Covering Your Floor With Pennies

7 steps to a diy penny floor step 1.

Covering your floor with pennies.

Her attention to detail paid off. A penny floor with an epoxy coating makes a great choice for in front of a shower or a tub because it takes a lot of repeated abuse before it will show any wear or damage. Work on nights or weekends if you want. Once the pattern was complete and the floor covered tooners used unsanded grout in between the copper pieces.

Using both old and new pennies and if you look closely just a few dimes to complement the. Work at your own pace building easy to manage 1x1ft mesh sheets of penny tile. What we instead mean is that you can cover your floor with small coins neatly arranged together so that they make for a uniform theme o heads and tails. She alternated between placing pennies heads or tails side up and made sure they were all facing the same direction.

In a nutshell the penny floor was a fun and cathartic project which i did back in 2015 she writes. Entryway penny floor ideas. Measure the floor space. Add distinctive designs by combining darker patina pennies dimes or nickles into interesting shapes throughout the floor.

Check out our website at. Create a clear thick and. Aug 11 2015 explore diane kuck s board cover it in pennies followed by 193 people on pinterest. Budget flooring ideas 1 a floor covered in pennies.

See more ideas about penny penny floor penny tile. You ll need roughly 200 to 225 pennies to complete approximately 1 square foot of flooring area as each penny has a diameter of roughly 3 4 of an inch. Avoid the back breaking work of being hunched over pushing pennies into the floor. And we re not talking about an instance where all of your change goes through a hollow pocket.

Although it seemed like a small space and not too big of a project by the time we started laying about 2 78 worth of pennies per square foot the space started to feel much bigger. The results are stunning. Wear the appropriate safety gear rated for the tasks being done. I decided to do my kitchen because the floor is only 38 square feet.