i love solid wood finish as well. My house is using rose wood flooring. However for our climate its hard to use wood besides belian that can withstand our weather outdoors. if not i would be using alot more pine / maple which is really nice. Our hard wood here is mainly very dark brown and those that can used outdoors like belian will turn black.
But im planning to do some interior finishes using maple /pine but its hard to find them here unless imported. In australia their whole roof framing is using oak wood.

This post has been edited by metaloid: Oct 11 2018, 11:42 AM

Im not too sure but i bought lots of belian for my home more than 10 years ago and that time was still affordable. So i now use it as my outdoor floor decking after renovation so it has to be permanent.