I installed this floor in our living room and dining room recently. It is prefinished 3/4" x 3 1/4" maple, stained bronze. Wood comes from the province of Quebec in Canada, where they are noted for their quality maple trees. I had never done this before, but I think it came out ok for a newbie.
My wife loves it so much, that starting this morning, I will be installing the same hardwood in our 3 bedrooms and hallway....wish me luck. This is going to be a bit tougher, because of all the flowing transitions through doorways and cloths closets. I'll have to figure out how to make a spline to change direction into a bedroom on the opposite side of the hallway. Shouldn't be too hard (I hope). Anyway, here's what my living room and dining room look like.

Looks nice.

Thanks, we're happy with the results so far. Right now we are in the middle of installing the same hardwood in 3 bedrooms and a hallway. We have 2 bedrooms and the hallway completed, leaving just one bedroom left to do. There is a continuous flow of hardwood through all the thresholds which took a bid of time and some pretty fancy cutting, but so far, I'm doing ok. Can't wait to have it all finished, and all the furniture put back in place.

You have done very well to have laid that all you self. I did some parquet flooring myself and it took me two weeks to do 20m2!

Looking back at the pictures I could do with resanding it

People with allergies or respiratory conditions often avoid carpets and pads because they are so difficult to clean properly; harboring dusts and molds, and can off-gas VOCs . Against this, domestically-produced hardwood looks pretty good. My wife and I moved in here in a hurry because the previous owner stalled and dawdled long past closing when he was supposed to get out. As a result, we had a local flooring company come in, rip up carpet and pads, and install Mannington "click-type" flooring that looks like white oak. It's OK, and we needed to have the job done quickly. Eventually, we'll probably spring for hardwood flooring - either real white oak or rock-maple. It won't be real cheap per sq ft, but luckily this is a small house.