Patio-stone Mario pixel-art

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In a perfect world the resale value of this home would go up due to this.

/I would also surface those bricks and then seal them to really make the mosaic pop.

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Someone made Mario characters using 1" tiles around my parents’ neighborhood. I’d expect something like that in, say, Austin or Portland, but this was on the concrete barriers adjoining a country club. There was at least one more a couple of miles away, at an otherwise nondescript intersection. Alas, none of them lasted very long…

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The earliest source I’m finding online is a reddit thread from 2011, where the OP provides a WIP photo that none of the other sources seem to provide:

1,144 votes and 154 comments so far on Reddit

1,152 votes and 154 comments so far on Reddit

1,148 votes and 154 comments so far on Reddit

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Maybe if you tell them the bricks contain gold coins.

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When re-paving my patio last year I seriously considered a Tetris motif. I planned it out and everything but in the end decided against it. I kinda wish I’d done it now.

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