Have you ever considered a checkerboard parquet? The checkerboard pattern is often a favorite that gives a room a youthful update. The flooring becomes playful and sophisticated. The advantage of the checkerboard pattern is that it’s almost timeless and can dress up or transform a well-worn parquet.
Prepare Your Parquet by Removing Protective Layers
Because parquet has often been treated with varnish, oil, and wax to protect it from external damage, you need to prepare it to receive other agents by refreshing it, which means removing these protective layers. This way, you can give it a second life, particularly by eliminating unsightly scratches and color variations. You can first fill any cracks and holes with wood filler to restore a smooth and uniform appearance to your floor.
Whitewash a Parquet to Create Checkerboards
If you don’t want to repaint your entire parquet, you can play with color shades by whitewashing it, thus easily creating a checkerboard. The color nuance helps brighten the room, brings life to a floor covering, and generally adds a lot of character to an interior if the checkerboards are well executed.
You can whitewash a parquet in three different ways, either yourself if you’re handy enough or leave the task to parquet professionals for a perfect finish. To do this, you can use either white wood stain, white wax oil, or bleach. With whitewashed wood, you bring a Scandinavian style to a decoration, brighten the room, and add a good dose of modernity. A light-colored parquet allows you to create your own atmosphere in any case, being neutral enough to be personalized as desired.
Mix Materials to Create Original Checkerboards
If you’re among those always looking for more originality in your interior decoration, one of the latest decorating trends for parquet is to mix it with another material. Indeed, mixing materials is a trend we see everywhere on clothing, of course, but now also on floor coverings. Don’t hesitate to have a new parquet laid with tiles, cement tiles, or even marble by flooring professionals. You can also renovate your flooring without changing it entirely and have inlays of other materials made within your existing parquet, such as marble or even denim! Let your imagination run wild, be creative, original, and combine your parquet with your favorite materials, in line with the decorating style you desire.
Rely on Colors to Brighten and Enlarge the Room
In a child’s bedroom, kitchen, or bathroom, multicolored checkerboards are a solution to liven up a room, make it playful and warm, especially if your room is cramped or poorly lit. Dress your walls in dense-toned colors and capture as much available light as possible by laying a parquet with multicolored checkerboards. If you choose yellow and khaki green, you’ll notice that the colors capture the sun’s rays and light to illuminate the floors and the entire room. This decorating trend turns a room into a true cocoon. The checkerboard pattern, which is anything but neutral, has the advantage of pushing the walls out, giving the illusion that the room is larger!
