Ready for a kitchen refresh? You don't need to drive a sledgehammer through a wall to give your space a fresh look. Sometimes it's just a matter of adding tiles and a fresh coat of paint, and voila! And when it comes to home improvement, nothing sets a kitchen apart like a backsplash. If you are planning to give your kitchen an original touch and furnish it with a certain style, then surely a beautiful solution is to use one or more items in Murano glass.
Whether it's a cheeky patterned inlay, an unexpected metallic backdrop, antique ceramic gems, or classic white subway tiles, the right backsplash can be the final touch that brings together your design scheme for the cooking space of your dreams. So, wherever you fall on the chef spectrum (no judgment, hello freshers), here are 15 inspiring ideas from designer spaces that will make the home center the heart of your home.
Amazing Tile Backsplash Ideas For Kitchen Glow Up
1. Blue And White Spanish Tiles
A step into this kitchen is as thrilling as the view of the ocean beyond its walls. A melting pot of periods and places—with varying colours, layering, assorted patterns, and natural elements—this villa is a fitting salute to the rich history of the Spanish island of Menorca. In this space, that blue-and-white Spanish tile, which carries itself into the cabinets, is artwork. Incredible!
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2. Classically Inclined
There's nothing more classic than white glazed subway tile, an elegant solution for almost any interior style—and the kitchen of this idyllic retreat on a remote Scottish island is proof that this simple design has stood the test of time.
Comes true. With a custom hood and a peacock blue-painted vintage table (not to mention pops of red flooring), this colour palette brings together all the romance of its illustrious history with a dash of pizzazz. You can also hire top Interior Designers in Bangalore to transform your kitchen design.
3. Art Deco Deluxe
For those out on glam style, there's only one oft-repeated word of caution: Sometimes too much can be, well, too much. But designer Bradley Stephens—who incorporated his first muse, Art Deco Banks, into this Manhattan apartment—knows when to control it.
So of course, this subtle backsplash provides a steady neutral, blue-toned backdrop for the dramatic patterned floors and vintage brass pendant. A weightless backdrop to the lead act, we give a (metaphorical) round of applause to the true star of space.
4. Black Backsplash
We love how this bold kitchen turns informality on its head, mixing postmodern-inspired lighting with charcoal-coloured tiles to create a cozy Pacific Northwest feel, West Vancouver, British Columbia-style does. The backsplash brings together dark colours throughout the room, connecting black back-of-the-island blocks with delicate pendant lines.
5. Harlem History
Did you hear? Pots and pans are the new wall art. The owners of this 18-room townhouse added modern appliances but kept the patina of the room's existing subway tile. With chairs made from recycled Coca-Cola bottles by Emeco, this room is anything but dated—albeit, not without its treasured Harlem history, considered backsplash tile.
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6. Green and Copper Hamptons Home
This dreamy summer home is brimming with East Hampton energy, complete with a vintage Toole chandelier and Palesque kitchen chairs. The copper hood and pots shine almost against the bright white tile stacked horizontally. The high-contrast scheme plays well with seafoam-green cabinetry—a refreshing deviation from the ubiquitous Hampton scheme of blue, white, and Gray.
7. Bold and Bright
The design of this farmstead-luxury hospitality space's officiant Gulo, Tenuta Carleone in Radda, Italy, is honing all the vibes of its buzzing setting. Patterned tiles create a stunning mosaic that surrounds warm sun-yellow cabinetry with stainless steel appliances and polished chrome hardware. With an abundance of natural light shining through the arched windows, the kitchen is a sun-splashed utopia.
8. Rustic Luxury
This 300-year-old historic home, the property of restaurateur Rose Bonura, is a study of contrasts: past and present, black, and white, rustic, and modern. That's why these Shaker-style panelled cabinet doors really sing, accented by the large white tile backsplash that's satisfactorily proportioned for the expansive room.
9. Colour-Splashed
Although designer clients loved the white cabinets in the kitchen of their Houston home, but she gave them only half their wish, painting the lower cabinets and an island bright green. However, the tile respected his wishes, adding modesty to the room and a touch of sparkle against the kitchen's matte finish.
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10. Dome Home
Talk about an unconventional build. This 1970s geodesic dome home required a custom build of everything, including this heath tile backsplash, a fresh square shape that adds variety to this dome world of triangles, octagons, and pentagons. It's giving us serious Harry Gesner nostalgia.
11. Maroon Meals
We could live comfortably in a kitchen like this one, which has a sweeping merlot-maroon backsplash that serves as the focal point of the room. Mission Tile West's Mosaic House tiles are proof that you don't need a bright colour to make a room pop.
12. Playful Glamour
The kitchen is generally considered a neutral zone in this classic Park Avenue apartment. These large white backsplash tiles show off the width of the floor strip. Everything is set against an invigorating palette of baby blues and pastel yellows that pop against bright whites. It is as welcoming as it is gentle.
13. Half Hex Stack Tiles
We can hardly fathom an earlier rendition of this kitchen that didn't include a colourful backsplash. But believe it or not, the rich green Heath Ceramic Half Hex Stack tiles in this Brooklyn townhouse kitchen were once white subway tile installed by the humble developer.
14. Seafoam and Squares
It's the black-bordered tile that really gives this Austin ranch house the charming Texas kick we know and love. Referencing the easy-living homes of Southern California along with its southern and central Texas roots, this cool, light-filled home balances earthy textures with a burst of colour and pattern.
15. Tiles on Capri
Few backsplashes speak a time and place in a big way. Case in point: these wavelike majolica tiles that evoke the island's surroundings of this mid-century villa on Capri. These tiles, custom-made by Galleria Elena, were reproduced in the likeness of something found at Capri's Villa Torricella, the early 1900s home of American expats Kate and Sadie Wolcott-Perry. Talk about a backstory!
