Were you ever obliged to move into an old dilapidated house and simply "make the best of things"? If you ever were, you have not yet forgotten the floors. If you were renting the house, your landlord probably thought the floors "good enough", and if the house were your own, you may not have decided that the old building was hardly worth the expense of new oak floors with oak at $150 per M. Your problem then, was to treat the old floors in such a way as to make them attractive, and above all, easily cleaned.