Kichen Tile Ideas

One thing has to be kept in mind, that while deciding on kitchen backsplash ideas, the design should merge well with the adjacent kitchen countertop. Kitchen backsplash tile designs should also have some kind of coordination with the rest of the kitchen design. So go ahead with designing a tile backsplash, and make your kitchen look all that greater.

Kitchen Tile Backsplash Patterns

Hand painted tile backsplash is an excellent way of designing a tile backsplash. You will get so many choices for this in terms of themes. You can repeat a certain pattern that you like to create or you can put up one single decorated tile right at the center of the backsplash wall. It can be described as a beautiful kitchen tile backsplash tile art.

There are a wide variety of textures of tiles that are available in the market. You can combine all these textures for designing a tile backsplash. For instance, if you use glass and ceramic tiles together, it will give a completely unique look to the kitchen. This type of arrangements helps to highlight all the different surfaces of the kitchen.

If you do not want to confine yourself with just one or two varieties, then make a large collection of all such tiles that will suit your kitchen. Gather as many colors, shapes, textures of those tiles that catches your eyes. Fragment them into some interesting shapes and sizes. Now use your creative ideas make a specific pattern with them on a plain surface and attach them to the wall one by one accordingly. Or else, you can also put them in a random order. In this way you can get an exclusive custom-made design for your kitchen backsplash.

As we have to spend a long time inside a kitchen for cooking and other household chores, it is essential that we maintain the look of our kitchen. If your kitchen has a shabby look, I am sure you would not like to stay there for long. The backsplash area is a very small one. Therefore, you get a lot of scope to experiment with several kitchen backsplash tile designs with a relatively small investment. Designing a tile backsplash will also provide protection to the underlying wall which is otherwise exposed to so much of splash during the daily cooking.

Backsplash tiles are the most preferred ones because of the simple reason that they have a wide range of variety. It has so many varieties of shades, texture, style and color. There are other reasons as well, like they can be installed very easily.

Checkerboard design is one of the most common forms of kitchen backsplash tile designs. For this, you need a plexiglass which has to be fixed on the backsplash region with metal fasteners. Then take two different shades of stick-on holographic tiles and attach them on the plexiglass in alternate sequence. Make sure that one shade of the tile is dark and the other one is light in order to obtain the checkerboard look.

You can give a contemporary look to the kitchen decor by designing backsplash with a combination of glass tiles and marbles. Use your creative ideas to think of the kind of pattern that you would like to see on your backsplash. First of all, thinset has to be applied on the backsplash wall, and after a few minutes stick the glass tiles on the wall after putting glue on the rear side of each of them. In the same manner, marbles need to be fixed according to the design. Wait for a day before you put the grout on the tiles.

You can also install vinyl kitchen backsplash tiles that are of the peel and stick variety, on the kitchen backsplash. They are easy to install and give a simple and serene look to the kitchen. Create a template and install the vinyl tiles as per that design. Mosaic tiles are another option that can give your backsplash an attractive appearance.