Woman makes her floor out of money

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Glued 250,000 pennies down and used them as tile

Updated: Monday, 05 Nov 2012, 7:46 AM CST
Published : Monday, 05 Nov 2012, 6:06 AM CST

GARFIELD, Pa. (CNN/WTAE) - A woman in Garfield, Pa., used about 250,000 pennies to create it.

Mel Angst owns a tattoo gallery and coffee shop and said it was cheaper to glue the money down than buy tile.

She picked up the pennies at a local bank and traded tattoos for manpower.

Angst said it took about 300 hours and more than three weeks to penny-tile her floor, which is a total of 800 square feet.

Glued 250,000 pennies down and used them as tile