Kitchen Backsplash Options

The backsplash can be the ‘WOW’ factor in your kitchen and let your personality shine with all the available options. Kitchen backsplashes can be colorful, monochromatic, tile, tin, stone or a variety of other textures. Here are some of the most popular kitchen backsplash options for you to consider when updating your kitchen.

Tile

Tile is a durable, easy-to-clean and versatile backsplash option for the kitchen. Mosaic tile, subway tile, glass, ceramic, terra-cotta, hand-painted and tile choices go on and on. Tile sheets make installation quick and easy and the prices for tile backsplash run the gamut and provide great options in every price range.

Back-painted Glass

Glass tiles in various sizes that are painted on the back to give color and sparkle to a kitchen backsplash. Durable and easy-to-clean, back-painted glass is an affordable option for creating a unique kitchen backsplash.

Countertop Extension

Many homeowners are choosing to use the same material for the backsplash as they use for the countertop to give the kitchen a monochromatic, unified look. For this backsplash option, the countertop material (granite, marble, wood, etc.) is simply extended up the wall as high as desired when the countertop is installed.

Wall Paint

One of the most affordable and easy to change backsplash options available; wall paint. Choose a high-gloss latex paint that is easy to clean and resists staining. Applying the paint to the backsplash area is an easy DIY project that can be changed as desired to update the look of the kitchen.

Tin Squares

If you want a vintage look in your kitchen, tin squares can provide that look. In their natural color of silver or painted to match your kitchen decor, decorative tin squares provide durable function and beauty to any kitchen. Tin squares are easy to cut to size and install as a backsplash and they can also be used in other parts of the kitchen to create a cohesive look.

Wood

Wood beadboard, which can be purchased already primed and painted, is a smart, inexpensive and decorative backsplash option for a kitchen update. Beadboard can be purchased and cut to size at any home improvement center.

Combination Material

The kitchen backsplash doesn’t have to be all one type of material. A little wall paint here, a lot of ceramic tile there and a pop of sparkling back-painted glass over there and you can design a kitchen that is functional, unique and beautiful.