Practice Management

One of the biggest problems I see with home offices is the flooring.  Too much carpeting.  Task chairs, desks and the like can do a great deal of damage to the carpeting.  I prefer hard surfaces.  In my home office I have a slate floor, but then I replaced all of the floors in my home with slate to provide continuity and easy care.  Also, I have allergies as do some of my children.  Carpeting is generally not good in the care and treatment of allergies.

Well, here is a fun thought if you want a new hard surface in your home office, you do not want to spend a lot of money (but possibly a lot of time), you want to preserve your floor's value, you are looking for good earth tones, you are looking to stay green by repurposing materials, and you would like a conversation piece.

PENNIES.  No not the store, but the coin.  Put in a copper floor.

As posted by Lloyd Alter at Treehugger, the Standard hotel in New York City used 50,000 pennies as flooring in its new cafe.  What do you mean 50,000 pennies?  Well, that is $500.00.  It looks good and interesting as well.

Check out the story and photos on Treehugger by clicking here.