Floor Made Out Of Pennies
She began by sorting the coins into light versus dark.
Floor made out of pennies. Easy to mix use no bubbles and set in less than a day painted feature wall with homebase chocolate truffle 096454 very happy with result. Perfect for the bathroom floor home entryway or even a stand alone tile carpet copper pennies can be implemented into multiple patterns and layouts from mosaic pieces to geometric figures and are sure to catch the eye of every guest who crosses your threshold. If you seal your penny floor with epoxy the epoxy will harden between the pennies in the same way a grout would. Tonya stecyk decided she wanted to diy a small area in her home so she came up with the idea of using pennies as tiles.
What makes this penny floor really stand out is the superb wave design that was created using the natural patina of the copper coins. Using about 130 in the one cent. The end result is a floor that truly shines like well a new penny. Talk about a rich looking floor design.
Sunflower river if you want to see a really special diy penny floor then take a look at what kat and jenny created in their sunflower river community bathroom. We had only made 29 tiles and had about 38 square feet so after laying and gluing all the tiles down we started using elmer s glue and placed each penny on the floor. Thus we had to take a straight edge ruler and secure the pennies and pull the contact paper up row by row. After gluing each cent in.
Penny floor concrete base painted black took skirting boards off pva glued all the pennies down 36 epoxy resin bought from www elichem co uk i used the general purpose clear epoxy resin. Using both old and new pennies and if you look closely just a few dimes to complement the copper graham arranged each coin to create her own variegated mosaic floor. The trick is not to use too much glue. Tooners shared that the flooring makeover took two months to complete and cost roughly 350 for materials including three 50 bags of pennies from the bank 10 bottles of elmer s glue grout wood filler and epoxy.