backsplash replacement: seeking input!
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Desperately seeking backsplash help for light granite counter!
Comments (18)You ALL are totally awesome for helping (sorry if I sound like a teenager!) Great ideas and advice. You all are so right about the paint color--I can see it now. Thanks for taking the time to show me examples! (The existing paint is actually more of a gold- but looks yellow in certain spots and colors). I love those examples of the darker red backsplashes, boxerpups, with cabinets similar in color to mine. Red wouldn't match anything in my house, (I know you weren't suggesting that)but maybe a burgandy or maroon or rust would! Noobee- I can't get over how that darker backsplash you did (in the cut and paste you did over my kitchen photo) makes the cabinets and granite pop and ties it all together. I love it! I think that seems to be heading in the right direction--though perhaps the exact colors and pattern need tweaking. I love the look! Though there isn't any actual brown in the granite, some of the garnet does appear brown-here and there. Do you think I'd need to have gray in the backsplash to tie in with the granite if I went darker, with mixed colors, like that? Also, Noobee, how DID you do that cut and paste-is that a paint program that comes with windows or adobe photoshop by any chance? I'd love to try and play with that myself. I have been visiting a few tile shops, and even the salespeople there have been having a hard time finding the right solution for me. One lady who was working with me is even a trained interior designer. She was thinking darker would work, too, but was having a hard time finding just the right tile. So I really appreciate your suggestions....See MoreNeed input: gap at end of counter before adding backsplash
Comments (10)Hi a2gemini, Holy cow--your first counter actually avalanched on the way to your house?! Egads, that must have been an awful feeling. I'm glad that you had a great job after that! I live in northern Massachusetts. From all of my reading of GW, I should have known better than to go with the stone guys that we ended up with. It was one of the areas of the project where I got too tired of wrangling with other members of the family and took the path of least resistance. (And while I don't normally take that path, at the time, I was too exhausted to argue that we should look for another estimate/opinion on which stone contractor to go with. As my brother says "sometimes my life is just a lesson to others of what *not* to do!") --Lee...See MoreBacksplash time...would love some input!
Comments (27)OB2B, that is amazing!! Thank you so much!! I can really see how much more finished it will look with a backsplash. So motivating!! I haven't considered gray because I felt like we needed some color in the room. Am I wrong? I'm trying to use your pics to visualize the Heath pattern in the crater lake color, and I'm liking that a lot. Although that "soothing" one is really gorgeous too. Very tempting. I also still like the wave glass mosaic. So many good choices!! One of the things I'm trying to do is relate to the pool outside, which you can see from the window and three huge windows to the left of the sink run. That's one of the reasons for the blue. I'm not sure I'm feeling the lure of putting brown in the backsplash, EAM. I feel like it muddies things a bit. Maybe it's the miminalist in me, I like things to be very clean, and so tend to either use color or pattern, but not both. I need to noodle this a bit!...See MoreTile Back-Splash Placement Advice Needed
Comments (1)If I understand correctly, the wall cabinets on the sink wall will be replaced. Give that, I would run the tile to the ceiling, like the range wall...See MoreLE
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