And The Winner Is...

Cherry! We chose the cherry stain over the natural polyurethane simply because it made the floors look a little "warmer". The cherry, out of all the other stains we tried aside from the natural, allows the individual characteristics of the floor to come through without "blending" them too much. Also, as the stain dries (as in the pictures below), it lightens a little. Once Matt from Accel covers them in the polyurethane coating, the color will get deeper again and the individual variations in color/grain, etc., will pop out even more. The floors look absolutely gorgeous, even though it was dark outside when we got ot the house and we couldn't turn the living room light on. Matt left the hallway light on, though, so we could at least get a peek inside the living room and down the hall to see the effect!

The color of the floors blends VERY nicely with the kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanity!

Chad peeking around the corner to get a look at the floors. We obviously can't walk on them, so all we could look at was what we could see from the kitchen.

The floors look even better in person...I really don't think the pictures do them justice. I'm very excited to get the polyurethane on them and see the "shiny" final effect. I'm beginning to get a little jealous that we won't be moving into this house ourselves when it is done...ha! I love our little house...we are just all getting pretty attached to the flip house after all the time we have spent there!

I will get more pictures taken when the next change happens to the floors, which will most likely be finished up on Friday. I know this is something everyone has been excited about, so I will update the blog right after pictures are taken. Thanks everyone!