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I'm removing our ceramic-tile kitchen countertop and replacing it with granite. The stone I selected is Kashmir White. We have cherry cabinets, grayish-green walls and hardwood floors. Does anyone have ideas for backsplashes? I didn't just want to use the same granite as the countertops--that's a lot of stone. Does anyone know of sites that show picures of different backsplashes?

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Go to your local tile & stone dealership. When we put in granite countertops we used 4" tile (not shiny ceramic tile but a matte-finish porcelain tile) that had a beveled edge for the backsplash - there are lots of choices. You can get 1 tile of each of the kind you like and take them home to see which one works best.

October 22 2007

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How about a polished nickel, aluminum or similar metal that could coordinate well with the gray- green walls. easy clean up.

October 22 2007

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You might think about some sort of complimentary tile (gray/slate) with small squares or inserts of the material from the counter.

October 23 2007

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glass tile or maybe stainless steel

October 23 2007

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Maybe some tumbled marble tiles in complementary colors - you can go to your local tile center and play with patterns on the floor (take pics with your cell phone) then check them out back home in your kitchen. The less shiny surface of the marble is a nice contrast to polished granite.

October 23 2007

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We are putting up this product that looks like ceiling tins as our back splash. You can find them near the kitchen cabnet section at Lowes and Home Depot. The panels are about $19.00 each. They have various types of metal tones and patterns. It is also an easy install and the look is BEAUTIFUL. I can't wait to put ours up!

October 24 2007

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Mine is stainless - love it

October 24 2007

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have the same problem. Can't decide. What I really like is using granite on the backsplashes as well as the countertop. A nice, neat look. But I doubt I can afford it.

A weird idea I once had, but haven't investigated, is to make a backsplash out of those office/ garage wall cover strips that are used so that owners can hang up stainless steel baskets and such off of those strips. Then I can order those kitchen racks in stainless baskets that I see in kitchen supply magazines to see if the strips will hold them as well. I've never seen those garage things up close - just from a distance on HGTV, so it might not work. Just brainstorming.

October 24 2007

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Hi, I'm a Tile Contractor, have been for 20 years. I usually recommend a tumbled travertine on the diagonal. About every 2 to 3 feet in the middle of the splash, top to bottom, I install a 3x3 or 2x2" piece of Granite straight to offset the travertine. The Granite is the same as the counter top. What this does is pull the counter top up to the splash yet with the travertine you still have a softer look. You can seal it with a penetrating sealer or a sealer that adds some shine to the splash. I'll email you some pictures of jobs if you want to see, Ed. ecarson1958@yahoo.com

October 25 2007

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Sounds beautiful, Ed.

October 25 2007

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ed,

I cook - a LOT; tumbled marble as a backsplash would be way too hard to keep clean because its so porous. Even with a sealer, the first time you have that blender accident that we all have sooner or later.....I like the pretty but give me hardworking any day.

October 25 2007

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Thanks, these are all great suggestions. I'm heading to a couple of tile showrooms tomorrow to check out the options.

October 26 2007

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I just picked my back splash last week. I chose 1"x1" glass tiles and a glass pencil for a border (which I'll only be using on one wall.) I love the look of the glass and the one I picked looks beautiful with the granite I picked for the counters. Glass in expensive, though. $35 a sq. ft though I'm getting the contractor price of $31.

October 30 2007

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We used a combination of 4" hued glass tile and 4" chinese slate tile for our backsplash with random metallic tile thrown into the mix for accent.

In a basement that I recently did work on, we put in a bar that had a granite countertop with complimenting and coordinate granite tiles for the backsplash. It was a relatively inexpensive option and looked very clean when it was completed.

Another idea would be a length of cut glass for the backsplash. Using a fastener in the corners and evenly spaced 2 to 4 feet apart allows for the glass to be fixed to the wall, and can span the height of the space from the countertop to the bottom of the wall cabinets. This creates two pluses for you. One, the smooth surface is easy to clean, not unlike the granite countertop. Two, the glass is translucent, allowing whatever color you have painted on the wall behind it to be displayed for the backsplash (wallpaper can also be used). That way, as times and styles change, or if you simply get sick of looking at that, all you need to do is take down the glass, change the color or paper, and put the glass back up. Another plus, is that the fasteners can be of hardware that compliments the hardware of the cabinets. The look is limited only by your imagination and can be changed as often as you like, plus the glass is is not pourous and doesn't require the step of being sealed.

October 30 2007

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Is Kashmir White granite actually mostly white? If so, maybe you could get what is known as subway tile? It's the white tile that is 3" x 6", sort of brick shaped I guess, but it's not thick like brick. You can look at it a tile wholesaler showroom. Another idea would be, if you kitchen is a specific style, say Tuscan or English or Art Deco, or if you want to create a specific style, you could tile the backsplash in a pattern that echoes that style.

November 05 2007

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I have green granite countertops, maple cabinets, and open glass shelving instead of upper cabinets. House was built in '80s and really needed updating. More granite would have looked too heavy so I ordered sandblasted glass panels the length of each wall. Haven't installed them yet, but I can't wait. I'm going for a more contemporary feel, but I think this could work in many settings. Decided against glass tiles as I wanted a more simple, streamlined look. My walls are Behr Honeydew.

November 09 2007

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http://www.tilesandstones.com/showrooms.php is my favorite but they are only here ein FL they have very rare stones with alot of variety.

I also like to goto the home depot/expo store. they usually have 10 or so display kitchens as well as alot of samples so you can do color matching.

December 01 2007

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Kramerlois - your kitchen sounds a lot mine will be. I picked Euro style natural maple cabinets - a verde granite counter top and a lighter green glass tile for the back splash. I only have two walls that need a back splash because one will have a pass through. Mine is also contemporary. Construction of my addition and kitchen starts on Monday.

