Visited a friend's new house in Austin and noticed something wild about their kitchen backsplash

They used actual pennies instead of tile, coated in epoxy. It took them like 3 weekends to lay them all out but the copper patina looks amazing. Anyone tried a weird material like that for a backsplash?

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robert6424d ago

Oh jeez I gotta say something here, that's not actually copper patina you're looking at. Real copper turns green over time from oxidation, but those pennies are mostly zinc with just a thin copper coating, so when you epoxy them they stay that reddish-brown color unless they get scratched or damaged. Still looks cool though, I bet the pattern came out real nice with all that effort they put into it.

xena_fisher4924d ago

You said "those pennies are mostly zinc," but actually US pennies from 1982 and later are 97.5% zinc with a thin copper plating, so you're right about the coating but the core is mostly zinc not copper.