It just so happens we are building a new home with natural maple cabinets and brazilian cherry floors. We have looked at this combination at a few open houses recently and, in our opinion, it looks great. Our only reservation is moving furniture and rugs around while the cherry "turns" into its beautiful color. We are going to go with a pretty dark counter (not matching the floor) and tie them together with the backsplash.

For the inevitable scratches found on our Brazilian Teak floor, I use Old English Scratch Remover in the dark wood tone. Simply pour a few drops onto the scratch, rub in with a soft cloth and buff the excess away. Completely takes away the "raw wood" look of the scratch. If the scratch is deep, you will always see the dent in the wood, but coloring the wood will help hide it.

ci_lantro, thank you for your reply. Two of my rooms are combined as one big room with a half of a wall high and a half of a wall long so when you enter the room there appears to be a very long hall way (created from putty file cabinets against the wall and my L-Shape desk and other cabinets in the room and desks. So the longer boards may look great here but the other room is small so maybe the shorter boards would look better there. farmhousebound, thank you for letting me know that you chose the slimmer boards for the vintage look and for your high humidity. I get high humidity most summers but this summer there was not much of a problem due to my new air conditioner unit. I usually have to run my dehumidifier all the time in the summer but my new central air conditioner solved that problem. But I was told by the installers that the 3.25" is more stable if the humidity changes and is better if they are not sure how level my cement floor is under this carpet. Thanks again for replying. I will wait for others to reply. I would love a close up of 5" wide boards to see what the Brazilian Cherry grain will look like since most of my samples are 3.25" wide so the grain is fine and cut off but pretty like this also.

As above. Bellawood is from Lumber Liquidators. They typically use Aluminum Oxide in their finishes because it reduces complaints about scratches in the finish. Aluminum Oxide is SUPER TOUGH to cut through. It can take 2-3 TIMES the effort (and materials) for the professional to cut through the finish. If you can find someone who will 'try' (most will say "Thanks but no thanks" because they have lost SOOOO much money to aluminum oxide finishes in the past), then you will be paying an up-charge of $2-$3 per square foot. Brazilian Cherry is Jatoba. It is an exotic hardwood. These exotics are SUPER DENSE. They are very, very, very hard. That means your professional will burn through pads and will take 2-3 times the amount of time to deal with these floors. Again, you will be looking at an upcharge of $2-$3 per square foot. And at the end of the day, after spending AAAAAALL that money, you still have Brazilian Cherry that turns DARK ORANGE/FLAME RED in sunlight/daylight/overhead lighting. The colour (if anything) you put down today will be different in 6 months. A traditional refinish = $5/sf. With all of the above, I would think you are looking at $9/sf which may not include stain (bleaching out Jatoba is like trying to turn jet black hair to a lovely golden blonde...without ruining the hair). Bellawood is cheap. It is MUCH cheaper to pay someone $2/sf to rip this out and then pay them $3/sf to install a different Bellawood product (which you can purchase for as little as $2.99/sf).