New hardwood over old

We are looking to redo our upstairs flooring. We have removed the carpet that was covering 3/4 t&g hardwood nailed directly to the studs. I am not confident that we could refinish what is there, so I am looking into putting new hardwood directly over the old. I know that you would typically run new hardwood perpendicular to the old. But I also know that you would run hardwood perpendicular to the joists. With the old hardwood running perpendicular to the joists, this would mean that we would run the new parallel to the joists. Will this work?



Thanks,

SarahB

New hardwood over old