Karndean Parquet Style Flooring

Parquet flooring originated in France around the 16th century, where it was introduced as an easy-care alternative to marble flooring. Today, this beautiful patterned flooring is enjoying a style revival, boosted by the wider interiors trend for vintage finishes and nostalgic decorating. Parquet provides a simply stunning decorative finish, and can be used with borders to create an incredibly dynamic design. It comes in  various patterns; 
one of the most popular is known as Parquet de Versailles, which features wooden planks jointed jigsaw-style within a larger frame - labour intensive but utterly beautiful. A generally less expensive, yet equally eye-catching, option is Herringbone or Chevron style parquet, which is slotted together using tongue and groove edging. Whatever pattern you prefer, there's no doubt parquet is a design winner, and can be used to restore elegance to a period home or create dramatic contrast amid a more contemporary setting. For a naturally hard- wearing floor, check out the parquet designs in Karndean's Art Select Woods collection



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