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Designed Q and A: Should your floor tile be repeated on the kitchen backpslash?
in Kitchen, Products, Q&A, Reader Advice, Remodeling
That was more or less the question I received recently about this kitchen.
This homeowner had some of the cool patterned tile that had been used on the floor, left over, and wanted to know if she should use some of it on the backsplash since the wall behind the cooktop was so plain.
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DESIGNED Q and A - More Kitchen Backsplash Drama! x 2
These kitchen backsplash dilemmas are just getting too good not to share. I do not make these up…..I swear!
I received these two uploads this week on one of my old blogposts about kitchen backsplashes. Just when I think I’ve seen it all…..there’s another tiny deviation of where to end a kitchen backsplash or how to detail it.
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Before pic of one of my projects
Those pesky little kitchen windows and how to make them look bigger
in Designing, Kitchen, Reader Advice, Q&A
I guess you could say this was a backsplash question. That is how it was uploaded into the comment section of one of my posts on backsplashes.
I mean, yes, there is a question about where to end the backsplash, but really, there’s a bigger design situation here, in my opinion. There’s the situation where the top of the cabinets and the top of the kitchen window line up and everything is all in a little row, below the ceiling.
I typically try to remedy this situation whenever I can. Here’s the reason why.
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Image via: Rip and Tan, Jenny Kayne, Designer: Erin Fetherston
The 2" High Slab Backsplash Could Be Your Perfect Kitchen Design Solution
You know those typical 4” high granite backsplashes that many kitchens with a granite countertop have? The ones you automatically get when you order a countertop at Home Depot or Lowe’s or your local granite fabricator?
You know the one that I have BEGGED you NOT to leave on when you go back in later to install a tile backsplash after the fact????
Well, I found an example of an idea I’ve been trying to sell some of my clients who have had a hard time believing this is a thing. Take a look.
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