It would look more correct if mirrored; preferably right near the small dark square but not including it at the angle.

Thanks, but not sure what you mean by "not including it at the angle"

Remove that partial sheet right away before the thing sets up if you can. Not right. Were you short on material? The sheet on the left should start with remaining pattern so it looks like it bent into corner. Can’t leave this. Hope your tile person fixes this.

Not correctly laid. The pattern should continue around the corner.

Either way could work, you need to factor the other end as well in the layout. But as it is, they are not aligned correctly in the corner.

I like them best when it looks like the tile bent around the corner and this needs to fixed before moving forward

The left side must be pulled; the "dots" aren't level with the right. If I can spot that on an interwebby picture, it's worse in real life.

Backsplash tile should be laid on a continuous shim placed on the deck and the same thickness as the grout lines. The tile are grouted, the shim is pulled, and the void filled with a color matched silicone. Tile laid directly on the deck will not have enough space to be filled with the silicone required at the plane change and will always be topical only.

You hired a $200 “tile guy”. You got $200 “tile guy” work.

Hire an actual licensed and insured Tile Technician. He won’t be $200. Add another 0.

Wow Sophie, that is harsh! Unfortunately the contractor who did our entire kitchen did this and we definitely paid him more than $200. It was my mistake for believing him when he said he could do the backsplash. If you don’t have anything constructive to add then you should move on to the next post.

Keely - sometimes a technician can do a tile job in a simple backsplash of say plain subway, but when you work with a more complicated design like this one, it is a bit more tricky. So not knocking your tile person, just saying he/she might be in over their head with this type product. But it isn't hard to fix. Might require purchasing one more sheet of material but easy to fix, IF you didn't let him continue. Stop and regroup and this can look really nice. btw-grout. Make the grout match the white in the tile or it will be really busier than you will want.

Also...I bet you already know this.....make sure to seal natural tile. You will need to do this about every 3 years. Unless some sort of factory seal has been applied. Hope you enjoy your new kitchen!

Thanks for the encouragement, Flo. Yes I do think he would have been fine with a simple tile. Unfortunately he put up a lot more of the tile that will now have to pulled down. We have someone else coming to look at completing the job since I have no confidence in our contractor.

all he had to do was cut the top row a bit less to line up the tiles and cut them vertically to match. (of course, you shouldn't have those tiny slivers in the corner to begin with) I just shake my head when I see stuff like this. This is what Sophie meant by her comment. just because someone can lay tile doesn't mean they can do it correctly. He couldn't see these were off? or he didn't care? He didn't care because he isn't a tile expert who takes pride in their work.

I'm glad you're getting it rectified. I hope you didn't pay the guy for this work.

Oh boy....I feel for you Keely.

One wall (the right) is already complete, so we will to work with the tiles already heading into the corner. The tiles on the connecting wall will be taken down and reinstalled. Anyone know if marble tiles can be reused that already have quickset on the back?

it's thinset, and if it hasn't completely hardened, you can try to scrape it off. If you can't remove it, you can't use it because it will stick out further than the others. You may be able to try and grind it off the back, (with a dremmel or a larger type of grinding tool) but I don't know how painstaking that would be.

the one wall actually looks pretty good. when doing the center wall, make sure they don't end up with very small cuts at the ends. ideally you want symmetrical left and right pieces in the corners.

Have you considered taking your tile all the way up above window? basically the entire front wall? as for the wall on the left, don't do that one at all and just place 2, shallow solid wood shelves for some plants. or do a spice rack or some other decorative wall idea.

basically this look, but not these particular shelves

these are cool, copper wrapped. easy DIY. or do a simple wood (like pictured in the other photos, below)

if you want something that doesn't protrude as far:

tile it all the way up, forego the left wall