I wanted a home. I had an apartment since I moved to this town, but it didn't feel like mine. I wanted something of my own to make my own. I started looking at houses in November 2010. I closed on my house in early 2011. It's a downtown brick house in a historical town. I love it. My home was built in the 1850s and is in need of a little lovin'- this blog is to chronicle my projects.
One of the small projects that became a big project was my back door. When I bought the house the back door was rotted out. This allowed water underneath the door and right onto my kitchen floor. So instead of just changing out the door we had to cut out part of the floor inside. This calls for help!
The door was installed and it's fabulous. But I still had a section of plywood flooring in my kitchen. Not exactly ideal. I knew it would be impossible to match and repair the floor to the current flooring in the kitchen. I also knew I didn't necessarily want traditional tile or laminate. So I headed to my good ole Lowe's and the bank to get the supplies to tile my floor in pennies! I prepped the floor by painting it so it looked like this:
Then my mama came to town! And we started to glue and glue and glue pennies.
At this point I ran out of pennies. Bummer. This usually wouldn't be a problem except that it is a bank holiday and so I had to try and hustle the cashiers at Lowe's for pennies. Seriously, they didn't want to give them up. And then even that wasn't enough. So I went and knocked on my neighbors' door. My next door neighbors were so kind as to give me all the pennies they had. It ended up being just enough and was obviously meant to be.
I didn't want the grouted look to hold the pennies in so I bought two boxes of Famowood Glaze Coat pour-on epoxy. It was pretty painless but I'm glad that I had two extra hands helping to mix while I spread the epoxy. Thanks, ma!
The kit was a two part mixture that you combine, stir, pour into another container, stir again and then pour onto the surface. I used two kits a the suggestion of my mom and I'm so glad I did because it made big difference. I don't have pictures of this step because I haven't trained my dog to take pictures and it was a four hand process with only the two of us. BUT! Here is the end of the process!
I absolutely love it! It is currently hardening. I think the package said 72 hours but because I used two kits I want to play it safe so I'm keeping it covered until this upcoming Friday. I didn't want any dust or grey dogs getting on the epoxy so I used a plastic drop cloth and the help of my mom to make a tent to cover the area. Next step is to trim it out after it completely hardens and it's done! On to the next project...
