Each to their own , but I'd put a runner in the hallway , and carpet the other rooms . Some wooden floors are nice , but I'm not a fan of every room having them .

If you stained it dark the yellow would vanish and the knots be minimised. But if you have the budget Oak in the front of the house would be amazing.

Thanks the hall and study will be boards with other 3 carpet. Any links for amazing baltics appreciated.

If you keep them and get rid of the yellow, do let us see After photos. We have a similar issue (P.S. are you the same AS that I may have worked with in Taipei in the early 90s?)

We stained our Baltic pine floorboards. Regret not doing them darker.

Thanks Kate good insight, do you have a pic?

Melt will do, I have worked in Taiwan but not in the 90's.

Before we painted everything white. Sorry I thought i had attached these photos in my original post!

Thanks how dark would you go, Japan Black?

Sorry late 90 / early 2000s. Alzheimer’s must be setting in! Glad to see you are still around! Go for dark boards they look awesome! Melita

I think Japan black would be too dark. We actually had some boards stained Japan black under our carpet that we had to sand back. From memory there was a chocolate colour that I think would look good (dark brown instead of red)

You can get brown Japan which is a great dark colour and alternative to the black.

So I've found 3 options for the wife to review, thoughts:

1-2 Espresso

3 Heritage

4 Limewash

Lime wash looks great.

Limewaah fantastic

Limewash

Hi, keen to know what you ended up choosing?