I would like to get feedback on the Supercore Basics line. I am looking at Solitude for around 1,000 sf. I have an old wood subfloor that I am going to need to do a lot of leveling on. Where do you draw the line for telling someone that a 4.5mm floor is not for them? I know I only get a 12mil wear layer, but the fact that it is still Aluminum Oxide and has a stone composite core makes me feel it will be ok. Is there any difference in the locking system? The lock does not seem as hefty on the samples for the basics line. I get concerned that with an old pier and beam supported floor that has settled, even if I level the floor, will the less hardy locking system fail if I get slight movement with any further settling?

If you must have gray, go as light as possible. The lack of natural light in your home will darken the floor by several steps. The lighter floor will turn darker than the darker floor simply because you don't have a lot of light. And do yourself a favour and PRIME your walls with white primer. Do that before you install the flooring. This way you will have a true sense of the colour of EVERYTHING. Right now you are seeing greige in the flooring because you have a yellow based wall colour. Before you pick a paint colour, you need to rid yourself of the existing colour. Once the existing colour is gone and the floors have been installed, you can then make paint swatches (on artists' board using tester sized tins of paint). You then MOVE the artists boards (with the paint colour on them) around your home. You leave them in each room to view the 5 times of day (early morning, mid-morning, afternoon, evening, night). You will quickly find out which sample board 'fails' because of the colours it will turn in different lighting situations. And if you are thinking of changing your lighting, please do it BEFORE you install the wood and before you paint the walls.

@jkent9024 very cool shot. Our builder and my dh took shots of every wall in the framing phase to know where lines are etc. . They've just about finished with our exterior painting. Still have another coat to do on the trim and they are currently sanding and restaining our screened porch ceiling because somehow it didn't end up the color we had requested. @chispa Our pool contractor is on the ball and on schedule, and our pool has been filled. for almost a week. We should have been moving in in 30 days. Unfortunately the house now has 3 months to go. The first two weeks our pool contractor does a start up program but after that, we'll be taking care of a pool we can't use. There's always somebody working at the house each day, but nothing exciting happening. Some trim on the main level and as mentioned the exterior painting/staining finishing up. Painting inside should commence soon. Currenlty I'm focusing on our current home, getting it ready to list for sale on the 15th of this month. So much to do, so I haven't been online as much, but everybody's homes are looking great.

Spoke to Flooret and person confirmed that they have a relationship/contract with Valinge - she could not confirm that the colors are exactly identical. I got sample of Valinge oak nature honey and Flooret Anza and they are very slightly different but might be due to a different batch. Flooret sizing is a bit different (a little narrower and shorter planks I think). Identical technology I assume. Haywoods Flooring here in NYC has "Ultra" line which is also Valinge. Compared to another similar product (wood surface over "waterproof" substrate) for which I got samples, the Valinge locking system seems superior - easy to do and stable. I am infatuated with Valinge and plan to use it, as soon as I can get a frigging installer.