Here is the tile...I will lay them vertically behind the range. I bought some 2"x2" coordinating glass tiles to make up some of the space since these are not quite long enough (I have 30" from my range to the range hood although part of that is hidden by the 5" riser on my range). Here is a link that might be useful: Dune Venezia Megolas tile

beekeeperswife- so far not yet ;). He mostly sticks to the grill outside anyways. pirula- the reason I am not sure is because there will be very little regular painted wall in the kitchen proper, and the cabinets die into a refirgerator cabinet on the left (same color as the rest of the cabs) and a drywalled utility closet on the right (wall color). I am not sure if it will look weird to have a stripey effect going with horizontal bands of color. I will post a pic once I can get a clear shot of what I mean. I've got some time to decide on that. We have to get the beadboard up before Monday because the soapstone templating is on Monday. I want it behind the stone so I don't lose any countertop (bb is 3/4" thick). Then we will do some sort of small molding piece at the change of plane between the ss and the bb.

I looked at this a while ago and have three manufacturers in my notes: Glasskote, US Color Glass, and Soda Glass. Note they are backpainted rather than letting the paint on the wall show through.

This thread has been very informative for me as we are just starting a kitchen reno, so thank you to all contributors. We plan to do a quartz backsplash, including behind a 30" wide residential gas cooktop (not a range or stove). Please bear with me as I continue to explain! I looked at the specs of the cooktop I was planning to order. Based on those specs and assumption the new quartz countertop depth is 25.5" (I know assumptions are risky, but since 25.5" is what we have now and considered standard, I'm going with that for this example), my calculations are: 25.5" (countertop depth) - 21.25" (cooktop depth) - 3" (min distance from rear wall) - 1.875" (min distance from counter front) = -0.625" Which means I'm 5/8" short, and this isn't taking into account the thickness of the quartz backsplash, which I believe should not be included in the 3" from rear wall guideline from the cooktop manufacturer. Sorry if I'm hurting anyone's brain with math today! Just looking for some validation my logic is correct in how I should be calculating. And also curious if my belief the distance from the rear of the cooktop to the front of the quartz backsplash (not wall) should be 3." I plan to look for a different cooktop, hopefully one that is closer to 20" deep and add the backguard just to be safe (thanks to @Elizabeth Alvarez Sell for sharing her backguard photo)!