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Ideal_Rock
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Ugh I've looked at way too much tile lately my brain is overloaded. So my wonderful sweet husband is finishing our kitchen (I HAVE A SINK!!!!!) and he's sticking down the granite tile today for the counters (COUNTERS!!!!) but we can't figure out what to do for the backsplash. It has to be very thin tile- 1/4in thick max. The space is like... 14-16 inches high, so more granite tile would fit very weirdly (12" tile plus a thin band of another tile- just weird.) We've poked around Home Depot a few times but nothing is really catching my eye.
We think the backsplash should be darkish- the counters are Black Galaxy granite, which is black with gold mica flecks. The cabinets and livingroom floor is mahogany. The kitchen floor is little hexagonal very pale sandy/gold porcelain tiles that look like stone. The kitchen walls are a mix of painted cool toned medium grey painted drywall and raw, unpainted antique grey boards- mostly it's the board walls in the kitchen. (It's the inner wall of an old armory- we decided to leave it as is and not paint it, the old boards are getting close to 100 years old and are neat.) We need about 24 square feet of backsplash, so we aren't too worried if it's more expensive than the granite was at $8/sq.ft.
I can't say how impressed I am with what my husband has done to build out our condo, especially the kitchen. He managed to do our granite counters, including buying tools like wetsaw, for $800; And he's never done counters, or any kitchen buildout before. I'm totally amazed with his skills! He only wrecked one tile, and that one was a freehand diagonal cut he had to make
We'd gotten quotes from contractors for $2500 for cruddy laminate, and $6000-$8000 for granite. DH has pretty much created the entire kitchen from NOTHING, and it looks awesome- it's huge and open and it's basically one huge room with the livingroom and diningroom, we knocked out a lot of walls. He had to learn a lot of electrical stuff too (and he didn't even electrocute himself, I'm so proud
).
Anybody got any favorite tile to suggest? I'm up for just about anything other than laminate. More stone, glass tiles, porcelain, whatever. As long as it's thin.
The Rat (one of our kitties) adores the new granite tiles. He spent all day yesterday with his fuzzy little butt planted on them, and discovered he can leap from the island to the other counters, which was very exciting for him- he looks rather like an overgrown flying squirrel performing that maneuver. I think he believes we chose the tile color to flatter HIM, because he looks so pretty on it, of course.
We think the backsplash should be darkish- the counters are Black Galaxy granite, which is black with gold mica flecks. The cabinets and livingroom floor is mahogany. The kitchen floor is little hexagonal very pale sandy/gold porcelain tiles that look like stone. The kitchen walls are a mix of painted cool toned medium grey painted drywall and raw, unpainted antique grey boards- mostly it's the board walls in the kitchen. (It's the inner wall of an old armory- we decided to leave it as is and not paint it, the old boards are getting close to 100 years old and are neat.) We need about 24 square feet of backsplash, so we aren't too worried if it's more expensive than the granite was at $8/sq.ft.
I can't say how impressed I am with what my husband has done to build out our condo, especially the kitchen. He managed to do our granite counters, including buying tools like wetsaw, for $800; And he's never done counters, or any kitchen buildout before. I'm totally amazed with his skills! He only wrecked one tile, and that one was a freehand diagonal cut he had to make
Anybody got any favorite tile to suggest? I'm up for just about anything other than laminate. More stone, glass tiles, porcelain, whatever. As long as it's thin.
The Rat (one of our kitties) adores the new granite tiles. He spent all day yesterday with his fuzzy little butt planted on them, and discovered he can leap from the island to the other counters, which was very exciting for him- he looks rather like an overgrown flying squirrel performing that maneuver. I think he believes we chose the tile color to flatter HIM, because he looks so pretty on it, of course.
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