Covering Your Floor With Pennies

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Covering your floor with pennies.

Create a clear thick and. Entryway penny floor ideas. Add distinctive designs by combining darker patina pennies dimes or nickles into interesting shapes throughout the floor. She alternated between placing pennies heads or tails side up and made sure they were all facing the same direction.

Check out our website at. 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. I decided to do my kitchen because the floor is only 38 square feet. The results are stunning.

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. After that dried she sealed the floor with a layer of epoxy. Measure the floor space. See more ideas about penny penny floor penny tile.

7 steps to a diy penny floor step 1. Avoid the back breaking work of being hunched over pushing pennies into the floor. Budget flooring ideas 1 a floor covered in pennies. 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.

Use your floors while setting your pennies onto mosaic sheets. In a nutshell the penny floor was a fun and cathartic project which i did back in 2015 she writes. 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. 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. Once the pattern was complete and the floor covered tooners used unsanded grout in between the copper pieces. Aug 11 2015 explore diane kuck s board cover it in pennies followed by 193 people on pinterest. Work on nights or weekends if you want.