This house we're moving to needs to have wood floors put down over the entire first floor. A huge project. I'm a fan of site finished wood floors, but am tempted by the ease of the engineered hardwood floors - quick install etc.

I've been looking at different websites and it seems like the hand scraped floors are the majority of their offerings.

Do you think this is a fad? I sortof like the look because I think it will hide my dog's nail scratches, but the engineered wood floor planks are so uniform in length, they look fake to me.

Anyone have the hand scraped engineered wood floors? Do you like them, are they durable against scratching?