Not Your Grandma's Parquet

Okay, so it's really exactly like your Grandma's parquet.  If your Grandma was swanky and cool!  But I'm guessing when you hear the term 'parquet' you are imagining cheap parquet tiles, squares of faux-wood stapled to concrete floors.  No.

During the Renaissance, wooden floors began to get fancier. Artisans could inlay different types of wood in all kinds of arabesques and tessellations, rivaling marble in impact (and in cost). This type of wood treatment was called marquetry if it involved any curved shapes or naturalistic images. If the inlaid wood pieces were purely geometric and angular, on the other hand, it was known as parquetry, or parquet.

~ Apartment Therapy (read the whole parquet retrospective here)





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Lest you think I was part winner of the recent mega millions windfall, let me clear up what's going on here in my middle class home.  I have a SUPER AWESOME BEAUTIFUL friend who works for a major high-end Palm Beachy flooring company that does amazing work.  As a dear friend, she has offered me the chance to purchase what they refer to as 'shorts'...basically left over pieces of wood from projects they have completed.  At a fraction of the price.

And it is possible that they may have a few hundred square feet of something similar to this available.  Ummmm....yes, please.




With a dark stain, of course.  So let's take a look at some beautiful parquet at work, shall we?


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I recently posted about Tori Spelling's homes, and her kitchen was the prettiest part of an otherwise ho-hum selection of spaces.  That was the beginning of my interest in parquet.





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Just for fun...this is a dollhouse.  Whaa?  Fancy dolls.

This. is. a. dollhouse.  Shut up.

Mishmash.

And even the cheap stuff (I'm guessing?  See I even think the cheap stuff looks cool.) works in the right interior.  I dig.


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This is just gorgeous.


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What say you?  Parquet?  Parquet No?  (See what I did there.)



And Y'ALL.  Don't forget to vote on the grasscloth wallpaper in my guest bedroom!  Be responsible, every vote counts, a change you can believe in, you can't complain if you don't vote.  All that stuff.

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The lucite rod is being fabricated as we speak.  WHOOP.

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