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Kitchen backsplash & bathroom-opinions please!

14 years ago

Hello, can you please look at this and let me know if you think this is a bad tiling job? We feel it's uneven around the window and that the tiles should have been full tiles starting from the bottom and working their way up. We feel this wasnt well-planned and just a hack of a job. Please write back asap! thanks for your help!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/47065634@N06/

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onlygirlsmom
14 years ago
If this was a professional job -it's bad. The tile job around the kitchen window is bad. Maybe you don't usually line up the grout lines on the wall tile to the floor tile but it looks odd to me (#782).
It'll be interesting to hear what BillV has to say
terezosa / terriks
14 years ago
Did a pro do this? The tile layout is very bad. It doesn't look like there was any advance planning at all. It's always bad to have such a skinny tile, especially in such a visible space (I'm referencing the backsplash especially). I would have either centered a full tile, then cut the tiles and below at an equal size, or put an accent strip somewhere in the design.

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Thanks, hudsonleigh! Glad you made that suggestion, since that is pretty much the direction I think I'll go, but I need reassurance. The plan for now is to cut the 12x12's down to 12x8ish, and lay them out side by side for a 7-8" tall splash, and then use pencil liner around it. This would maximize the patterns inherent in the tile, but I think I'd prefer rectangular to sqaure tiles, so 8" tall seemed a good idea. I was going to do 6", but 6x12 tiles seem too symmetrically assymmetrical, whereas 12x8 seem better: more golden ratio-ish. :) Will it look weird to have such a simple layout? I almost feel lazy doing it this way, as I assumed I'd be doing lots of cutting and arranging, but sometimes KISS is the best. :) Her are the tiles in their 12x12 size, and a couple pieces of pencil liner:
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Eeek! Celineike that is great! I love the legs you added on that. I was trying to talk DH into figuring out a way to add legs on our island and at first he said no way, but then said maybe. You pic will totally help my cause. Our island will be more like katieob's where the legs would be where our seating is on the long side of the island. Thanks for sharing! I really do love the Heath tile though you picked, I can't wait to see your completed kitchen and how it all comes together. I like the idea of maybe doing a light gray in the Heath that artemis78 suggests if you wanted to add a bit more color. My kitchen will be very similar in colors to yours and we still have no idea what to do for backsplash. As for cleaning, like I said we have the bigger tiles in our bathroom and along the wall that stays dry they still look great. But where they get hit by water in the shower, they are a pain to keep clean, but maybe if they had a thinner grout line, and you could somehow seal them they would stay a lot cleaner. I have no experience in the kitchen with them though.
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Turned out PERFECT Klinger. It's not taking you long to perty up your house since you moved in has it girlie?? It's just beautiful, would love to do that in our one bathroom. Did you work on this while it was on the wall?? If so, how the heck did you?? LOL Great job, and I loved you eye candy sight Calamity showed us What's next??
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I think Im realizing the beauty of simple. The tile backsplash is gone & the morter was not even dried. Phew. So I’m thinking perhaps a very simple glass backsplash. I have not thought about floor options quite yet as I have a few things in line ahead of it but it will not be there too long. Yes, live and learn. I feel better already.
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kmdnpd08
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks to everyone for your feedback, if anyone has more feedback please send asap! Suggestions are welcome and any links to pages with more information on the proper way to do this, especially concerning joins on corners.
I posted a new hyperlink so it is easier to access. thank you..

Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen & bath tile pics
terezosa / terriks
14 years ago
If you don't get many more responses you might want to repost with the word "tile" in the headline, or "Paging Bill Vincent" (the unofficial resident tile guru around here). You might also want to ask the pros over at the John Bridge Tile Forums.

Oh, and you didn't answer, did a pro do this?
kmdnpd08
Original Author
14 years ago
Hi, the tiling job is in a brand new house, done by a sub-contractor of our builder. We didnt really have a choice but trusted our building to select someone who does good work. The other subs he hired seemed to do great work, and the floor looked good so I guess we assumed he knew how to do backsplash for kitchen & bath... We talked to the builder & sub - today, he started to rip down the tile, all the while destroying our brand new sheetrock.. We had to basically tell him how to re-do it, explain step by step. cross your fingers!

Going to re-post this with tile in the subject line to get more responses, please take a look! Took more pics since he started re-doing the tiles..

Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen & bath tile pics
kmdnpd08
Original Author
14 years ago
Paging Bill Vincent! Bill, we need your help please! :-)
bill_vincent
14 years ago
I've posted comments picture by picture in the bathrooms forum.

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