The penny floor template is your key to success when creating your penny floor or penny project. With the penny floor template you can use your floors while setting your pennies onto mosaic sheets and avoid the back-breaking work of being hunched over pushing pennies into the floor.
Who knew you could get such a rich-looking floor … for pennies?!
Bottle caps, leather belts, and pennies are just a few of the unusual materials that creative do-it-yourselfers have incorporated in these cheap flooring ideas. Click through for 15 finished projects prove that—for very little money—you can add a lot of beauty and interest underfoot!
DIY Penny Floor Project: photos, materials, and step-by-step how-tos. Have you ever seen a floor made entirely of pennies? You've gotta see this!
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There are a few mosaic tiling tips and tricks you'll want to follow when installing the...
It's held up really nicely since she made it back in 2015.
When starting a renovation at home, it’s important to make every last cent count. This DIY renovation literally puts no penny to waste, and the results are stunning! Tonya Tooners took advantage of every lucky penny she found. After acquiring 13,000 of them, Tooners, a DIY enthusiast, decided to put them to use in a...
Beautify your wall, flooring, backsplash with the penny tile. It is a simple way to upgrade your house. We will show you the best ideas you need to consider.
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Whether you want to invest a lot of time and materials, or create a simple project with only a few items, this tutorial will provide the how-to, you provide the creativity and a few supplies. - The sounds this little beauty makes is actually magical!
These penny-pinching creative ideas will have you pouring out your change jars and emptying all your pockets. After all, a penny saved is a penny to CRAFT with!
Hello! Here's our regular feature where we share tips, tools & techniques that have caught our eye, things we have Pinned, and things we have tried. These are probably not going to change your life(!) but might make it a bit easier... Patina is "a thin layer that forms on the surface of stone; copper, bronze and similar metals (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes)". It is also a great technique to give pennies a pretty colour!! Looking on Pinterest, it seems like there are various ways of achieving a patina finish. I used the vinegar and salt method, taken from this great tutorial by Rena Klingenberg. To start, I raided the coin jar for about 40 pennies. I mixed equal measures of vinegar and salt (approx. 3 tablespoons), then stirred to help some of the salt dissolve. (If you wanted shiny pennies, this would be a good mixture to use and then rinse off straight away.) I left the pennies soaking for about an hour. (You could probably leave for less time, but I got distracted by watching the tennis and forgot about them!). I spread them out on paper towel and left in the sun to dry, being careful not to wipe any of the vinegar/salt mixture off. Gradually, the pennies started to become tarnished. Once they were dry, I gently brushed any obvious bits of salt and admired all the pretty colours! Each penny gave a different result and there were a wide range of blues and golds. I really like the final results and now just need to think of a project to use them for! Any ideas?! I was thinking of decorating a plant pot with them, but I guess they may need to be 'sealed' first. Or perhaps mount them and display in a frame? What do you reckon?! We are linking up to these parties! Update: 10th July 14 - this post has been featured here by Craftgawker
Make your wood floors look and feel clean with the help of this DIY floor cleaner. It's easy to make and even easier to use! Here's what you need.
Ranging from caustic to cutesy, Penny Byrne's creations demand consideration and reveal layers of meaning under often bizarre exteriors.
Wondering what to do with that jar of pennies collecting dust in the back of your cupboard? Well, we've finally found a good use for them thanks to Tonya Tooners. The Portland, Oregon-based DIY enthusiast used over 13,000 coins to make a beautiful patterned floor in her house, and as you can see, it's worth every penny!
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It has been said on Pinterest that one can make a caribbean blue stain out of pennies soaked in vinegar for a week. To the frustration of many pinners, this has experiment has failed over and over again. But before I knew this, I wanted to take a stab at that oh-so-gorgeous penny stain! I love it when I can experiment with science AND art. It's, like, what my brain was made for or something. Luckily, my brain is also wired to do research before starting such a project (lesson learned from many childhood volcanos gone wrong. *Shudder*). I figured there HAD to be some sort of ratio of vinegar to pennies, estimated time lapse, etc. etc. etc. This is when I found out if you throw a handful of pennies in vinegar for a week you get a niiiice big chunk of!!!!.... nothing. So what's the dealy, yo? Luckily I found the answers! There are two important facts to note if you want to do a penny stain. 1. Not all pennies are created equal: "In 1962, the cent's tin content, which was quite small, was removed. That made the metal composition of the cent 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. The alloy remained 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper (copper-plated zinc). Cents of both compositions appeared in that year." - US Mint.gov I also read another blogger who experimented with pennies and vinegar and found that she had most success with pennies from the 1960's. So maybe it is the tin from pennies before 1962 that contributed to the deep blue? Not sure on the details yet, but 1960's pennies DO work the best (as you will see later in the blog post). 2. You can't use vinegar alone! There must be an introduction of oxygen in order to get any chemical reaction going. This can quickly be done by adding a secret ingredient. Are you ready for it? HYDROGEN PEROXIDE. Just add even a couple of tablespoons and you are going to get yourself a stain in a matter of hours. This is why no one was having success by just adding pennies to vinegar. So I decided to try a little experiment. Since I didn't want to waste time copying other experiments, I just did two jars of pennies mixed with vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Here were my results: I was actually quite shocked at how quickly the chemical reaction happened on my jar full of pennies from the 70's through the 2000's. It literally happened in a matter of minutes. However, the 60's took a couple of hours to start looking blue. It did, however, start to turn blue on the first day. Yet oddly while the 60's penny stain stayed blue, the other elixir did not. The 60's got more and more blue, and the 70's through 2000's color practically diminished by day 3. It was completely gone by day 5. I was actually quite bummed because I was excited to see what sort of colors each stain produced. They were so different! I wonder if I had only used pennies before 1982 (when they changed to mostly zinc) it would have stayed that cool, mossy green color (hey, YOU should give that one a shot!) But as it was, my 1960 penny stain won out, and that was what I used on my wooden sign. I had enough stain from about 6 oz of vinegar and 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to do 6 coats on 3 wooden letters. It turned into a BEAUTIFUL greenish blue hue. I wasn't ever planning staining all of my letters. I also wanted to try modge podging some beautiful tissue paper I've been saving for months onto one of the letters, and the last letter was saved to pay homage to the source of the stain itself. I literally wanted pennies EVERYWHERE! The tissue paper letter was just an added bonus. (Side note: I also read that the stain isn't "stable" so it is a smart idea to seal the stain. I just used modge podge over the stained letters as a sealant) This is how the final product turned out: AWESOME, RIGHT!?!?!? Wow, I was so surprised at how pretty it turned out. I think I'm going to hang it on my wall over my makeup area. But seriously, imagine how pretty this stain would be on some old wood furniture? Game boards, bird houses, the possibilities are ENDLESS. So now you know how to do a REAL penny stain, the right way. Get to it! And send me pictures of the masterpieces you make. I would love to see it all :) Happy Creating!
