Does this backsplash look off-scale?

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Can I pick your brains please! Feeling slightly gutted that I might have messed up my major kitchen feature.

Kitchen overhaul is a couple of days short of completion but now the beautiful splash is in place it looks teeny and off scale. This is a custom made piece and though adding to the piece is an option (waiting to hear from design company) wouldn't match up. Splash has yet to be fixed, Not sure what other options there are and would welcome suggestions. Also didn't think the bit under hood would look like it hadn't been factored for. Had hob moved, sockets etc to make sure splash would be centre star, and it was the deciding factor when it came to choosing the worktop and floor. Yet I don't feel it has the impact it could.

There is further boxing in of pipes to happen to the left of the splash. Could I get away with matching this with another material as yet unthought of. I don't want a botched job on my hand that looks mismatched and unconsidered.

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sally1360

10 years ago

I think it's a beautiful piece and I would wait until everything is in before making any changes. Once everything is in and you have things on the counter and you've lived with it, it might not still be a problem. Perhaps you can add a glass shelf (not too deep) in the space above the piece and have the artist make another piece of the background color. The shelf would cover the "seam" between the new piece and the large piece. Were you planning to do anything in the backsplash areas?

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annmarie2
10 years ago
I think that's a gorgeous focal piece, and leaves lots of room for adding. Perhaps pick one of the colors (or a pale hue of one of them) and do tile - maybe glass tile. That would provide a cohesive look and still allow that to stand out. I am concerned about the part under the hood...not quite sure how to resolve that piece, but I'm sure you'll get great suggestions from other Houzzers.
cjlemke22
10 years ago
Can you get another custom piece for empty space? I agree with glass, choose a solid color that enhances, I'd also so use a larger glass like a 4x8 possibly larger. Beautiful kitchen!
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qam999
10 years ago
Is that a glazed tile piece? Or some other material?

You are right to be concerned about scale. The cooktop looks tiny and the open space above it (future vent hood or ??) look even tinier. The tininess of these two features may or may not have been avoidable, but such a compressed, stinted area is not the right pace to put an eye-catching feature like your splatter-paint backsplash. That exuberant style needs an ample area over which to spread its generous appeal.

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1) Place piece vertically, cut as needed. Cheapest and easiest but not a great look.

2) Remove 3 cabinets above backsplash, move backsplash halfway up, fill in with neutral tiles all around. Klugey and detracts from backsplash plus loses lots of storage.

3) If splatter look is important, find another way to achieve it. Maybe splatter-wallpaper or even painted drywall, behind glass or glass tiles.
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10 years ago
Not having it all installed yet is giving you that empty feeling! Choose a glossly glass tile in a light color so it won't overshadow your gorgeous backsplash, perhaps the background color of the backsplash. I don't want to sound silly or overdramitic, but choose a tile that when you look into it, it looks deep, like water. That's what's so attractive about a glass backsplash, and your's especially since your focal piece is so exciting! :)))
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10 years ago
Make sure you have the proper undercounter lighting that will highlight your special piece so it is the focal point. Change that out if you uave to. Use the tile you choose to complete the rest of the backsplash to fill in the area behind the vent hood all the way up to under the cabinet above.
mpoulsom
10 years ago
sally has a great idea! add a small ledge shelf...you could actually put spices up there for cooking and add another piece of your backsplash art in the small space above.

OR you could do thin strips of stainless steel above it...either magnetic or not...have your knives up there in that space or other cooking utensils. If they are hanging down from the upper area, it would fill in the space nicely.
Luciana
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Such a pity... your splashback is beautiful, but it looks out of place at the moment. There are a couple of things you could do:
- cover the rest of the wall in a back-painted glass that matches the background colour (milky white?) of your splashback (similar to pic below)
- you could have it on the left hand side wall (the one with microwave+oven) if you can give up the plugs there, re-sized, obviously; choose something else for the rest of the kitchen.
- re-size and place it vertically in front of the hob.
- use it somewhere else (bathroom?) and consider new splashback for kitchen.

Good luck!
yoboseiyo
10 years ago
i love the shelf idea.

then do glass tile on the rest.
i would pick one of the bright colors from it! :D
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10 years ago
I think that back painted glass in a color that you pull from the custom piece. This will not be as busy as glass tile with all those grout lines.
mpoulsom
10 years ago
kitchen wall rack ideas for your space above........
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silyab53
9 years ago
Paint the bare bit the same as your cabinets, then put a steel utensil rack in it.
Pam Hill
9 years ago
might sound daft: go to one of those places where you can paint ceramics [like this: http://www.ceramicscafe.com/] and paint a large plate to fit in the gap under the cooker hood. take your inspiration from your splashback. you could do one large and some smaller ones for other areas.
Sam Tarry
9 years ago
I think Sally has the best ideas she's right you just need to wait until your kitchen is finished , once everything's finished and in place it will all look different , don't rush at this stage ,I personally think it will look amazing left as it is , it looks great now :-)
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