10 Questions You Should to Know about Herringbone Flooring

Where classic patterns meet modern trends, Herringbone flooring is renowned for its ability to bring the fabulous look of real wood within reach of every homeowner.

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Thanks to a quick and easy DIY-friendly click system our Herringbone options can be simply installed by all, no matter your previous DIY experience.

What does a Herringbone pattern look like?

A timeless and popular choice. The Herringbone style is a type of parquet flooring and has roots going back centuries. Distinctively recognised by an arrangement of rectangles, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a fish, such as a herring. Truly inspired by nature, the classic Herringbone pattern is sure to make a statement when laid.

Want the gorgeous look of wooden Herringbone flooring with all the benefits of laminate? You're onto a winner with our popular Herringbone laminate. Hard-wearing and easy to look after, with all the character and charm of real wood - perfect!

Practicality meets style, with our newly launched Herringbone Laminate floors you can enjoy the best of both worlds.

Why should I choose Herringbone flooring?

You should certainly consider our range of Herringbone floors due to their incredible versatility, timelessness and range of colourways - sure to suit your personal interior style.

How to install Herringbone flooring

Installing our Herringbone laminate flooring couldn't be easier thanks to its handy click-system technology. The perfect DIY-friendly flooring option, ideal for first time fitters or keen DIYers as the planks simply lock into place with no need for glue and/or adhesive nor many household tools.

Look out for our Herringbone installation guides which can be found on the product pages of your new dream floor for more detailed information.

Does Herringbone floor make a room look bigger

Herringbone floor does make any sized room look bigger, particularly smaller or narrower spaces such as hallways due to its pattern. Thanks to the illusion of movement given, this style of flooring is a fantastic space enhancer you should certainly consider for any room refresh. Opting for a lighter coloured Herringbone can make darker spaces seem brighter and more open, which is always a bonus.

Where can I use Herringbone flooring?

Our Herringbone laminate flooring can be used in nearly all rooms in your home due to its remarkable suitability, from your open plan dining room to your smallest bedroom. The only room you'll have to avoid laying our striking Herringbone laminate in is your bathroom, as unfortunately it is not water-resistant - not ideal for all the splishes and splashes you're bound to make.

Modern laminate floors offer impressive authenticity while remaining highly practical and incredibly easy to care for, making upkeep a breeze. Looking after your floor is easy with all of our ready to purchase aftercare products.

Is Herringbone flooring expensive?

All our Herringbone flooring options are very much affordable, with plenty of budget-friendly floors to choose from.

Just because something is trending, doesn’t also mean that it can’t be timeless as well. But how do you know? 

After our herringbone wood floor was installed in our entry, I got to thinking that a really good test of whether you’re installing something timeless is to ask this question:

Would anyone walk into my house and immediately think, “Wow, these floors are so dated they need to come out immediately!!”

No, they wouldn’t.

But we would certainly say that about the basic taupe tile that everyone installed inside the grey trend – because it screams, “I was installed in the grey trend.” 

Yes, there are many ways to describe timeless, but I liked this one I found in the Collins Dictionary:

If you describe something as timeless, you mean that it is so good or beautiful that it cannot be affected by changes in society or fashion. 

Timeless really is about standing the test of time. Here’s another post where I defined it further. 

Herringbone Floors: Timeless or Trendy?

Herringbone floors fill the homes, hallways and streets of Europe and have for centuries. Is Herringbone trending right now? It definitely is. But it’s also a timeless pattern. It’s important to remember, just because something is trending, doesn’t mean it can’t be timeless. Timeless finishes have their moment too.

Taupe was THE MOST popular ‘grey‘ of this era because it’s basically a combination of grey and beige. This makes it look cooler than all the beiges. And while everyone wanted grey they often preferred the warmer side of the greys.

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Therefore, since my house was a custom build 12 years go, which would have been right in the middle of the grey trend, it’s no wonder I inherited a house that was filled with taupe from top to bottom.

This was the taupe 12″ x 24″ tile that was in the entry when we purchased the home. We interviewed a few hardwood flooring experts and found a company who located the existing engineered white oak flooring that we already had (and refinished it). It was ordered way back in November and just installed two weeks ago.

This was my inspiration photo:

In order to choose the pattern, we needed to decide which wall we would look at most – in other words, which area would be the focal point. This determines which direction the centre point would go:

We went with option 2 because when you walk into the entry you immediately see the staircase and the wall at the end of the hallway.

The other interesting tip is that the border going all the way around was ordered slightly wider than the existing wood floor boards I had (see the stained wood on the left in the photo below). The reason is that when the herringbone was installed this border board could be cut to size.

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This eliminates small cuts when adding the herringbone boards – to accomodate for the full pattern. . . okay I’m not the expert and I’m likely describing this wrong. If you know, you know.

Here it is installed before it was stained to match the rest of my medium brown floors:

And here’s the after, so gorgeous!

Let’s see the before again, shall we:

And here’s the after:

You can watch the transformation here too:

Tired of hearing about grey wood floors?

Speaking of instagram, when I reposted my ‘Grey floors should never have been invented’ reel on Instagram a couple weeks ago and it quickly amassed over a million views again.