rebunky, good memory! We are downsizing in our full-time city and will be remodeling the kitchen. So, I have been posting a lot of questions! Thanks for the response.

Anyone? No one has smallish tiles? Small herringbone? Small hex? What are your thoughts on grout lines? Too much grout to be easy to clean? That is one of my main worries with this idea. That and thinking it is too busy!

I'd use a darker grout. White/light grout drives me insane!

In our last house we had a small mini brick & we used epoxy grout. I never had a problem cleaning the grout. It was very expensive since we used so much grout, but it was well worth it in my opinion. I will use epoxy grout in our new house also.

scrappy25 here with the minitiles that rebunky posted. No problems with the bright white regular grout so far, one year out. It was sealed along with the tiles at installation. I do keep a folding splatter guard behind my cooktop- it's about 8 inches high and catches most of the splatters. However I have not noticed a difference between the protected areas and the area above the guard. HTH

We'll be doing a small herringbone pattern in our new home, but as it hasn't been installed yet, I'm no help! I had also considered the hex tiles at first, but decided to use them in our master bathroom shower instead!

I have given a little thought to the grout issue and have decided (for better or worse!) not to worry about it! Form over function?!?

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OP--sorry for the small hijack here..... but maven19--beautiful tile! Please post your final as I am also considering this. I can't wait to see it.

mom2sulu--will be happy to share though our house won't be finished for awhile!

YoungHouseLove did a penny tile in their last house. You may look through their posts and/or comment on this one?

ascorsonelli, I had seen that blog post. I wished they still blogged! Thanks, though--got me to look at it again. And, looked at their mini herringbone laundry room splash.

Did you check out dyhgarden's reveal? Here is her tiny dot tile. So cute.

rebunky, that is cute! I have never seen that kitchen.

I have smaller 2x3 arabesque tiles in charcoal with a light grey grout. I have never had any cleaning issues with backsplashes. I do most of my work on an island but still in my old house I had 1in squares and never remember thinking about cleaning the back there was a problem. In my current kitchen I didn't even seal anything.