Old Parquet Floors with Inlays at The Showers Mansion Bloomington, Indiana

The house is The Showers Mansion and it is located in Bloomington, Indiana. We have some date on this particular house, data that helps putting it on the history map. It has been built by a furniture magnate (W. Edward Showers) in the year 1904  (suppose 1904 is the year it was finished). The blogger which has published the image below - http://housesandbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-showers-mansion-of-bloomington/ - does mention that ”the house has intricate parquet floors in every room”. Unfortunately there is a single image published. The parquet floor looks in excellent shape over 100 years from installation.

Parquet Flooring - Herringbone with Intricate Border Inlay

A picture of a parquet flooring, a herringbone layout surrounded by an intricate border inlay. Can't say for sure (image resolution and clarity aren't the best) but I suppose is an old and refinished parquetry work.

Hardwood Floor Border

Hardwood floor border with geometric components, the DEKO CUBE pattern installed with a diamond shape Sapele parquet flooring.

Hardwood Floor Border Inlays

The hardwood floor borders can be found as built with round shapes. Difference from the geometrical shaped ones is that the design can be way more creative. As example the below image shows a Pavex Parquet hardwood floor border inlay belonging to the MARQUETERIA Collection. The presented border is installed with a brown color African hardwood which founds itself included in the middle of the design. Walls with a classic golden wallpaper.

 

Parquet Border Close View - Old Nail Pinned Work, Boston

Boston. Close view of a hardwood border installation. Center filled with small field patterns (parquet panels).
All nail pinned on every element.

Traditional Living Room design by Boston Interior Designer Linda Merrill

Parquet border in Sankt Petersburg

parquet, a photo by liz&jeff | patonphotography.ca on Flickr.

Large inlay border in one of the Sankt Petersburg palaces - a type of Greek key pattern. Some of the works there have been remade after the damages inflicted in the WW II.

The works in the palaces of Hermitage and Pavlovsk (but not only) are worth seeing.

Infinity - Wood Border Inlay Installed in a Hall

A couple of pictures with the INFINITY wood floor border installed in a hall. The installation has been done in a hallway together with Oak Basketweave parquet floor inlay pattern. A sample of an installation in a narrow space with hardwood borders at a 63 mm 2 1/4 in. wide. Installation by Naturally Wood Ltd., Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom.