Parquet with Border Inlay Motif

Another sample of an old and very well maintained parquet floor installation - most probably in the New York area - displaying a chess layout in the central area surrounded by a hardwood floor border inlay. The same installation technique: nailed down down piece-by-piece.

A Hardwood Floor Border - old and restored.

Another example of a nailed fdown old parquet flooring with a hardwood border (a nail down installation means every piece of the flooring is kept down by a nail and not by adhesive like today). The hardwood border - a well know pattern - is installed near to the wall together with a geometric parquet flooring pattern. This is a restoration - left side the initial state, right hand the restored. Another 100 years of life ahead. All solid, no engineered.

Late 1800's parquet border inlay installed with strip hardwood flooring

A parquet border inlay installed with strip (apparently Oak hardwood flooring) in a late 1800's house. The beauty of the patina visible. Back in the age when the parquet flooring was in fashion, when the good craftsmanship and taste in wood flooring was, probably, more constant than today. A source of inspiration.

Parquet Border Close View - Old Nail Pinned Work, Boston

Boston. Close view of a hardwood border installation. Center filled with small field patterns (parquet panels).
All nail pinned on every element.

Traditional Living Room design by Boston Interior Designer Linda Merrill

Hallway Installed Parquet Border

Parquet border installed in a hallway and partially in the kitchen.

Contemporary Kitchen design by New York General Contractor Fox Force Five Construction

Insole Court in South Wales and the fine parquetry with inlay border. Craftsmanship of the 19th century.

The Insole Court is a Llandlaff, South Wales located mansion who belonged to James Harvey Insole, a colliery proprietor. It's a mansion whose building started at the middle of 19th century and went through a series of rebuilding and redecoration phases afterwards.

What interests us is the parquetry flooring installed in the house in the 19th century which, in the dining room, features a splendid parquet border.

I have found two detail images on Mark's photo stream at Flickr:

Wide parquet border inlay - detail, Insole Court.

  

Parquet flooring with border, Insole Court - detail