Kitchen finishing - subway and accent tiles? Range hood shelving?
Fiancee and I are near the finish line of a new build, and figuring out tile for the kitchen. We want to do an accent behind the cooktop, so we found this nice 6"x6" tile, picked a pencil tile to go with it, and are planning on this green subway tile.
Photos of the kitchen as it stands today, and a rendering showing the range hood, are below
It's a 36" cooktop, with 44 5/16" wide range hood. The base cabinets to the side of the cooktop are 24".
As you can see, we chose to leave out upper cabinets next to the range hood, and originally weren't planning to do any floating shelves or anything at all. Our builder has suggested doing shelving, to give the tile a place to terminate, but I'm not sure we're on board with that idea.
To the right of the cooktop, we're planning on terminating the tile at the edge of the counter, leaving a few inches of drywall between the tile and pantry door trim.
The subway tile does have a bullnose version, so we're thinking of having the bullnose running vertically on the left and right sides (so, by the wall oven end, and the door-side end), then along the top edge, inline with the bottom of the range hood.
If we did shelves, they'd be pretty short, which we think might look strange. Also not sure if we were to do them, would we just do a single shelf on each side inline with the range hood, or do the more typical 2 shelves on each side, one below the hood, one above.
We also considered running the subway tile all the way up the wall, but not sure if that would be too much with the green tile?
The range hood should be getting installed this week, feel like I need to see that in before making a final decision, but just looking to make sure we're considering all options.
Would love to hear any thoughts/suggestions/ideas for this!
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Comments (136)Thank you all again for the compliments, it's been a long time and I wanted to reply to a couple of questions. go_figure, the dimensions of the oven/pantry cabinetry is 16 feet. The range cabinetry is 10 feet. The island is slightly over 7' long by 3' wide. Regarding the red espresso machine, we LOVED that machine and tried to make sure we matched some red items with it. Sadly it died about 18 months ago. We replaced it with a bland silver espresso machine which actually produces much better coffee. We still can't get ourselves to throw away the broken red machine so it sits in our basement knowing it will never get fixed... Thanks again all, and best wishes on all of your remodels!...See MoreHelp me design my tiled-in range hood! (lotsa pix)
Comments (17)I'm too out of it to follow all the suggestions and still keep the question in my head, so please forgive if I'm duplicating or contradicting. Peanut, I definitely think the scale of what you drew is better than the old hood, which really is a bit dainty for the surroundings, but I'm not sure about the exact shape you drew--though it should be easy to work with, which is a plus. It works so well in the white kitchen with the shelf because the color all blends. I think the first version with the yellow and brown works better on that basis than the one with the white and stainless. In my opinion, if you want the white and stainless you need a more tapered hood to show a little of the wall behind, making it join up, visually, with the range, instead of just protruding from the cabinets. Additionally, I think that using the accent tiles on the hood will detract from the tiles over the range. I actually think what you've drawn would look pretty great, though I'd like to see some detailing in the trim band. I personally think tiled hoods look best with brick shaped tiles (e.g., subways) rather than squares. Squares feel heavier. But I think it would be better if you pulled the golden yellow out of the accent tile for the hood tiles. I like the copper for the edge. It ties in well with the cabinets, and, of course, the counters. And it's free for the price of your labor. What I think would look really good, however, is if you used a shape that echoes your crown molding. It could be your actual crown, or wood moldings with a tile inset, or all copper, or a tile molding, or whatever. If you want to get really fancy, you can incise the copper for the trim using your accent tile for a pattern (breaking up the shape a little to make it more horizontal), and enamel it. Or just paint it. Or hammer on some zink or stainless. Or just anneal it inside the lines, if you think you can control it well enough. I think the old hood did compete a little with the range, but because the tiled hood follows from the tiled backsplash, etc., I'm pretty sure it'll help draw the eye to the range, rather than dominating it. Tiling up to the insert sounds great...but it would be even better if you could tile behind it. (I don't know how permanently installed it currently is. You can use broken or cut tiles behind it to space it out, and just overlap the actual backsplash tiles a tiny bit. This gives you a much cleaner edge and makes it much easier to get the works out if you need to. I've seen some amazing tiled hoods, but most of them are too ornate for your space. The kind of simple, clean ones you've shown in your examples are much better!...See MoreHerringbone subway tile accent above rangetop
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Comments (32)It does really help to see the whole kitchen. I am also one of those that does not care for the smaller tiles - no matter what pattern. It's just a personal preference. I don't think it matters so me that the entire kitchen is white (I happen to love white kitchens), I just find those small busy patterns to be distracting rather than appealing. I dunno why...it's just me. I think subway tile is wonderful, honed marble is stunning, tumbled too. I also love solid glass backsplashes. But I know my tastes are more muted than many, so I am trying to take that into account when I see posts like this. :-) And to be perfectly honest, since I have been visiting this forum (less than a year) I have noticed that my tastes are expanding a bit. That said, it is SO helpful to see the entire kitchen. I can understand the desire to have more visual interest given the wider all-white pic. But that island print - yeah no. LOL....See MoreRelated Professionals
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Thanks for the feedback on the shelving! I love the LOOK of open shelving next to range hoods, but we were planning to avoid them because of the mess. Our current house has glass door uppers on each side of our microwave hood vent, and that glass gets very nasty, very quickly, which is why we had been planning to completely skip anything up there.
This is the countertop we're doing, Calacatta Viraldi, which has some greens. Wall color is Sherwin Williams Opaline which is a blue-green. We like our color choices! MSI's website has an example of that countertop with a navy island and I think it looks great.
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blue and green work well often times...many situations. HOWEVER the tile is almost olive green.......not quite right. heres what I would do...take the pattern tile up to the bottom of the hood or a few inches up where that hood trim is. Find the correct hue in paint which corresponds to the bit of green in the tile.....it would be closer to a minty or think jewel tone green....in a pretty sheen........this will work with island and I think it would be nice if you want the blue/green palette...... and its a small gesture ....... get that paint shade right and paint above the pattern tile on the wall all the way over around pantry door. I think if the island will have seated people the pattern tile is much nicer than solid because I dont find appliances and pantry doors interesting...you want alternate focus . Make sure you have island pendants or maybe wall sconces left and right of hood........again....avoid the appliance heavy visuals by inserting these things in this line of sight where you will be seated.......the pattern tile is nice..use it. On the right wall it would work for a splash too....
your pattern tile isnt nearly this bold so i think the way they used this can be your option too. Very nice w the blue cabinetry to anchor the look.
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