I love my floors. No problems with scratching after three years, but I don't have pets or little boys either.

trudi -- thanks for the compliments. After almost 2 years in our home, we still love our wood floors (yes, they are Brazilian Teak).

As for scratches -- yes we have some. From what most on these boards say, they are inevitable. I think some refer to it as "character" or "patina." We do not have small children, but small scratches here and there appear anyway. I use Old English Scratch Remover for dark wood and it makes them unnoticeable.

I would caution you about very dark wood in that you will see every speck of dust that appears on it. With children and pets, you might be dusting it every single day. While ours is on the darker side, we have many variations in the color of the boards so it does not appear as a solid dark color. That does help hide the dust and dog hair. Here's another pic of our floor where you can see it is quite different than a solid color hardwood.

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I also have the Teak (thanks to Gardenchick) LOL! After 9 months, with 2 kids and a cat with long nails, they aren't scratched much at all. I am taking note of the Old English Scratch remover comment for the future though! ;c)

I LOVE all your floors! I have definitely chosen teak and wondered if you would share if they are hardwood or engineered and what floor company did you use. Thank you -your floors are just beautiful!

Our floors came from a local hardwood floor company and they are real wood, site finished. No stain, just polycoats on top.

Brazilian Teak/Cumaru

I too have the BT. (thanks to gardenchick and Lindy)
I love it! It is the wider, 5" plank, the variation between light and dark is wonderful. We have only been in our home less than a month, it held up wonderfully to all of the construction workers walking all over it like a gym floor. My DH wanted light floors, I wanted dark, this is our compromise!

Lindy and VFish - absolutely beautiful! The color is so rich looking on both of them. And I love that they have a dark and light contrast to them. Thanks so much for the info. I think I would be staring at these floors for a long time.

Our floors are solid hardwood manufactured by Wood Flooring International (which is now out of business due to the bankruptcy of a distributor, Hoboken).

My son just purchased solid hardwood Brazilian Teak from our local Lumber Liquidators and is very pleased with it.

Thank you for all the beautiful pictures. I would have never considered BT if it weren't for stumbling over the pictures..

Ours are handscraped, engineered (since we have a cement slab) maple hardwood. I love the handscraped-it's rustic but elegant. It was one of my "gotta have it, even if it's just a little bit SOMEWHERE!" :) Have to agree, however, you can see every bit of dirt and I do have a few "dings" even though the floor is only in the DR, entry way and hallway to DD's room. But I think that happened during construction.
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superchick, gorgeous floors, just beautiful!! I love your front door as well. Very well done.

Lindy, vfish, I love teak, I went with brazilian walnut instead, but just love teak. gardenchick got me started on wanting brazilian teak, but everything I looked at wasn't as varied in color as hers and that was what I was looking for. Both of your floors are just beautiful.

Chiefneil, I love those dark floors, just love them. They are so rich!

Amy

Really nice seeing! I was afraid that my floors might be too dark, but seeing these I am now sure I'll be okay!

Superchick... couple questions.

1) what/who/brand/color of your floors?

2) We too are getting handscraped engineered flooring as it is going on a slab as well. Now, at the third hour, the installer is "highly" recommending an "option" (a $3600 option) that we put a moisture barrier down. We have done some research, and know that there is a vapor barrier that went down under the slab, so we have decided NOT to do the moisture barrier. Did you?

Tinker-my wood is from Mohawk. I think the color was Autumn something. There were only 3 or 4 choices in color in this particular line. I chose the darkest in the line. I'll try to remember the exact color. Or maybe I can find it on their site for you.

You're going to make me show my ignorance, but I don't believe they put a moisture barrier down. But we live in the SW and I can count on 1/2 a hand how many inches of rain we've gotten, so I don't think many people are concerned about moisture here! $3600 seems mighty high for a thin little barrier. How many sq. feet are we talking?? I bet you'll be fine if you have a barrier under the slab, as long as your concrete has been down for a while. I can't see why you'd need both!

Tinker-I'm such a dork. I think my floors are hickory, not maple. DUH. I think the color is cognac. But, I might be lying about that, too, because the dark auburn maple looks like it too! I'm sorry to be such a ding dong! Here's the link to the website.
http://www.mohawkflooring.com/product-gallery/gallery-hardwood.aspx

Thanks superchick, they are beautiful and mine floors (Anderson) are sitting and ready to be installed. I hope they come out as nice as yours!

We decided NOT to go with the moisture barrier.. I think we will be fine as our slab is high, and I just think it will be an issue! At this point of our build.. anything I spend and extra $3600 on better leave a little 'bling'!