herringbone parquet

The walls are painted pale blue-grey and the floor is herringbone parquet.

Along with such authentic touches as herringbone parquet, they note, Americans want creature comforts like shower stalls and washer-dryers.

IN the beginning, it was a series of featureless rooms bereft of moldings, free of style and afflicted with bland herringbone parquet floors.

Built during Brooklyn's last boom time, in the 1920's, these had maids' rooms and pantries, delicate herringbone parquet floors and semiprivate entrances.

While some of the chateau's 18th-century details, like the herringbone parquet floor in the salon and the original boiserie in the master bedroom, are striking, others are hardly practical.

Apart from the cracking of the herringbone parquet underfoot, and the occasional sounds of horse's hooves striking gravel in the courtyard below, a sepulchral silence reigns over the rows of tall exhibition cases.

The herringbone parquet was first used by the Toronto Raptors during their SkyDome years, and was revived by the renamed Brooklyn Nets upon moving to the Barclays Center in 2012.

Mr. Gross, the director of development at a social service organization, said he interviewed four brokers, including one from Corcoran, before deciding to list his one-bedroom apartment, which has herringbone parquet floors and beam ceilings, for $429,000 with Ms. Hunter.

Patricia Cliff, the Corcoran Group (212) 836-1063; www.corcoran.com MAINTENANCE: $1,541 a month PROS: This fully renovated co-op is in the Rockefeller Apartments and has herringbone parquet floors throughout.

Originally designed by the New York firm of Buchman and Fox, the building included a limestone facade with a wrought-iron and glass door, interior mahogany paneling, stained-glass floral and trellis-patterned windows, herringbone parquet oak floors, period moldings and a winding central staircase.

On the Thursday before Christmas, the herringbone parquet floor shone, the walls of the kitchen were resolutely white, and there were two plump TV cushions, the kind with arms and stiff triangular backs, on the floor in a front parlor (there are two), rather hopefully placed in front of a television set.