The checkerboard pattern has had a recent resurgence, but it arguably never went out of style (think: the everlasting elegance of checkered French chateau foyer floors, for example). Characterized ...

Potts notes that the checkerboard pattern is a prolific design that can be spotted everywhere from an imperial villa in Japan to a 1950s-style diner in American suburbia.

But this pattern is more than another passing trend in the Instagram algorithm. Long before any of this had ever occurred, I was introduced to the checkered way of life in my childhood home.