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Old 03-21-2007, 05:58 PM
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Default Re: What's a good flooring option?

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Originally Posted by wpage
My friend just did his room with brazilian cherry prefinished wood. Its 3/4 " solid wood and its really nice. Tongue and groove 4" and not too expensive. Same as prefinished oak. But nice and very hard. Ping tested harder than red oak. He loves it and he's a real pain in the ass engineer.
I'm installing 5" hand scraped and finished Burmese Teak. It's not perfectly flat and industrial looking on the finished side, it's wavy.

I've finished the LR and now I have just the den and breakfast area to complete.

It's not as hard as the Cherry, but it's got tons of character.
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