Quilts as Flooring

I thought you might enjoy seeing these old photos of painted floors that I did in my old frame shotgun house that I owned at one time in near-downtown Atlanta (Lake Claire). I put down wafer board 4x4-foot squares, primed, backgrounded, and did quilt paintings. This first one shows my son's nursery. I decorated the rest of the room in a North Woods theme continuing the idea of the quilt motifs:

This picture is of the front porch that we enclosed. I painted a hooked rug at the entry that has tracings of my baby's hand and foot prints and of my then-husband's and my hands:

This photo shows part of the living room, which was about 15x30-feet, so it was a pretty amazing sight with all of those large quilt block motifs, which were set on point on the 4x4-foot squares. The applique blocks are taken from the cover of "Treasury of American Quilts" by Carter and Houck:

I bought this 1922 house before I got married and worked on its renovation for ten years, including knocking down and carting out the brittle plaster and lathe from all rooms myself and hand stripping about 12 doors, years of extremely rigorous work, and then unfortunately was not able to keep it post-divorce, so it is quite the heartrending experience for me to look at these pictures.