Penny Wall Tutorial
As tedious as it seems, we has such a fun time making the penny wall! It turned out far better than we had expected! In a nutshell, this is how we made it. Materials - 3/8” Plywood - Liquid Nails Epoxy (Approx. 8 tubes) - Goof Off! - Pennies! - Molding - Metallic Paint (for molding) - Screws - Finishing Nails Tools - Drill - Hammer - Hands This project pretty much started like this; “Lucy, I am going to make a penny wall on that space next to the dining table” “…Ok!”. …and off we went to The Home Depot. Clearly a lot of planning went into this. So we picked up our plywood and decided it would have to be thick enough to sustain the weight of the pennies – we got a piece that was 3/8” thick. Wally the wood guy was nice enough to cut it to size for us. The area of the wall we covered was 50” wide by whatever the height is from the floor to the ceiling. After a quick chat with our favorite paint guy Rick, we decided on a tube of Clear Liquid Nails Adhesive –