Kitchen Backsplash Tile Part III

Kitchen Backsplashes - The Earrings of the House!

None of these selection complications can be effectively solved in your mind’s eye or from a showroom display! You must take a range of colors, styles and textures to where the backsplash will be created to make a good decision in the light of the environment that the tile will reside!

You will either use (1) decorative tiles which typically are square or rectangular in shape and usually coordinate in size with the field tile or (2) decorative liners (strips of tile 1/2x6 to 4x12) which frees you from having to worry about the size of the field tile. Other options include stone tiles which often are used by themselves or range in design (octagons, trapezoids or rectangles) rather than by color.

Decorative tiles or even decorative liners can have a lot of color and character but still be neutral! If you use one color you then have a blue, green ,etc. statement on your backsplash. If, on the other hand, the decorative tile or listelli range in color, your backsplash will not be color specific and the range of colors can be utilized as other accent colors are introduced to the kitchen environment. You can have your “cake and eat it too” by having a range of colors with will give a design statement and some excitement on your backsplash and still remain neutral and not compromise or limit you ability to decorate your kitchen!