backsplash design/colour help, please?
I'm trying to figure out a backsplash. My countertop will be Caesarstone 9140 Charcoal/zulu:
This is about the colour:
This picture shows a little better what it looks like up close- some of the pieces are clear, so there's a little bit of depth to the colour:
This is a picture of it in use so you can see the scale:
The cabinets will be covered with this formica, which I think looks a little different than this in real life- it's not gray at all, it's a light, warm colour with a hint of pink. It matches the blobs in the counter pretty well:
This is our kitchen. Mostly- there will be a decorative open shelf in the corner on the right side of the window instead of at the end of the uppers on the right side and all of the cabinets will be solid.:
I love sparkle, but we couldn't afford granite or even the sparkly quartz, so I'm trying to put sparkle in elsewhere. I bought crystal (well, probably acrylic at 2 dollars a piece) knobs and brushed nickel drawer pulls. I will have two pendant lights over the peninsula, which look something like this:
This is the shape (they're each a single):
with this design:
side note: will these look ridiculous in my kitchen? I looked at the kitchen things, but kept coming back to the sparkly, fancy things. I thought this would be a good compromise, since the shape is simple and kitchen-like.
I've fallen in love with iridescent and sparkly glass mosaic tiles and I was thinking of using some as an accent. I'd love something with a little bit of lightness- with blues or lavenders, but I'm not sure how well it would go.
I'm also trying to figure out how to lay them out as well. Money is very tight and we're already over budget with some pipe issues. I had wanted to do a base of square tiles, an accent strip and then the tiles above laid on the diagonal, but turning the tiles diagonally is too expensive. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to have the accent strip look like it belongs, without turning tiles on the diagonal.
I've seen a few possibilities, but I'm having a hard time imagining what a whole kitchen would look like based on small sample piece. One thought was to use square tiles on the bottom, a few rows of accent tiles and then subways above. Or put the square tiles offset above to make it work.
I'm also not sure about colours- I was going to do a very basic cream/tan stone as the base because those can be had really cheap here (about 10 dollars per square metre) I don't love the mosaic mixes that are very high contrast, although I find the black/dark purple iridescent mixes are beautiful. (although probably too dark for my kitchen and field tile) Any ideas?
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