[sneri13]

We just finished completly gutting the house we brought 2 years ago I had hardwood floors installed in my entire house, however I had carpetinstalled over in the bedrooms, my office and family room. I also had wood installed in the kitchen. This is my fouth kitchen redo, I have had lino, ceramic tile (hated cleaning the grout), and stone (hated cleaning the grout and the stone stained, chipped it was travertine). The wood is the best choice I have made. Our pool is off the back of the kitchen no matter how many rugs are down and the order to dry off before coming in the house I still have the wet foot prints. They wipe them up and I have had no problems. My floor guy comes once a year and maintains my finish. He uses a water base sealer which can be walked on in 2 hours, furniture replaced in less than 8. The sealer does not smell the way oil base does and I think it has a better finish. I use murphy's wood floor cleaner and it works wonderful. The dogs do slide when running at full speed, but I think the slide is intentional becuase they seems to enjoy doing it way to much and it doesn't happen all the time. I have attached some pics of the kitchen floor. He used 3/4" oak flooring in 3 4 and 5" widths run on the diagonal.