Help with Cloe Edging
Hi! I’ve decided on Cloe for my backsplash, but have a hard time making a choice for the edge and I have to let my contracter know soon. Should I do the matching edging (it will cost about $1000 more), or go with white schluter? There is a lot of exposed edging in my kitchen and the new backsplash will have the same footprint as the old.
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last yearMegan S.
last yearHere is a full kitchen view, does this change your answer at all? It will go along the far side by the oven. The mixer corner is to the left of this picture, and the coffee bar is behind me in the dining room.
cupofkindnessgw
last yearlast modified: last yearDo you plan to have a standard 18" backsplash? It seems to be closer to 21" or 24" as currently tiled.
Yes tile all the way up to the hood behind the stove. Are you planning to tile the entire wall with the Chloe? If so, go all the way up and tile around the window too.
Check out the kitchen of @itsourcasa - it's gorgeous! I believe her backspalsh tile is pure white. It's available at Floor and Decor. Her kitchen is stunning... one of my favorites.
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rebunky
last yearlast modified: last yearI agree with RedRyder.
Add up the $1,000 you save by using the schulter edge, plus add in the $ saved by skipping the tile on the bar’s two side walls and the one side wall by the white mixer.
Now put all that $ towards tiling the range wall up the ceiling. Hey, I can rationalize anything!
On the sink wall, I would just tile up to bottom of the upper cabinets. If you lower the bottom shelf down in line with the bottom of the upper cabinet, then the tile stopping underneath the shelf will look more intentional.
Something like this… the window size if off, but hopefully you get the idea.
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last yearThank you everyone for the suggestions! I like the idea of going to the bottom of the hood, but then my next question is if it is weird to go up higher than these windows? Right now it stops at the windows. If it went up to the height of the hood, it would stop about the same place that the bottom shelf starts. I'm replacing the shelves with floating shelves so the brackets aren't a concern to me.
Another fun hiccup, for some reason my cabinets are cut to go around the tile. If I tile up higher, I'm afraid this little cut out will look weird. If I keep tile height as is, it will just nestle in that little cut out, but if I go higher I'm afraid it will stand out and look weird.
And some FINAL fun- my house is over 100 years old and most of the walls are plaster. The plan for the edge walls is repair behind the tile with drywall (?) to have a flat space to apply new tile, but it is another whole complication to repair the plaster to have it look acceptable where the tile currently is.
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