Med oak floor texture looks like a rug

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Greetings:

A year ago I added a med oak floor without difficulty. When I started a new home today, that texture appeared weird. If I re-open the old home project, the floor looks just fine.

In the 3D view: On first glance I see rows of small areas that look like hives (swollen blobs). If I look very carefully I see I see small darker brown smudges. Underneath it all there seems to be a texture that vaguely resembles a hard word floor, but the wooden background is distorted almost as if somebody forgot to wash the floor.

In the flat view design view: it appears to almost be light brown particle board. If I zoom in, then it begins to look quite similar to the 3D view.

I'm using the same installation of Sweet Home 3D ver 5.7 for both homes and I see the same problem on all 3 of my monitors. The only thing I can think that might be different is that I set a default floor height of about 1/2 inch rather than 0 (to allow me to sink an image into the floor to cut off the bottom).

This is our new home design and my wife will not be very happy if her floors look yucky. I thank you very much.

nicebarkingdog