Kitchen Splashback HELP!!!
Please help trying to replace red splashback approx 4.5 metres. White gloss cupboards & beige floor tiles with beige
grout. Cautious about light coloured glass due to green tinge & too much gloss. Any ideas??? Love white but don't want it looking sterile due to large size. Thank you!!!
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Heidi Carroll
6 years agoRelated Discussions
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cloudpants
6 years agoWonderful suggestions above. If you wanted to stick with white, just ensure that you stop it from looking sterile by choosing an interesting textured tile or dark grout as per these photos...
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHi Heidi, your Kitchen looks very now. I hope I can help with your concern about having a "green tinge" to your glass splashbacks if you use a light colour. There is a glass on the market which has been developed as a Low Iron glass, which has perfect clarity and allows light colours to be used without being distorted. (One brand name is called Opti-Clear Glass )
We recently put Designer White splashbacks in at Auldana for a client, where we also used a very fine metalic first coat under the glass which looks great when it catches the light.
If you like the lack of grout lines that Glass offers and like its easy clean benefits but are concerned about the gloss of glass and prefer something different; then there is another large format sheet product on the market that you may like to consider called Neolith (see : https://www.cdkstone.com.au/surfaces-neolith/ ) This material has some 42 styles / colours / patterns which comes in a range of matte, textures and gloss finishes which can help add character and interest.
Like Neolith the makers of Quantum Quatz also make a large format Porcelain thin sheet in a range of colours and testures which we use for Splashbacks called QuantumSix+.
Hope this information helps. Malcolm
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHi Heidi, a lot of the suggestions above use white on white; this actually works well, allowing you to introduce colour with accessories and other furnishings without it looking sterile. If you go to Cath Tonkin Interiors ( above) and our earlier post (above) you can see here how this type of minochromatic scheme is used to great effect.
This is another White on White kitchen we did where we used white Subway Tiles for the splashback, where colour accents are added elsewhere.
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