This backsplash is from Walker Zanger collection: Waterfall and is the Earth River Pattern. It is natural stone and does require the stone to be sealed. The material used at this backsplash made sense for a kitchen not used heavily. For a family home with a very active kitchen I am not so sure I would use a stone product that needs sealing every few years or so. Not that you asked but, just to thoroughly qualify my specification to you and why this material was used aside from the fact that it is really beautiful!

All stone is different and runs in lots so, you might want to cherry pick your stone material if you can and if not just remember that all stone has variations and colors that may be somewhat different from a showroom sample. This backsplash in the photo also, received a treatment of "STONE ENHANCER" coating as well as the sealing. Stone enhancer is meant to bring out the color more strongly in natural stone and in this case it worked very nicely.

Good luck and thank you for your great question.

Naomi Siegler