With many tiles averaging anywhere from $2 to $9 per square foot for installation, this DIY trick will save you a pretty penny... literally.
Take a cue from
The Standard Grill in New York City and cover your floors in pennies [heads-side-up, of course]. I'd use a dark grout to make the copper pop and think this would look smashing in a lovely stainless kitchen.
If you want to get really adventurous, add in a few international coins from your travels and play with the shapes/sizes of the pattern. For a kid's room, you could even try your hand at Ski-ball and tile an area of the floor with remaining Chuck E. Cheese gold coins.
What do you think --- tiling your floor with money? Fantastic or frivolous? And what happens when you drop your loose change on the floor? Eek!
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Looks awesome... but isn't it illegal to deface government property? It seems like a good-looking, cheap trick, but it's actually hurting the economy by removing money from "the loop"
ReplyCommon misconception :) It is my understanding that you have to *fraudulently* deface the coin - like making a nickel look like a quarter - to be considered illegal. I see no fraudulent activity here ^_^
As for 'pulling money from the loop,' how's this different from a savings account? The property owner could have just as easily taken all those coins down to the local bank to deposit them.