Couple glues 60,000 pennies to bedroom floor

NBCChicago.com ^ | January 21, 2013 | Marcus Riley,

[BenLurkin]

We'd been looking up options and were thinking about being green when I said we should just tile the floor in pennies," Lange, a entrepreneur and self-described design freak, says.

Belden wasn't completely on board at first, but before she could put her two cents in, the project off and running.

"I came home one day and found a small corner was done, so I thought 'I guess we're doing it,'" she recalled.

Thus began four months of painstaking work they dubbed "pennying," which involves laying down a special glue that acts like grout and individually placing the pennies heads up on the floor of the 380 square-foot room.

An estimated 59,670 pennies were used to completely cover the floor, which was then sanded down to a shiny copper sheen and cemented in with a clear coat as smooth as a sheet of glass. They spent close to $1,000 on the project, which made for a lot of trips back and forth to the bank for more pennies. And created more than a few odd glances from the tellers.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

Just thought this might interest you.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Penny related, but sorta, kinda off topic.

If you cut your own garden flowers (or buy a bouquet at the grocery store) throw a couple SHINY pennies in the vase. That tiny bit of copper will keep the water fresher than the pack of preservatives you get w/store bought flowers.

[BenLurkin]

Great tip, and sounds like fun.

Thanks!

[blam]

"Just thought this might interest you."

Neat...maybe I'll do mine in nickels.

[Jet Jaguar]

Exactly.

[ruiner]

I was a little curious why they had to take so many trips back and forth to the bank. They could have, you know, just done the math and estimated how many pennies were needed based on the size of the room and a given penny. Heck, if they really wanted to be green they could have limited themselves to TWO trips maximum!