Comment on God of Carnage - Scenic Painting by MelissaFindley
At all the theatres I have been involved with the floor is sacred. The idea that you paint your floor is just astonishing to me. In your previous photos of this set I thought the regular wood was your theatre's natural floor, and the stained red wood was a slightly raised piece you had created.
I've worked at a couple of theaters where the floor is treated as sacred -- it seems most common in very old theaters where they want to preserve the history of the building or something. But I've also worked at more than a few where the stage is absolutely part of the set and is often painted.
We joke sometimes that the stage, at this point, is more paint than wood. Consider that we do around 6 MainStage shows a season, and each show is at LEAST one coat of paint, probably more. That's 6-12 layers of paint per season, and the last time we stripped the floor was around 2000 … it's a lot of paint. 
Every so often something will happen (a piece of equipment might catch and gouge up a bit of paint or peel it back) and it's like the rings on a tree. You can look at the colors and count back shows.
Every so often something will happen (a piece of equipment might catch and gouge up a bit of paint or peel it back) and it's like the rings on a tree. You can look at the colors and count back shows. We've been discussing stripping it again. It's only been done once since our current stage was built, but it's getting to be about time again.
Most of the theatres I have been with were older, one was on the registry for historic buildings. Except that one, my experience makes me think it is more of a monetary or tradition thing. Possibly even that simply nobody had thought of it before.
It is probably at least half paint by now. Those rings sound really neat though, I would like to take pictures of them.
I do not envy you trying to strip that floor. Although it sounds like it sorely needs doing.
A lot of shows can get by with a nice wood floor or a neutral black floor. I just feel like it adds so much more to a set when you can take it that step further and bring the floor into it and make it part of the set. I have a few other sets I've worked on that I'm planning to upload, and for all but one we painted the floor.
Painting the floor certainly helped create the scene on this set. I look forward to seeing them!