If you have a nail down/staple/cleat or floating wood floor, you are welcome to harvest the hardwood you need from hidden places - like closest in bedrooms, etc. A glue down wood floor probably won't be salvageable for such a job. Removing glue down hardwood is a nightmare to begin with...and then hoping to salvage something later on is almost impossible.

In such a prominent area like a kitchen, I would hate to see a bad patch job. In the worst case scenario (I've seen this done with floating laminate and cork) you can remove an entire room (like a small bedroom/den) to get the planks that you need (plus the 1 carton of "extra" for 25 years worth of repairs) and then install a new floor in that small room. It is more expensive that 10 planks, but it is FAR more desirable to have a public space (others can see it) in the right flooring. The small den can always get carpet for the next decade while you work towards your next floor.

Good luck.

It's glued down. And the 10 planks we needed of course could have come from floor we removed. Boo. My question is, can I cut a 4.78" wide plank floor down to 4.5 wide and it look ok? The flooring guy can match the stain but we can't find the right width

We are short a few here and some under island that won't get concealed by toe kick

Cut them down AND bevel the edges? That's one AWESOME flooring installer! If your installer can do it, then go for it. Remember, the STAIN might be the same...but the SHEEN (gloss level) probably won't be a perfect match.

At this point, you can consider your lesson learned and simply do what is best for your situation = cut down, bevel, stain and finish a different plank. Without buying a whole new floor, this is pretty much what you are down to.

Good luck. You will probably get a 90% match overall.

I don't think he can bevel the edge. I need to speak with him. It'll be different for sure but short of ripping out 2000 sq ft of continuous flooring, not much choice. He did warn me about the sheen and said he can apply sheen to entire floor or at a good stoping point.

He assured me before we began that he'll match it fairly close. How he does that is left to be determined. He's working on it

depending on the size of the bevel, it could be something as simple as hand sanding the edges, your picture isnt close enough to tell the size but even so, on my prefinish jobs im constantly hand beveling edges, so its not out of the question to have this done.