Making a Splash

First, let me apologize for the lateness of this post...we did this project in October 2012, and are only posting about it now. We've recently decided that our blogs might be better served if we didn't insist on writing the posts together. So today you get a post by Jymm!

Above you see a lovely before picture of the backsplash behind the stove. This was a leftover piece of the old counter that the previous owner had resourcefully put in place of a backsplash. While the old counter was still there it didn't really look that bad...but once we replaced the old counter and put the tile backsplash around the rest of the kitchen it really looked out of place.

Enter: The Tile!! Notice the decorative stripe down the center made of slightly smaller tiles? That was our way of finessing the size so that we did not have to cut a single tile.

We pulled the stove out, took out the fume hood, and took out the old backsplash. Here's what it looked like once we'd torn everything out- gross!

The actual tile laying took about thirty minutes- tile really is the easiest thing I've had to do on the house. Which is pretty good because pretty soon I'll have a whole shower to tile. I imagine it will seem a lot harder once I actually have to cut the tile!

Here's what it looked like once we had all the tile laid, but before we rehung the  hood:

And finally, once we had the stove and hood back in place, here is what the final product looks like: