen19

Varathane, and possibly others, makes a white stain that turns out well and will give you white, natural looking floors without painting (which is rarely a good idea). After sanding make sure to use a wood conditioner then seal with a high quality water-based polyurethane. Good luck!