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I had the same problem as you (and an aversion to wallpaper), covering it up with 1200 lining paper did the trick. Also fairly quick to do - took an afternoon to do a bedroom, so much faster and cleaner than messing about with filler and sanding. We filled any big holes etc. first though.

We sanded and stained our victorian pine floor and then lacquered it using acrylic lacquer (apparently this is commonly used for parquet floors). It looked great until we did some decorating and generated a lot of fine dust (from rubbing down plaster walls etc). This settled into the grain of...