Flooring: Light-colored herringbone or straight lay

A light-colored wooden floor. Two methods: one is French herringbone, using short planks of light white oak arranged in a herringbone pattern, with fine, straight, quiet grain; the other is wide plank straight lay, with planks twenty centimeters or more wide and few seams. The color is a very light warm brown, two or three shades darker than the walls, with a matte hard wax oil finish. The floor is the only element in the space with a clear directionality. Avoid: using dark and reddish wood floors, using complex parquet patterns, polishing the floor to a reflective sheen, changing flooring materials in different rooms.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片淺色木地板。兩種做法:一是法式魚骨拼,用淺白橡的短板以人字形排列,紋理細直安靜;二是寬版的直鋪,板寬二十公分以上、接縫很少。顏色是很淺的暖褐,比牆深兩三階,表面是霧面硬蠟油。地板是空間裡唯一有明確方向性的元素。避免:使用深色與帶紅的木地板、使用複雜的拼花圖案、把地板打磨到反光、在不同房間更換地坪材質。