i have seen this and love the look. but man, can you imagine the time it would take to lay all those little bitty pennies?

 

So beautiful. I would love to have a countertop made of them.

 

Yeah, this comes across Pinterest pretty regularly. And that's always my thought too; cool, but how much time would it take?!

 

Hey,,, Got nothin but time.
Is there a clear sealer between the pennies? Has to be don't ya think?
A friend of mine does flooring,, gonna see him tomorrow,, I'll ask him the possibilities on countertops and flooring.
GH

 

We have a bar around here that has their huge horseshoe shaped bar covered in pennies. There must be thousands of them there. It looks pretty nice. It has some sort of clear coating over it. They are all face up except one.

 

that floor is almost sacrilege. What a disrespect to our money.

 

that floor is almost sacrilege. What a disrespect to our money.

At least someone somewhere found a use for those useless pennies that no one wants. I hate pennies so much. You can't spend them in a vending machine and you can't buy anything with them really, try handing someone hundreds of pennies and try to buy a meal out or anything from almost any store. You will get strange looks and they won't take it.

I once went to a store in a neighboring town and a teen was throwing a fit because they wouldn't take his GALLON sized Ziploc bag of change for a video game, which was mostly pennies.

Better they decorate a floor or a bar counter than the side of the roads and corrode in the bottom of my purse.

 

i would love to have a backsplash made out of them

 

that floor is almost sacrilege. What a disrespect to our money.

I'm afraid tiles are worth more per square foot than those pennies.

Looks great but all I can think of is spilling something, and not being able to remove the dark spot from the crevices... much better as a table or something, I think.

 

I'm afraid tiles are worth more per square foot than those pennies.

Looks great but all I can think of is spilling something, and not being able to remove the dark spot from the crevices... much better as a table or something, I think.

Very true and it is all legal too. Nobody is defacing the money. The pennies are still good.

 

That is really awesome looking! I would Love to have the kitchen floor, a countertop in the spare bathroom or even a table done in pennies like that. I'm sure there has to be some type of clear acrylic that is put down over them so there wouldn't be cracks & crevices & easy to clean then too.

 

I wonder what that feels like to walk on in bare feet?

 

Very pretty!!!
But disrespecting our money goes not to a good use of it but to the fact that they've printed it into oblivion. How do you top the disrespect of that?
The pre-1983 (?) pennies are worth more in their copper content than in their purchasing power.

 

pennies are not useless. It ticks me off when I see people come out of a store and throw their pennies in the street. So many people complaining about not having enough money and then so many just throw it away. it is a total disgrace.

 

If everyone jumped off the Brooklyn bridge, would you? Just because we have idiots and financially reckless people managing our government doesn't that we have to follow in their footsteps.

 

Just think of the possibilities,,, create a design layout,,, shiny new pennies, and the older dark pennies being the design.
Working as a graphic artist,,,gonna have some fun.
GH

 

pennies are not useless. It ticks me off when I see people come out of a store and throw their pennies in the street. So many people complaining about not having enough money and then so many just throw it away. it is a total disgrace.

You're right,, pennies arn't totally useless.
before I was married,, I used to go over to her house late at night and throw pennies at her window to wake her up.
GH

 

Very pretty!!!
But disrespecting our money goes not to a good use of it but to the fact that they've printed it into oblivion. How do you top the disrespect of that?
The pre-1983 (?) pennies are worth more in their copper content than in their purchasing power.

what do you expect when the American people and their government live beyond their means, are wasteful, and have delusions of grandeur.

 

save your pennies and pocket change for the year in a jar and then go cash it in at the end of the year, then come back and tell me if you still think pennies are useless.

 

Varathane is what they use to cover them. Get the "self-leveling" kind for a tabletop.

 

Again - pennies are cheaper per square foot than tiles.

You could save up pennies to pay for floor tiles - but you'd have to save a lot more of them than to use the ones you already have.

Doesn't look like waste to me. Looks like a smart way of using what you have around.

It would be foolish to lay down QUARTERS instead of tiles, though.

 

While checking this out I found that it takes 250-256 pennies per square foot. Between the cost of the pennies and the rest of the supplies I think it would make for a fairly expensive(but beautiful) and extremely time consuming floor.

And while I was doing the googling I cam across this and thought I'd share. Not a bad looking cheap option for a floor.The Impatient Gardener: A great looking wood floor for pennies? You bet!

 

terri, strand board is about $8 for a 4x8 sheet. I made some cabinets with it once and they look nice stained

 

OMG! Pennies in Canada are soon going to be made obsolete.

I AM SO doing this in my new house!!!

I wonder if hubby will go for it...also the mosaic on the wall looks beautiful as well!
I'm thinking of doing something like that for hearth for the woodstove.

 

Yeah City, not to highjack the thread, but after I run across it, I thought others might be interested in it as well. At about .25sf plus the cost of stain and poly, that works out to a pretty nice looking floor for a really good price.