If you do floors first - 1. The HW needs to acclimate to the environment in which it will be installed - ck flooring forum, maybe 5-7 days 2. You would put flooring under all of the above - you can't have it under the cabs and not dw - it will throw everything out of level for one. It would be self defeating to not run it under - that is one of the reasons for running it first - much easier to lay the flooring - There are potentials for leaks in every kitchen w/every type of flooring - there is no bullet proof flooring. Even if it were not under the DW & that leaked it would still leak to the surrounding areas - even tiled floors have flaws related to leaks - grout is not waterproof and water will leech in btwn tiles & start growing some nasty mold in btwn the sub floor & tile (have you seen bathrooms gutted?) - Many gas ranges have feet & sit up off the flooring so no hw would look odd - those that don't have feet typically have a storage drawer - so the heat is far enough away with either to not be an issue w/the flooring. good luck

White Oak and Black Walnut both look great!

I just pulled a few examples from my neighborhood of 1920s/30s houses that mixed stone and brick. The first uses just brick and stone, and no other materials on vertical surfaces. The primary material is brick; the stone is a secondary material used to accent the chimney, foundation, and corners. This second house also uses only two materials along with some wood trim. In this case the primary material is stone (which wraps the entire house) and the secondary material is brick, which appears only in the prominent front gable). These next two houses have quite a few more materials, but still establish a hierarchy and organizational scheme for the arrangement of finishes. The first house is predominantly brick on the entire first floor, and half timbered on the entire second floor. Stone is reserved to punctuate the entrance and as accents on the first floor windows. The second house similarly uses brick as it's primary material on the full first and some of the second floor. Stone is again used to draw attention to the entrance. The key elements to putting stone and brick together is 1. having a house style where mixing the two make sense. Tudor revival is based in medieval architecture and is evoking a sense of age. The houses were meant to feel centuries older than they really were and in some cases were meant to look like they had been added to and modified overtime. To some extent you might also find early colonial houses that were built of stone and latter added to with brick or may have been brick houses with stone foundations. 2. that the stone and brick actually go together. (Note that the houses in 2 and 3 use stone very similar to the OPs). And 3. that the stone and brick are arranged in a way that makes visual sense and that the two don't compete with each other. There has to be a primary and secondary material and a sense of balance to the composition. Materials should wrap full forms so that they don't appear stuck on like wallpaper.

Wood stain for what ? If the shelves then the same as the floor .