Treating a floor right
In the old central building, magnificent wood floors with inlayed patterns were installed in many of the rooms. However, according to a report from Lord Bethoncourt, it needed to be replaced repeatedly because "the maids dump whole buckets of water and ... sweep the valuable floors with sand." Luckily, a few of the original valuable parquet floors from the construction of the palace have survived, for example in the Chinese lacquer cabinet and in the boiserie cabinet in the hunting pavilion.
