Our 11 Favourite Kitchen Splashback Ideas

Finishing touches like the kitchen splashback can give your room exactly what it needs to stand our from the crowd and create a truly unique and personal space. They allow the opportunity to go wild with your kitchen tiles and create an area that truly reflects you and your style. They are there to protect your walls from splashes and spills when you’re cooking, and so are vital to a clean and tidy kitchen space. Here are our top 11 kitchen splashback ideas to ensure you’re making the most out of every inch of your kitchen, especially the splashback!

1 – Use Contrasting Colours

First off, we suggest using contrasting colours across your kitchen space, and the splashback is the perfect opportunity for this. Say you have a deep green kitchen, it would be a bold and effective design choice to opt for a pink tile to use across the splashback. It is sure this combo will truly pop against one another. This combo will work in the same way our Marmalade Pick n’ Mix tiles work with this blue cabinetry. The vibrancy in this kitchen is inspiring and energetic, perfect for waking you up first thing in the morning when you’re making your breakfast.

2 – Make a Patterned Statement

To inject character and detail into your kitchen splashbacks, find yourself a patterned tile that slots in with the rest of your kitchen design. By using pattern you’re creating a lively and interesting space across what could have been an otherwise boring and dull area. There are hundreds of styles and designs to choose from when it comes to patterned tiles, so ensure your choice works alongside the rest of your kitchen. For example, pick out tones and colours within the design of the tile that you can use elsewhere, maybe in cabinets or kitchenware.

3 – Highlighting Your Herringbone Design

Using herringbone across the walls can be seen as slightly more unconventional than it is across the floors, but we think you should embrace this! By creating a herringbone design across the wall you’re introducing a lot of texture and interest to the space, perfect for the kitchen splashback area. When you implement this, it may make sense to you to straighten out the top of your splashback to create a perfect horizontal line. As much as we love this think it creates an elegant finish, we also love the idea of embracing the herringbone design by keeping the top line uncut and natural. The zigzag design this creates is sure to add plenty of interest and a funky design across your kitchen walls.

4 – Add Interest With Shapely Tiles

To continue the bespoke and unique theme we’ve been talking about, try introducing tiles in quirky shapes, that you perhaps wouldn’t normally opt for. This can be anything from hexagons to ultra slim tiles. We’ve opted for a hexagon mosaic tiling for this kitchen splashback. The bright white tiles have been contrasted by a dark black grout to ensure the shape of the individual pieces pops, and is visible at first glance. It allows the space to become so much more than just a blank white splashback, and adds depth to the area.

5 – Adopt Exposed Brickwork

If it’s a more traditional country style kitchen you’re looking for, consider using exposed brick across your splashback, particularly brick slip tiles. The rustic charm of brick slip tiles is sure to create a really warm and comforting atmosphere in your kitchen, and bring an otherwise dull space back to life. Bricks can also create quite an industrial look across the kitchen. If this is what you’re looking for, enhance it with metal accessories and wooden shelves, sure to create a truly modern and contemporary feel.

6 – Go For Gloss

If you feel your kitchen is perhaps on the smaller side, try implementing glossy tiles across your splashback. This creates a reflective surface for the light to bounce around your space, making it appear overall larger and grander. These cream rustic metro tiles are perfect for this, as they have a slightly bumpy surface that reflects the light beautifully. Their shade also compliments this, creating a country kitchen aesthetic across the whole space.

7 – Use Accent Colours

Introducing an accent colour to your space can be a really effective way of tying the whole room together. It means the space will begin to make sense in regards to its colour scheme, and can be accessorised accordingly. Introducing your accent colour throughout the splashback means you have the freedom to implement the colour elsewhere in the room without it becoming too overwhelming or over the top. We’ve used our Hoxley Pistachio Linear Tiles and complemented them with a variety of plants and foliage to accessorise. The green in the plants brings the green in the tiles out beautifully, and means the whole space is seamless.

8 – Introduce Lux Materials

To give your kitchen a more high end and luxurious appearance, use materials that are considered to be a bit more classy and luxurious. Materials like marble and stone are perfect for this, and complement kitchen spaces effortlessly to make them appear elegant and sophisticated. Here at Walls and Floors we have a huge selection of marble and stone effect tiles that are sure to refresh your space and bring it back to life. We’ve used our Scultura Rena Stone Effect Tiles across the splashback and flooring space, to truly bring this space to life and give it a sense of expense. Stone effect tiles are perfect for capturing the look and feel of real stone, without the hefty price tag or difficult upkeep.

9 – Match your Splashback To Your Worktop

If you’re looking for a more seamless and sophisticated space across your splashback, try finding a tile that matches, or at least compliments, the look and feel of your worktop. This is sure to enhance the feel of expense and luxury in your home, and create a beautiful backdrop for the kitchen area. It’ll also make your worktop area appear much larger and grander than it really is, with the illusion of more space. We’ve paired our glossy off white worktop surface with this beautiful gloss white tile. The combination is reflecting around the area effortlessly.

10 – Blend in With an Understated Splashback

If the bold patterns and colours are a bit out of your comfort zone and you’re looking for something a bit more understated and simple, don’t worry. These schemes can result in an equally gorgeous splashback space for your kitchen. Using a plain, neutral tile will be sure to create a calming and soothing space, and will blend into the rest of the scheme effortlessly. An elegant white metro tile will achieve this elegant look perfectly. Take our Metro Chalk Farm White Tiles, for example. They create a really classy backdrop for accessories and other textures to be used throughout the area, without taking centre stage and distracting the eye.

11 – Match your Paint to Your Tiles

Similarly to our last point, by complementing your splashback tiles to the paint you use across your space, you can create a really beautiful backdrop for further accessories later on. Choosing a similar colour to use across your paint and your tiles can ensure the kitchen wall space remains elegant and classy, and not a distraction from the rest of the kitchen. For our Raku Black Tiles, we kept the paint above the splashback a similar dark grey shade, to compliment the tiles while allowing them to have their moment to shine. The wall space in the rest of the kitchen allows the colours throughout the rest of the space to work and stand out.

There you have our top kitchen splashback ideas to inject some life and character into your space. Be sure to tag us in the results of your kitchen refresh on Instagram, @Wallsandfloors, we love seeing your projects!