I would not do any tile on the wall in your first picture. Just paint it the same color as the rest of the walls. It appears that there will be no sink on that wall so no need to have a backsplash to protect the walls from water splashes. The bay window wall, tiled from counter to ceiling will be a focal point.

That is an interesting thought. That is going to be a coffee/smoothie bar sort of area with the Espresso Machine and where we use the Blender for (usually daily) smoothies, so we thought it might be good to backslash that. Plus with the matching shelves our initial thought was it would go along with the sink wall which is supposed to be a focal point. The 3rd wall in the kitchen is the stove wall, which will have backsplash under the Uppers (no interface with crown on that wall). The 4th wall has no cabinets or anything, just 2 doors and the seated side of the island, so that is all paint up to the crown.

Would it look out of place to have the backsplash completely over sink wall, covering all exposed space on Rangetop wall, and then nothing on the bar wall? Trying to conceptualize it as it is intriguing, because we do really love the Pale Oak color we ended up going with

How about posting a picture of the entire kitchen so we can get a sense of the connection of these spaces

@Beth H. :

Thank you these pictures are so helpful!

@jck910

Here is the space, I can’t really capture it in one shot though but hopefully this conveys the idea

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