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Where to end backsplash?

12 years ago

I posted a related thread asking for color advice in Home Decor, which perhaps should have been posted here since the color questions are mainly regarding the kitchen. Anywho...

I'm planning to paint my kitchen cabinets white, hopefully replacing (or at the least resurfacing) my ugly purple laminate countertops, and I'm leaning towards a white bead board backsplash. Some in home decor have suggested tile, and I'm thinking about it. However, either way, I'm not sure where the backsplash would need to end.

Where the orange, green, blue or pink lines are? Or somewhere else? It would be from countertop to cabinets on the right and from countertop to bar top behind the sink, but the transition I'm not sure about.

Also, do you think the bead board backsplash should continue over the counter to the right of the fridge? If so, what height (blue line, orange line, other)? How about continuing it as wainscotting on the fridge wall past the doorway? Would that provide continuity & interest or just look weird?

I think I'm beginning to over-think this and confuse myself!

Here is a link that might be useful: My related color help thread

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dilly_ny
12 years ago
If you do end up replacing the counter top, how about swapping the placement of the lonely end cabinet and the fridge. Eventually, you could get an under the counter mounted microwave to make up for the lost space with the short upper cabinet. If you did this, I would end the beadboard back splash before the fridge, at the orange line. If you continue the beadboard around to the other side of the doorway, I think chair rail height is appropriate, so that would be lower than the orange line. Perhaps match chair rail height to your island height. Beadboard on the front of your island would look awesome. Good luck from an amateur.
dianalo
12 years ago
I'd use the blue markings as shown in both pix.
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Assuming the right side of the upper right hand cabinet is an inch or two from the corner, I'd stop the splash there. I don't like the idea of running it all the way to the corner, because I think it would look awkward from the side. I'd cap the end with metal (Schluter), but any unobtrusive cap would be OK. Honestly, I'm more concerned about the way the hood isolates the upper right wall cabinet - it looks lost over there - and would think about continuing the tile up to the bottom of the hood, or even up to the top of the wall cabinets, to tie it into the rest of the cabinet line.
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If the island is light grey, a corresponding light grey glass or ceramic subway would be lovely, or a whisper-light blue if the grey on the island is cool-toned. I'm not a fan of herringbone splashes, they're too busy for my taste, but I'm probably in the minority on that.
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Thank you beth H the marble is double sealed. . It is honed. i tested it thoroughly before install with everything. No staining , if lemon or ir lime is left for a long period of time ( neither of which I use regualrly) it will leave a light etch, but with the honing, it really is non existent.. I had to bend over and twist my neck while holding the sample in the right light to even find find the test etch. Oiils, sauce, , butter , etc…. no staining at all!! I had a few cutting boards/ serving boards made from extra marble. I actually have this same marble on a custom sideboard I had made 9 years ago for my dining room, but it is polished on the sideboard. the sideboard is now in my living room, as we removed the wall for kitchen renovarion,, so it lost its home in the DR- LOL but, it works in the LR, so its fine. my shelves are chantilly lace- not wood. It just wasnt the look I wanted. I have a clear water glass sconce with chrome hardware for over the shelves and 2 large matching water glass pendants for over the island.
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jessicaml
Original Author
12 years ago
A worthy idea, dilly; thank you! I've thought of swapping the fridge & that cabinet when I was trying to figure out how to get more useable counter space, but I wasn't sure what to do about the uppers. Our microwave is currently banished to the spare room because I was sick of it hogging counter space. I do wonder where my husband will dump his clutter, though (mine is more spread out...his collects on that piece of counter), and whether it would be worth the hassle.

Thanks, dianalo! :)
Circus Peanut
12 years ago
I love the idea of extending your beadboard as wainscotting all across the room -- ties everything in together in a small space. I did a similar tile "wainscot" with my backsplash tile and think it worked very nicely.

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