Cast Your Vote

I'm obsessing again. I know you're shocked. Ha!

Do you have any idea how many trips I have made to the wood floor showroom?

After many many trips to the showroom, much deliberating, and no less than 20 samples brought home and returned, I have narrowed the field to two choices. Neither choice is anything like the formal dark stained cherry I thought i would end up with.

So, I'm asking you for help. One choice is a very traditional 2 1/4-inch-strip of a warm honey brown tone of beech. The other is a warmer/darker, slightly-more-red stained maple in 6 1/2-inch plantation style planks. I think of wide planks as old and "plantation-y." Am I wrong? are they and their "rusticness" just a momentary trend? Should I stick with the uber-traditional? Considering, of course, this is not my dream house, I have to sell it at some point. Probably in 3-5 years. Want it to be very marketable to a wide range of people. Or, are other people not quite as picky as me, and they will just be happy to find a house with wood floors throughout?

Can't wait to hear what you gals of good taste think!