We are (hopefully one day) going to remodel the kitchen/dining room of our 1962 house. I want to put in prefinished wood floors (solid). I see that most people on this forum hate on Bellawood/Lumber Liquidators. We did install two exotics from LL in a previous house and were satisfied with the results. Last house we installed a sand and finish floor from a local mill with a Street Shoe finish and also loved it.

For this remodel, we will be so on a budget and will have about 700 sf of floor to install. We are def. going with prefinished for a variety of reasons.

Basically, can anyone recommend a well priced floor or floor source, good quality, that falls in the $4-6/sq ft range?

Here are our stats:

--We are over a crawl space.
--We live in humid central Florida.
--I am open to a stained finish although prefer natural.
--I want a domestic floor.
--Prefer a wider plank (4-5" to cut down on the amount of grooves).

Ideally I would love an American Walnut floor because we prefer a darker color and I read that it is a very stable wood. I am considering Ash, also because of its stability, except DH is not a fan of how it looks.

So...suggestions?

No worries. Thank you, Boxers, for your response. I guess we will just stick with LL since our experience with them has been positive.