Is herringbone flooring a current fashion/will it date?

[MrBennOfFestiveRoad]

I keep seeing it everywhere and I'm not sure if it's heightened perception because I am considering having it, or if it it is currently very fashionable! I have an old house where it would fit in, so I guess that it wouldn't really date either way, just deciding what we should have really.

I've had it in my house since I moved in. In 1995 and it was obviously there before I think it's timeless

I bloody hope not; it's all through our downstairs. Old Skool (literally) parquet.
You can always change the vibe with rugs if you get bored...

It's a classic, it won't date.

Thanks, I'm almost decided, just have to persuade DH. I wish our house had original parquet!

I also think it's a classic. We would have loved it but found it too pricey. I hope you DH caves in :)

Classic

Classic if it matches the age of the house. Otherwise, like all things, it will date

Beautiful. But it does need to be real stuff not cheap imitations. Couldn't be arsed with that.

Classic

If it's the real thing (solid wood block flooring), it won't date. I've been in houses where the herringbone or other interlocking wooden block floor must have been at least 50 or 80 years old, & still looked great. It can be re-sanded & polished as & when necessary. Solid wood block flooring, if looked after properly, is a great investment.

If we were to have it, it would be planks rather than solid blocks, I don't think DH would agree to stretch to blocks, unfortunately. The house is old but not of any particular period - it's a high-ceilinged rural cottage that's been added to over the years but with few original features other than very thick walls and some quarry tiles, so I'm trying to decorate it fairly traditionally.

I think it's fairly timeless.

My parents have it in the hall of their Victorian house.

Timeless, I'd say. All the floors of the conventional I went to school in had it.

That's convent, of course.

We have 110yo herringbone parquet. Not gone out of date yet!

Ours is reclaimed school parquet and looks lovely - cheaper than good quality carpet, even allowing for the eyewateringly expensive adhesive and surprisingly reasonable fitting.

It is a classic - but is is also currently v fashionable and maybe a little bit ubiquitous at the same time. Agree full blocks or reclaimed rather than spanking new engineered wood versions look loads better.

I think that the large chevron pattern version will look dated and very 2014.....

We have 60s irko finger parquet in our hall it's indestructible utterly love it.

that sounds wonderful

My 1932 original herringbone parquet would disagree. It's beautiful.

I decided against it in my recently built house.

If I'd have been in an older property I'd have chosen it.