ocd gc doesn't like tile around window, help me please.
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11 years agoboxerpups
11 years agoHi CelticNE,
I think it looks great. Does your tile guy need to
see other images?
Here are a few that might sway his worries.
~bp
tile around window
Tile lower with grantie sils
NatalieChantal
11 years agoMercymygft
11 years agoSee.. I think this looks like a kitchen in some institution.
Here is a link that might be useful:
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11 years agoWe agonized over the same decision, but we are VERY glad we went with tile all the way around the window. I think it looks much more finished and appealing. This can't compete with most of the kitchens Boxerpups posted, but here's another pic for you anyway (if nothing else, mine gives an example of the tile next to stained cabs)...
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11 years agoYour pic was my inspiration for this idea holligator. Thank you. I fell in love with yours too! Yours does not have a lot of space between the casing and the cabs either. And I think it looks great!
Boxer's 11th pic down is what the GC is talking about. I'm not liking the look of tile and paint around the window. There is no paint anywhere else on that wall at all. I tried to take a better pic this am before the sun streams in.
Funny annettacm and dianalo! I like mercy's pic too. Well, except for the rug.
Thanks for that ammo pence. i wasn't thinking about damaging the cabs, great point.
Thanks enduring. I'm going to start out this morning by telling what a great install job he did with the tile so far. It does look like home.
I'm going to do just that flwrs_n_co. And I do like it. Even better than I did yesterday. IMO ANY trim work is a PITA to paint!
Tile it is breezy. I can't wait to see your space! Although I think if I mention Eurosplash he will give me that look. You know the look which clearly indicates I am nuts. Perhaps we should keep that thought between us :)
BTW marcolo, my great grandma's kitchen didn't have room to be institutional. I was a very tiny bowling alley shaped cooking challenge. But cook she did :)I'm going to take WhiteRiverSooner's cue today - just not wine. My sister and some girlfriends are coming over and there will be frozen Margarita's and frivolity :)
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11 years ago@celtinNE, here are some photos of ours.
The first is entitled "How Not To Cut Tiles," and you can see a very, very crappy sliver at the edge of the window sill (and another running immediately below the window moulding horizontally, though this one doesn't bother me). This particular sliver was unavoidable because we were wrapping two corners and had the challenge of a wall that sloped both top to bottom and side to side (yay old houses...)---if it looks like the slivers get smaller going up the wall, it's because they do! So it worked out that to compensate and still keep the tiles looking "normal" throughout most of the backsplash, someplace in the kitchen was going to get a weird crazy sliver. We chose this spot as the least conspicuous. We were able to avoid them in the other spots by creatively wrapping corners---basically, cutting tile such that it didn't always split exactly evenly (a 6" tile might be split with 5" and 2" pieces wrapping the corner, instead of the 5"/1" pieces that math would call for). Our ground rules were no more than an inch difference if we fudged the numbers, no slivers or cuts of less than 1.5" except for this one, and tile edges that always lined up whole-half in a classic brick pattern so your eye wouldn't spot the difference. The second photo is the broader view of that corner.
Even with a truly awful sliver/tile cut like this one, it's less noticeable in the bigger picture, and the reality is that this corner is virtually always filled with drying dishes or bottles or such, so you don't see the spot most of the time.
In contrast, your tile cuts are what I'd call ideal cuts---almost half a tile, and the cut edges are up against window or cabinet so you won't see any imperfections from cutting them. (This was a big problem with ours, partly b/c we were using a tile cutter from the library so no clean cuts like a pro would likely get.)
So---keep them! They look great! :) Incidentally, we also contemplated going all the way up our windows---didn't in our case because we ran the same height splash all the way around the room, and one side of our window is all moulding so it looked a little wonky (the side you can't see has about two feet between window moulding and the wall), but I love the look in general.
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