Looking for creative ideas for kitchen backsplash designs to help with your kitchen remodeling plans?If you followed the crowd, you'd stick up a glass backsplash panel, or some decorative ceramic wall tiles. If you're a little more avant guard, you might pick something like a ready-made stainless steel tile backsplash. Any of these could be fitted easily, and provide the wall protection you want from cooking or washing up spills and splashes. Easy to clean too... But original? Hardly! Creative? Not much, and certainly nothing unique.
Here are 3 stylish, but practical approaches to kitchen backsplash designs which you can use to transform your kitchen quickly and easily, and reflect your own unique personality.
1. Stone Tiles from Solistone
Eliminate the drudgery of grouting with Solistone's Cubist Collection. Each of these 12" x 12" tiles is made from a mesh of natural stone cubes, and can create a fascinating high relief 3-D texture on your kitchen walls. They come in a 6-color range of natural stones. I like the warmth of the Dufy! (They are named after artists...)
Wealth Warning! Very contemporary design, but will dig deep from your wallet at around $20 square foot.
2. Create Your Own Custom Backsplash Tile Mosaic
This is so easy! Visit your local tile specialist shop, or home decor store (Home Depot, Lowes, etc).
Collect a variety of tiles with colors and textures that most appeal to you, and will be in keeping with your kitchen style. Size and shape don't matter - you'll see why in a moment.
Break up the tiles into random pieces
The wall will be your canvas, but start with a countertop or table as your sketch pad. Select the most interesting shapes, and lay them out on the flat surface. That way you can develop your custom design before commiting it to the wall. Your layout can be as random as you like, or you could adopt a pattern if you prefer.
Quick Design Tip: look for a needlepoint design you like, and model your mosaic on that.
Now, glue the chosen pieces to the wall in the layout you've created.
Finish off with grouting to create a waterproof, sealed surface.
3. Create a Unique Kitchen Backsplash with Hand Painted Tiles.
This could take some serious shopping to find a selection of hand painted tiles for your project...
But it will be worth it when you find the perfect match to your style and preferences. In the right light, hand painted tiles will contribute a rich lustre to your color palette, and you can be sure that no one else will have an arrangement of them anything near being the same as yours.
Which ever method you adopt, the result will be stylish kitchen backsplash designs, reflecting your own personality, and completely unique.
Have fun!
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