Opinions on backsplash

[pantsparty]

We are installing a white backsplash tile in our kitchen. Here is the tile: www.glasstilestore.com/tao-super-white-glass-tile.html

Here's our kitchen:



Where I am uncertain is in adding the backsplash on the sides of the wall. The granite extends out on the edges, but I don't know if it will look weird? Especially with the wall next to the pantry, if we have tile going to the edge of the granite, there's just going to be a strip of wall next to the doorframe. That will look stupid, right?

[Deleted]

Yes, extend it.

[MWOS]

[pantsparty]

Oct 4, 2013 10:31:25 GMT -5 MWOS said:

BUT the counter goes right up to the doorframe! Mine doesn't!

[MWOS]

you would just end it where the granite ends

granite, I don't even HAVE a house, but that's what I would do

[Deleted]

Wait- to clarify - I thought were asking if you should do the sides at all.

I don't think it's a huge deal if it doesn't touch the door frame. You are over thinking it.

[pantsparty]

This listing has pictures of a kitchen where the backsplash doesn't extend. I think it looks a little cleaner. www.glasstilestore.com/tuscany-pattern-super-white-glass-tile-tuscanysuperwhite.html

[Deleted]

I have no idea, but your kitchen is beautiful. And I would kill for a pantry that size.

[MWOS]

right, but you have that granite edge that goes all the way around onto the sides, so in my mind the tile should go where you have the granite. it would be weird to have the tile stop at the corner and the granite continue

[milosh]

I vote to extend it. Although I think it will look fine either way. Extending it may look more 'finished' if you kwim?

[sa]

I prefer it just on the back, not on the sides.

[pantsparty]

Oct 4, 2013 10:38:41 GMT -5 @kizmet said:

Oct 4, 2013 10:37:30 GMT -5 pagas said:

Are you leaving the granite pieces on the wall?

Good question. If it was my house is remove the short granite pieces.

Hmmm. I hadn't even thought about doing this. I have no idea how difficult of a process this might be, what the drywall looks like underneath, etc.

[Cricket0619]

I vote to not extend it.

[pantsparty]

Oct 4, 2013 10:42:08 GMT -5 pagas said:

If you just do the back wall, which I think would look best, I would pull out those granite pieces on the wall.  I think it will look more streamlined and not as choppy.  The granite half up the wall looks more like a bathroom, less like a kitchen.

Along the entire length? This is a good idea. I think I would prefer that look more overall.

[Deleted]

I think it looks weird on the side wall. I would just put it on the back and leave the side walls as is.

Love the tile color though, that will look so sharp in your kitchen!

[AmeliaBedelia]

I would not extend it. Keep it just on that back wall.

[motzie]

Wherever you have the existing marble (granite?) backsplash, I would put the tile over it as well. Cap the ends with a trim piece like someone else showed above. It's going to look really nice.

I'm struggling to pick a backsplash tile right now myself.

[HiC]

Ours isn't extended, but we don't have the short backsplash piece that you have.

[orval]

My kitchen has a similar issue. Our tile guy stopped the tile at the counter. There is about 2 inches between the tile and the door frame. It looks fine. I think if it went all the way to the door it would look really weird.

[sharknado]

Oct 4, 2013 10:33:54 GMT -5 MWOS said:

you would just end it where the granite ends

granite, I don't even HAVE a house, but that's what I would do

I see what you did there

[pantsparty]

Okay, I've emailed the woman who's going to install our backsplash. H is concerned what the drywall will look like on the sides if we remove the granite - and, of course, the additional cost. It will probably triple, and we may put it off for a few months. But now that I know how I want it to look, I'm going to be unhappy with it any other way. FWP, I guess.

[bittybomb]

I would put a thicker molding around the door. LOVE your kitchen, btw.

[themoneytree]

I would remove the 3" granite splash and use the tile as the whole backsplash. I would also extend the tile to even with the edge of the granite either with matching bullnose if that tile collection has it, or by using Schluter edging.

I'm not a huge fan of Schluter but our tile didn't have a bullnose piece so we used it and it fades in, you really don't notice it.

ETA: we used that Tao tile in toffee in our last kitchen reno. Loved it!