Herringbone & parquet floors in Queens

Borders, medallions, stairs & rails in Queens: what to expect

Pattern floors turn up all over Queens, from prewar apartment parquet to new herringbone in houses. Our crew drives in from the Brooklyn shop. Calls for pattern and parquet work come from Astoria, Forest Hills, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Ridgewood, Jamaica and Rockaway Beach. Services other than pattern and parquet work in Queens are listed on our Queens flooring page.

The finishing touch is the trim: baseboards, shoe molding and quarter round cover the edge of the new parquet and can be reused or replaced as part of the job.

Parquet and patterns in Queens homes

Older apartment buildings and houses across Queens still have original parquet, often worn gray in the traffic paths and loose near the doors. If the blocks still have wood to sand, resetting the loose ones and refinishing the field brings it back without tearing it out.

For new work, herringbone and chevron suit living rooms and halls in Forest Hills and Bayside houses as well as apartments, as long as the subfloor is flat enough for the pattern.

Patterns and extras

Planning pattern work

Herringbone and chevron take roughly twice the labor of a straight install, and borders add more, so the schedule is set after measuring. Unfinished pattern floors can be stained and finished on site with low-odor polyurethane. See our main herringbone, parquet and stairs page and refinishing in Queens.

Pattern details in Queens apartments and houses

Queens parquet comes in many forms: simple square blocks in postwar apartments, herringbone in older buildings, and occasional borders around a living room. When blocks have come loose, the cause is often old adhesive giving up, so we check how much of the field is still bonded before recommending a reset or a partial relay. A border that has shifted can be lifted and reset so its lines run true with the field again. For new pattern floors, Forest Hills and Bayside houses have room for wide halls and living rooms where herringbone reads especially well, while apartment rooms suit a smaller board so the pattern does not look crowded. Stain can make a pattern stand out or recede: lighter colors show the zig-zag clearly, darker ones read more uniform. We sand test spots so you can see the effect on your own floor before the whole field is finished.

Photos from our work

No Queens pattern-floor job is posted yet, so these gallery examples are captioned by type of work only. Full gallery →

What affects the cost

The area, the pattern style and whether you add a border or field detail are the main factors on a parquet job. Stairs and hallways, plus any damage uncovered along the way, are counted separately. For a starting point, get an instant preliminary estimate online.