How to Get a Designer Kitchen Backsplash

A backsplash will really give your kitchen a beautiful custom look. Here's how to design your backsplash.

Things You'll Need

• Kitchen
• Credit Card
• Cash

Instructions

1. The very first thing you will have to decide is what look you would like to achieve. If you have a modern kitchen, country kitchen, traditional kitchen, euro kitchen or any other type of style, it must be considered first.

2. The next step is to think about the colors you would like to bring into your kitchen. Most kitchens are in the neutral color family and could really use a little color to jazz it up. The backsplash is the perfect place to do it.

3. Glass mosaic tiles are becoming more popular now than ever with new kitchens. Glass mosaic tiles come in square and subway but that doesn't mean you have to confirm to those shapes. It is possible to cut glass tiles with a tile cutter and make any design you like.

   Glass mosaic tiles look wonderful in modern kitchens, traditional kitchens and euro kitchens and the colors are limitless!

4. Homeowners looking to design their kitchen with a Tuscan theme will enjoy stone tiles or ceramic tiles that look like stone. Many people choose to paint these tiles but you if you are not very artistic you may buy a backsplash that is pre-painted.

5. Stainless steel backsplashes are really making a comeback with kitchen designers these days. A stainless steel backsplash is one of the easiest backsplash to keep clean.

   Stainless steel backsplashes can be installed as a sheet or tiles and come in several patterns and textures. The more interesting the texture or pattern, the more expensive the stainless steel backsplash will be.

6. A quartz backsplash is stylish and easy to keep clean. This look goes with almost any type of kitchen and comes in a variety of colors that will should suit almost any kitchen design.

   Quartz is nonporous, stain resistant, heat resistant and scratch resistant so if you are looking for a really sturdy stone, this alternative to granite or marble may be just what you are looking for.

   Quartz is sold as engineered stone and is 93% quartz and can be found almost anywhere granite and marble are sold. It can also be found at Home Depot, Lowes and other large home repair retailers.

   Engineered stone is very heavy so this project should be left to the professionals and do not try to do this yourself.

7. Look at home magazines to get ideas of what other kitchens are doing. When you go shopping for your backsplash, bring pictures of what you like so the sales person is on the same page with you and knows exactly what you are looking for.

Resources

• How to Use Skylights and Sun Tunnels in Your Kitchen Floor Plans
• Designer Kitchen Photos
• Benefits of Quartz Countertops
• Design a Green Kitchen