Tiling backsplash.... will tiling only the lower half look silly?
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clergychick
13 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (19)oldbat2be - the tile is from Sonoma. It's the Vihara collection. Color is Karuna in silk. Thanks, motherof3sons! anna - I'm glad to know you like your black hood. I tried to search for your kitchen, but didn't have any luck. (I'm never sure I'm looking the right way on this site...) Any chance you could share a pic with me? As far as the cherry - that's not the floor, it's the wood for my island and the casing for the windows as well as the seat there. I'm not sure I want to go darker and I know my builder has probably already bought the cherry. So, I might rethink the backsplash so it ties in better. I'm starting to lean towards a light sage green subway with lots of variation. That will pull out the green veins in the SS nicely, hopefully coordinate with the red (I'm thinking redheads always look best in green, right? LOL) and look nice next to the yellowy cream cabs. Ugh - so many choices! What makes it worse is that we're in a small town and I have to travel 2+ hours to get to any really big tile shops with some of the brands of tile I'm interested in....See Moreend tile where uppers and lowers not exactly even?
Comments (8)I agree. Most times, that's exactly how I'll end it. But there have been several people in here who've come up with other creative solutions. I had one a couple of years ago, where ending the tile flush with the upper cabinets interfered with a set of light switches, and would've left the cover plate half on and half off the tile, so what I did was to come out flush to the lower cabinets, and just round off the top piece of tile:...See Moretile backsplash edge window only one side
Comments (8)Eam44- sorry my grammar is broken, lived up north, way down south and some Korean and spanish mixed in, most likely I talk funny too, lol. I do have a 4” backsplash on other wall that is my formica countertop back splash that I am replacing with a butcher block type counter in the future and that will not have a built in back splash, then hopefully continuing tile to that counter space. For the meantime i would like to paint that area under and up sides of window for now to match tile that will be behind stove and that also matches my new cabinet color throughout the entire kitchen. Thank you for responding. Opposite wall in kitchen has an old dresser that I refinished with other uppers. All getting new paint. I have been on HOUZZ with this similar dilemma previously, and received great help, I believe that I will have to seal my shiplap areas for tile application. Clear as mud?...See Morehalf bath side hustle- tile shortage? 2 wallpapers?
Comments (6)Ok, well if it is already a dark little room, are you sure you want to put that dark wallpaper in there? I'd be worried it will feel like a cave. Maybe you need to consider upgrading your lighting in that room. Of the vanity choices you show, my first choice would be the first one. Looks like Dark Oak and a Craftsman type style. That reads the most "farmhouse" to me...the other two are much more modern and the middle one reads very mid century modern to me. The little I've seen of the decor in the washroom doesn't make me think MCM would match. Would it be a LOT of work to get rid of the wallpaper? I think if you are going with the darker coloured vanity and light floors, I'd find a paint colour that works with the flooring colour a bit more than the blue does. Maybe something like BM Seapearl (below). Or maybe you put the colour below the trim piece and white walls above if you are going to have white toilet and sink. I do like the artwork you've got on the walls - very farm like and lovely. A very nice touch....See Morepadola07
13 years agosparklekitty
13 years agoI think it is OK to do a shorter tiling, but in the cases I have thought it looked good it has been very simple and did not include any accent tile. I am considering doing it in my kitchen - to me it has a farm house feel. Keep in mind that you will have the tile and the paint above it, then the cabinet finish above that - that is why I thought the accent tile might be a bit much. Just because we have never seen what you are suggesting doesn't mean it would not look really nice - if you do the accent tile I would suggest that either the paint is similar in color or tone to the tile or that the accent tile is - the goal of avoiding a striping look (unless that is what you want :)
I hope I do not offend anyone by posting some photos of other GW kitchens (saved before I made it a habit of saving photos with user names so I could find a link to their photo.)
Really nice top trim on tile to accent the shorter run.
This is definitely a really lovely GW tile, I wish I had a photo of the whole kitchen (ore remembered whose it was.)
It is a carrera mini-brick
One additional question - why would the tile have to go all the way up the sink wall? Would you not stop it at the 18" height of the rest? Include a photo for more specific feedback of kitchen and of tile you are considering.
Good luck.
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