NE -- for 170 SF (kitchen and back hall)-- we are using Seneca Select Hand Mold tiles. They are hand made glazed quarries with a rustic feeling. They will be laid in a checkerboard with a border. Tiles, about $3200, labor, about $3000 (includes putting down plywood and Ditra). I think my tile guy is on the top end around here but he did such a good job in the bathroom that I would not want to have anyone else.

Western NY area. Imported Italian porcelain tile that looks like slate. Crossville. 144 sq. ft. Installed by DH. Complete price for thinset, backerboard, screws, tile, Laticrete grout, Laticrete latasil which divides the kitchen tile floor from hardwood in the DR and hall was about $1100. No labor costs!!

Upstate NY. Durodesign Cork tile, adhesive, & sealer for $6.99/sqft USD. We DIY installed ~240sqft for $1800.

We're getting a floating cork floor from EcoCork (in Toledo) installed in both our kitchen and mudroom for $5500 - around 400 SF of area. This includes new thresholds and quarter-round molding, moving all appliances, etc. This is in the greater Philadelphia area. It's going over an existing vinyl tile floor that was glued directly to the subfloor!

The estimates for doing this in ceramic tile were nearly double. Plus the cork should be easier on my knees/feet. And.... it's beautiful!

Ceezeecz, do you mean Toledo, OH? We live just north of there.

The kitchen is getting about 200 sq ft 4 3/4" handscraped oak from LL, so about $800 plus tax. We are DIYing so no labor costs.

DH just picked up some slate samples tonight. He'll be doing the install himself, but I don't have any prices on the grout/sealer/subfloor/other extras but I can tell you that the local quarried slate (black) is $4/SF and the other slate options (greyish in color and greenish in color) is $5/SF. We have 210 SF so it'll be anywhere from $850 to $1050 not including tax.

My floor was just finished today! NYC suburb. Installation by a great tile contractor I found on Angie's list - $1,500 labor + $42.00 for thresholds. 142 sq ft of Italian porcelain tile, thin set and grout from my wonderful son-in-law who got it for me at wholesale cost of $257. Helps make up for the big bucks I'm paying my contractor.

220 sq ft of oak (3 1/4 inch planks) $1,500 installed in mid-west city.

I love angie's list.

We just put in wide plank random width walnut throughout our first floor including the kitchen. It was around 7.25/ft unfinished. We added 85 cents a foot for hand-scraped edges (edges only). The install is was done by our "fixed price" contractor's sub (GC doing all of first floor reno) but I got bids of 3-7/dollars a sq foot install from others.

Long Island, NY.

160 Sq. Ft. Montauk Black Brazilian 24" x 24" slate, $800 incuding shipping. Installation was part of full kitchen renovation so no price breakout.

Kitchen 20 x 26 or about 500 sq. feet unfinished oak regular do it all yourself flooring at Menard's last year $1.71/square foot but there were about two or three bundle-worth of bad boards so we bought about another 40-50 square feet later. Add to that the cost of feeding a work crew, renting the nailer, buying nails, etc. and buying the poly coatings. Haven't put in mouldings yet.

Lobby area 10 x 26 was $1 square foot remaindered porcelain floor tile, plus cost of orange crack barrier, whetsaw rental, a few trowels, underlayment, thinset, grout, and silicone goo for perimeter.

550 sq ft of Brazillian Teak(Cumaru)$5.99 per sq. ft., DIY install, so about $3400 total. Installed last week, GORGEOUS!!