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The faux parquet floor looks much better...it's not perfect, and I bet if I tried it again I could do better, but it's really not that bad.  It's in the foyer, which is a teeny room that can only be seen through another room, and it looks great in place.

Had I been paying attention to the wallpaper pattern, though, I'd have used my design with the squares between the octagons instead of the one with the diamonds between the octagons.  I didn't even realize the wallpaper had octagons until I looked at this picture...I picked it for the color and the scale of the pattern.  How cool that it has octagons!  Maybe I will do a different parquet floor...

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The other wood floors turned out better because I remembered to sand the glue residue off before I stained them this time...yet there is still enough variation to give it an 'old wood floor' look, which I like. 

I'm not sure I'm going to bother sanding down and refinishing the bedroom floor, most of it will be covered by a rug anyway.  I haven't decided yet.