Parquet flooring in hallway

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I am considering putting a Karndean parquet flooring in my hallway, changing to a 'wooden' flooring in the same wood effect and colour, but straight lay planks into the kitchen (which is in a separate room with a doorway), as we like the wood but think parquet throughout would be overkill.

What do you think of the parquet effect flooring?
Our house is a 20 year old detached, our style is clean and contemporary, mainly neutral colours.

Here is the parquet floor

I think this is the straight lay

Personally I don't like parquet - I think the planks look nice and would join the house much better to have continuous flooring

Thanks Jazz I appreciate your honest opinion, I don't much trust my judgement on interior design matters!

I love the parquet! I think it would look fabulous in the hallway, and your idea of the planks in the kitchen in the same colour and wood sounds lovely.

Go for it.

I actually quite like parquet flooring. My mil has it in her house, its in the hallway and the living room and like really nice, she recently had it resanded and sealed.it certainly seems hard wearing and looks very nice, they have had theirs forty years and other than polishing it very occasionally with wax? This so the first time they have done anything to it and that was only because of a water leak that lifted some, so they had it relaid and then sanded and sealed etc.

Oh, now some mixed replies! Thank you clarty and 5madthings.
We have carpet in our living room and will keep it that way as we have small children, but will perhaps continue with the wood throughout the rest of downstairs.

Can I ask you all - do you think it matters if you can see several different floors from the hallway? Eg living room, stairs, kitchen, dining room, downstairs bathroom - is it better to have the same floor throughout or stick to just a couple of floors, or is it ok to have different flooring in every room?
Although we like the wood floor, we have a solid oak dining table and not sure if it would be wood overkill?!

Oh I just realised the parquet link doesn't take you quite there - it is the 3rd little picture under the main picture

I love parquet but not in a hallway. It would be damaged too easily by people coming in and out of the house.

Thanks Kelda, but as it is actually a Karndean floor which is imitation wood, it is hard wearing and has a 20 year guarantee so hopefully would stay in good condition even with a lot of wear.

kelda my.mil has had her parquet for forty years. had childrrn grow up in the house and a dog and the only thing that damaged it was a burst pipe and a water leak. it is very hard wearing.

I moved house 3 years ago and my old house had parquet which was laid in the 60s. It needed sanding and resealing but looked great. The house had parquet in the lounge and hallway and tiles in the kitchen (tiles were laid in the 00s.

IMO - Real parquet yes, Karndean parquet no. But that's partially because I think fake wood is a bit yuck because you are basically having a plastic floor pretending to be wood.
Wood floors are beautiful, can be hard wearing and minor damage can give character rather than requiring complete replacement. Karndean/Amtico are plastic dressed up to look like something else. No character and lack the real beauty & warmth of wood although the fakery is better than it used to be.

wonkylegs we also have our doubts about imitation wood!
We felt that real wood would be too costly and high maintenance.
Although I must admit this is an assumption and we have not looked into it properly.

A quick google gave me this & this

I love that wonky thank you! More affordable than I thought too. I'll have to look into the care and maintenance of it, and if it could be matched up to straight lay wood too to go into our kitchen.
I love the look of it though.

Much prefer the real wood

we live in a 1930s house and there is parquet flooring in the hallway, it was put down in the 60s I believe.

personally I don't like it, I find it a bit too 'busy' looking. We put very cheap carpet over it for the moment whilst the kids are small as the first few months we were here we had so many sliding over incidents it seemed more sensible.

If I had a choice I would go with normal plank style myself.

not sure what we are going to do with ours long term...

peri I do know what you mean about it being quite busy looking.
My thinking was that we have a very plain hallway, painted in neutral colours, and it is long and thin, with lots of natural light so very bright. I almost feel like it 'needs' a bit of a focal point in it, as though it could take a busy floor.
BUT I don't want to like it for a year or two then go off it!

What do you all think of carpet/rug runners? Could that be a possibility to change it up a bit if we go off it?!

I think better a cheaper real pine floor that you can stain different colours, sand and is a natural material and although perhaps involves some maintenance, can last for hundreds of years.

We have parquet flooring in the hall and main sitting room, it was laid in 1926 apparently, we have found receipts for the work!!!
It looks stunning. We have 4 kids who have trampled over it, for 18 years, it still looks amazing!
I oil it every month or so to keep it looking good. Rest of house has dark oak floorboards that are a reasonably close colour match.
We often get nice comments about it.