suzatwork: i have to say your floors have very much the same grain and variation in tone as my highly-coveted black walnut. they're stunning! i'm wondering how they take stain, since i'd like darker floors? my plan is to go with the walnut but i'll have to get some samples and check the amendoim out. i'll have to look it up, but also assuming this species would be harder than walnut... hmmm... GREAT! more for me to think about! thanks for posting your gorgeous floors.

Gsciencechick, I love the creamy off-white grout that goes so well with your cabinets. I love the blue tiles and the blue refrigerator! I love the white and blue theme! I forgot what paint color you used on your cabinets, could you refresh my memory since I am finally at the stage that I want to paint my cabinets or get new doors.

Laurie, again I LOVE your tile and when I am ready to do my kitchen, I am going to find a Lowe's that sells the tile. I am going to have to buy two reducers for my floors right now in the kitchen due to having Linoleum there. But I am not ready to remove that flooring until I buy a new dishwasher which looks like it has to wait until next year. How thick is the tile? I wish I could buy it now, since I have a feeling it will need a T-molding with my wood floors and then I will have to remove the reducers and buy T-moldings. I wish now I went with bigger tile in my foyer areas since I am finding out how much I dislike grout even when it is an Epoxy type of grout. Since I lost most of my old email when my hard drive died at 3:15 PM on 06-15-09, will you let me know the exact name of the time, so I can print it and save it to my new hard drive?

original maple floor (1912). Straycat, I use photobucket and there is an "HTML Code" I copy and paste (it's in a box titled Image Link Code.) You'll see the actual code when you paste but then you can see the actual picture when you "Preview Message." My pictures always end up really big so I change the size by inserting a new height and width into the code (in this case I added height="400" width="299.5" just after the part of the code border="0" in the code ) First try finding the HTML Code and click on it (it should copy automatically) and try putting it in your message--you can see if it worked by previewing your message. Then you can try playing around with size. I hope this helps---I don't know much about this, only what I've learned from other patient posters on the site. You can try it without actually posting, you can keep checking to see if you got it right with "Preview Message" without ever needing to "Submit Message." I hope this helps :)