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You have questions, we have answers. Explore the most frequently asked questions about Herringbone and Chevron wood flooring below. Need assistance or want to know more? Contact Carlisle or call 800-595-9663 today to get all your inquiries answered.
A Herringbone floor features a zigzag pattern created by laying out adjoining floorboards of identical length and width at right angles. This creates an exciting geometric pattern with a strong sense of movement and asymmetry. A Chevron floor also uses a zigzag pattern, but the ends of each board are cut at an angle so that two adjoining boards form a V shape. This also creates movement but has a slightly cleaner feel and more orderly appearance than a Herringbone style.
A parquet floor is a surface usually made of wooden planks that are arranged in some form of a pattern.
Parquet wood flooring adds drama, beauty and visual interest to a room, providing a greater sense of elegance, sophistication and luxury. A parquet floor will be a central visual element of an interior design.
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ExploreVersailles flooring is a parquet floor with a pattern featuring large squares of wood within which smaller pieces of floorboards are intricately arranged to create a woven appearance. The pattern is named for the floors in the palace of King Louis XIV of France.
A wooden parquet floor can be refinished just like any other hardwood floor. However, sanding and re-staining a parquet floor may be more difficult than a standard floor. Since floorboards should always be sanded with the direction of the grain, sanding a parquet floor is more time-consuming because adjacent floorboards are installed at different angles.
Yes. Staining the individual floorboards in a parquet floor can help accentuate the pattern and provide more visual appeal.
Like most parquet flooring, Herringbone floors cost more for manufacturing and installation, since there is more time involved in cutting and fitting the floorboards for the parquet pattern.
A Chevron floor pattern installed on a diagnol may make a room appear larger, since floorboards laid out at an angle tend to make a space feel larger.
To plan a layout or pattern for a hardwood floor, it’s best to work with a design consultant. The right consultant can help you select an existing pattern or create your own unique pattern, and create the plans that will assist the manufacturer and installer of your floor.
Because all the floorboards must be cut at precise angles to create a zigzag, a Chevron floor typically costs more to prepare and install than a Herringbone pattern.
The choice of a Chevron or Herringbone pattern for your hardwood floor is strictly a matter of preference. Herringbone patterns have a pleasing asymmetry, while Chevron patterns have a more formal and organized appearance.
A Herringbone floor adds a sense of luxury and beauty to a room. Herringbone floors have been used in stylish homes and manners since the 16th century. The unique arrangement of floorboards in a Herringbone pattern may also help increase the stability of the floor.
The Herringbone pattern is both trendy and timeless. While Herringbone floors have been popular since the 16th century, the Herringbone pattern has been used since the Roman Empire, when it appeared in the interlocking paving system that was used to build roadways. In recent times, Herringbone floors have become quite trendy as homeowners seek ways to create a strong visual statement with their flooring surfaces.
While parquet floors were highly popular in the 19th and 20th centuries, the use of patterned floors fell out of favor in the 1970s. However, these patterned surfaces have never gone out of style and many contemporary homeowners are interested in installing parquet flooring to create a strong visual statement.
The interlocking pattern of a Herringbone floor produces a great sense of energy and movement in a room and lends a feeling of luxury and visual beauty to any space. It can also work to highlight a unique space like an entry way or dining room where it can stand in contrast to the plank flooring used in other spaces. The only real drawback of a Herringbone floor is the higher cost of installation.
Prefinished parquet floors are cut, sanded, stained and sealed before they are delivered to a home for installation. This process enables manufacturers to apply stronger stains and sealants and lets the homeowner avoid the mess, smell and inconvenience of having a floor sanded and stained in the home. Additionally, the installation of a prefinished parquet floor is much faster than a floor finished on site.
Parquet floors can easily be made with engineered flooring. Engineered floorboards are made from a top layer of hardwood that is glued to multiple layers of a backing material, forming a solid core that is more impervious to large changes in moisture and humidity. For this reason, engineered parquet floors work well over concrete slabs, radiant heat or in high moisture areas below or above grade. Engineered parquet flooring should not be used in locations where the relative humidity goes below 30% for any period of time.
A patterned wood floor can be made with virtually any type of wood. Some parquet floors use other materials such as marble to create even more visual and textural interest.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer parquet floors with a range of hardwood species, using standard parquet patterns or working with each customer to create a unique design. Our parquet wood flooring can be preassembled in sections or individual pieces and can be prefinished for greater speed and convenience during installation.
