Week of Kitchen Renovations: Backsplash
For the second day of kitchen updates, I’ll be featuring our backsplash. This is another project that Hubby and I did on our own. Because of some random obstacles with our kitchen, we needed a unique backsplash. I would love to have a glass mosaic tile backsplash, but maybe in our next kitchen.
As I mentioned, we had some obstacles… We didn’t want to gut the kitchen to the studs, so the walls stayed in tact (as much as possible) throughout the renovation. Because of this, we knew we’d have subway tiling behind the backsplash. The old kitchen had a piece of laminate attached to the subway tiling with liquid nails. We didn’t want to try to remove the liquid nail residue from the subway tiling, so we needed to find something else that could be attached to the tiling easily.
I came across a display for these faux tin tiles at Home Depot one day and we decided it would be a good solution to our problem. We agreed on a color and bought some of the tiles. They all had to be cut to size, so we first made templates out of posterboard. The templates were cut to size and then used to cut the actual backsplash pieces.
We purchased the double sided tape that is sold with the tiles to used to attach them. Lastly, Hubby went around with some silicone sealant to seal the seam between the granite and the backsplash.
Installation was very easy (once everything was cut) and we love the look. We also purchased the outlet covers, but I haven’t gotten around to covering them yet…
Check out my Week of Kitchen Renovations here.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I love the tiles behind the stove. Are those tin? It’s all beautiful. I’m totally jealous, and can’t wait to start projects of our own.
Jaime – It’s actually faux tin. There’s a whole post about it coming up tomorrow!
Looks beautiful; I love those counter tops! Can’t wait to see the rest of it.
We have the exact same set up with the stove, near the radiator which is under a window. I sent my husband a link. We want to gut our kitchen and start over someday
Gorgeous! So creative and functional. LOVE it! 🙂
Love what I see so far! The cabinets are beautiful and any extra counter space-even lower-is a bonus!
~Nancy
Love what I see so far! The cabinets are beautiful and any extra counter space-even lower-is a bonus!
~Nancy
Looks awesome!!!
We redid our kitchen this summer as well and I love how it turned out! It’s so much more fun cooking in there now 🙂 Yours came out great!! I love the idea of moving things around to get more light and counter space 🙂
We’re thinking of possible implementing something similar for a radiator under our kitchen counter. One question. How have the cabinets handled the heat and humidity from the radiator over time?
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I have the faucet that I got from Home Depot. If you still have the part number and manufacture of this product could you please send it to me. Little note if you have a leak above the nozzle take the nozzle off a replace the wiring
Thanks
Carsten