Help! I am in the process of potential last minute change and am pulling my hair out. I had originally picked ebonized ipe to into the floors of our new home - found that the wood is floating in the ocean somewhere waiting to pass customs and may be a bit. In the mean time our 2 boys were playing with samples and I noticed that it was pretty easy to produce white scratches. Now I'm having second thoughts ...wondering if our beautiful hardwood floors will look awful in about a week with scratches everywhere? I'm thinking of switching to maybe brazilian mahoghany , something alitlte lighter that maybe won't show so much - however really love the look of ebonized ipe.

When we had our Brazilian cherry floors refinished, we experimented a bit with stains. None of the stains were satisfactory. Brazilian cherry has a fairly open grain, which means that it stains unevenly. To me, the stained floor looked blotchy and damaged. We decided to finish our Brazilian cherry floor without stain, and we've been very happy with it. Sorry about the delay.

It got no track record, the site shows they are into way too many things to be good at any of them, your suppliers recomend is a little flakey. I woudent be the bata test but if you go for it let us know. John

Chinchette, thank you for your input. I sure hope my floors become more red. I really was in love with the Mirage samples but their price was more than the BR-111 so I went with the company that I though was good but more in my budget. I am trying to choose a painter and then I will install the floors and take pictures.