Beautiful!
Tell me, is it stained or something? Our oak in Sweden is much lighter in color. Yesterday I was at the lumber yard and bought some European oak. Along side there was a pile with American oak. It's hard to see the color of rough wood, but it didn't seem that much darker than the European oak.
//Michael
Thanks for the kind words woodguy7! All in with labour and materials it would have been in the $10,000 pocket. I don't do the budgeting so I couldn't really say the exact amount.