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 those spice jars! And the storage for it. I wonder if we could do something like that in our kitchen….
Before I read the sprinkles comment, I was uber eager to find out what spices you were rocking over the sink! Great idea 🙂
Love the idea! What a great use of the space. Thank you for sharing.
your spices were the first thing I noticed when you started showing pics. I love it! I sort mine in alphabetical order, so it’s a little easier for me to find them.
I wanted to alphabetize, but Hubby isn’t the most organized person so I’m not sure how long they would stay organized since he does most of the cooking in the house.
What a great idea! Yesterday when I was looking at the pictures I thought it was tile. (thats the blonde in me) =)
I love it! That is such a neat idea.
I LOVE it! I’m intending to “revamp” my kitchen this spring and add a back splash but wasn’t certain what other changes I might want to add. I’m going to show this to my honey and keep this in mind. Thanks!
Oh, and Happy New Year!
~ingrid
Your renovation posts have me dreaming of updating our kitchen. I absolutely LOVE the backsplash and shelf!
This is a fabulous idea. I love how you color coordinated the different spices across the shelf. It’s very practical and gives your kitchen a very stylish presentation.
Natalie @ gluten a go go
I love that idea! I looks so great with all of the different colors of the spices and sprinkles. And talk about handy, they are so easy to reach!
Love your kitchen posts…the spice & sprinkles jars are what stands out to me..aside from the backsplash. You have such a cutesy kitchen!!!
Oh my! I love love love love it!!! I just sent and IM to my boyfriend that said “I want to do this in our kitchen”…haha.
That is a gorgeous display of spices… I would love to do something like that!
I love that idea! The spices add such good color to your kitchen (and extra space, i would guess!).
Thank you ahead of time for building this in my kitchen when I get my own place.
From all your renovation posts…the spice jars are my favorite. I can’t believe there are 60! I wish I could figure out some place to do that!
I love your spice display! It must be so convenient to have everything right there whenever you need it. AND it looks fabulous in the room!
Spice Rack
I’m amazed on the way you created your own spice rack. It really complements your kitchen design, much more it helps in organizing various spices.