Day: April 28, 2011

28Apr

Chevron floors

Chevron floor in home decor living room with tall bookshelves

Chevron floors have been a main part of European Interior Design for centuries.  Chevron Parquet floor with its zigzag pattern brings elegance and interior architecture into any home decor.  Now a days you can find chevron wood flooring in porcelain tiles for bathrooms or kitchens as well.  With this type of parquet flooring you can also create an effect of stripes on your floor by using two different colors creating a very fresh and young atmosphere in bathrooms or foyer as in the the picture below.  Chevron floors can look great in all kinds of home decor from classic interiors to modern.

Chevron floor in home decor black and white foyer
Chevron floors in home decor dining room

In a more clean dining room with chair rails on the walls, Hans J. Wegner chairs and an ornate fireplace the herringbone floor blends seamlessly.

Chevron floors in home decor entryway

A bright blue sideboard and simple lanterns is all this entryway needs when it has beautiful honed finish chevron floor.

Chevron floors in home decor kitchen

Kitchen with chevron patter floor.

Chevron floor in home decor bathroom
 In this bathroom which graciously have a fireplace in it, the black chevron floor adds to the regal and classic look to it.
rustic Chevron floor in home decor
In this room the Interior Designer used probably reclaimed wood creating a more rustic home decor.

images from Cote Maison and my files.

28Apr

Mix and Match dining chairs

I haven’t found the perfect chairs for my dining room yet so I’m contemplating the idea of just going with the flow and buy the chairs I love even if they come in pairs or single. It’s a no-brainer and affordable way to do it and it’s also a younger approach so the little ones will relate very well to the idea. More traditional people are afraid of going with this more casual look but a safer and more balanced way of doing it is by using chairs of the same color or using the same fabric for upholstery. In the top image the fact that the chairs share the same color, make this room more elegant.


In this case all chairs are the same but the contrast of the wood, leather and metal, somehow give the same feeling as a mix and match dinging room.

This image above reminds me of Sarah Jessica Parker’s dining room but in a more modern way. All chairs are of the same wood.

And this last image is simply fun and girly.