December 01 2007

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Let us know how the kitchen remodel goes - make a diary! You could probably sell the daily diary to a magazine as a freelance article of how to survive a kitchen remodel!

I would barely notice the absense of a kitchen as long as I have a coffeemaker hooked up somewhere, the excuse of construction to go to restaurants every day and a freezer for ice cream.

December 03 2007

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I'm not into the blogging stuff - but I will keep a photo diary. I did it for all the work we did two years ago - and bored my friends to tears with piccie updates for months.

I upload them to Snapfish so when it starts looking like something I will post a link.

They delivered the lumber for the framing this morning and some other stuff and now the onsite project manager is just checking to make sure everything is set to go and just told me the foundation is two inches lower then it should be! But he says not to worry that it only means they'll have to put down two layers of something ( maybe plywood?) so the floors from the existing house will be even with the new addition. He said my project manager thought when he checked the floor boards (or something) they were something by 8', but they are something by 10'.

He told me the framing and the roof will be done by next week and hopefully all the insulation will be in too and then they will start knocking down the wall. I had no idea that part would go so quick.

lucy - If it was only me I wouldn't miss a kitchen at all - but I have a 14 yr old kid, hubby and two dogs. But we use our grill, and we'll move the micro either in the rec room down stairs or the dining room and the old frig downstairs, too. I have a sink in the laundry room so I can wash dishes when I have to. Supposedly, the gutting of the kitchen is the last thing they will do - sometime at the end of January or at the latest *finger crossed* by February so I have some time before I have to think about it.

The other horror is that they had to take down part of my fence so no more just letting the dogs out, and I live in a cold climate - we had an ice mix this morning - and it can get down below zero here in the winter. Walking the dogs is going to suck.

December 03 2007

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Emily,

You are an upscale New Yorker and I'm a good 'ole girl Southerner, yet we share similar experiences. My contractors always make mistakes when measuring, and delays result in new orders. I have a 14 yr old kid and dogs.

I really, really feel your pain in having to walk those beasties in below-zero. Down here, it's comparable to having to walk them in mid August when it's 98 percent humidity and 98 degrees. Except our toes and fingers don't freeze. We collapse in sunstroke and kidney failure.

The coldest temp. we have experienced in our lives was minus-2 back in 1983. Thought we would die. We're wimps.

December 03 2007

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Lucy, girl or boy (child that is)

Mine is a boy - Freshman in HS.

Dogs (girls) are both rescues - the big dog is a labbie/border collie mix and sweet and smart. The second is my high maintenance member of the family. A part Peke part Japanese Chin that we got from a kill shelter via my mother last summer. Needless to say she has a lot of issues. And is dumb as a doorknob. Sigh. But when she is good she is very sweet.

I love hot & humid - though I know summer can be ghasty - nothing is worse then being cold.

I usually go down to florida for a week at the end of January & again the last two weeks of March to get out of the here but this year with the construction I definitely can't go in January. DH would kill me if I left him without a kitchen and house in disarray with two dogs to deal with ( not to mention boychild.)

My on site project manager did put the fence back up last night and will just take it down when they need to get equipment or material back there. Will make my life so much easier.

December 04 2007

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Ours is a girl - a freshman, too.

She's a cross-country runner, sweet, plays three musical instruments, loves anime and computers. Yes, a nerd, but a pretty one! :) She's become enamored of Ithaca College's music program. If we tour Albany, I'm calling you to meet us for lunch!

Our dogs are also girls and also rescues; a black lab-something (aren't labs great!) a reddish Chow-ador (our sweetest and least trouble) and our small pesky one, a Pom-Poo. My husband describes that dog the way that you describe your Peke-Chin: Dumb as a doorknob.

We also have rescue cats and rescue birds. The dogs, cats, birds all get along, although we had moments when U.N. intervention would have been welcomed.

I'm happy the fence is back up. What a relief!

December 04 2007

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My son runs cross country too! He loves it. He's not doing indoor track this winter but will do outdoor track in the spring. He plays the trombone and is in Symphonic and Jazz Band at school. He's also an accomplished sailor and we've been told he has Olympic potential and that we should buy him a boat (which isn't happening anytime soon.) He sails all summer at camp and once he is done as a camper can be a sailing counselor there. He might look into colleges with sailing program but it will really depend on if it's school he wants to go to. But who knows maybe he can get an athletic scholarship.

I was accepted at Ithaca (a long long time ago) but decided not to go there - not for music though - I did know someone who did graduate from there and went for music and studied voice. It's an excellent program. Have you ever been to Ithaca? The town is beautiful - very hip - but not as much a party town as a lot of other college towns since the Cornell students are a bit more into studying then the typical college student. That's not to say there isn't anything to do and the kids don't party - I went to plenty at both schools when I was that age (my best friend was at Cornell.)

Is she thinking of U of Albany, too? If you come would love to meet for lunch.

There is also Eastman School in Rochester - it might be a part of U of Rochester and an excellent school in Cleveland who's name escapes me but DH's cousin's daughter graduated two years ago as a flutist and is in grad school at Temple continuing her music. She was just here auditioning for the Albany Symphony,. She didn't get a call back but it was her first audition and she wasn't expecting to.

Gosh, what a menagerie you've got going. I can barely handle the two I've got.

Having fence is huge relief!

December 04 2007

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While we are in New York, we will be looking around at all of the campuses in that part of N.Y.. Cornell, too, even though she hasn't a chance of getting accepted. She is 98th percentile in English/language nationwide - but don't ask about math. We will go to Cornell to buy our favorite veterinarian T-shirts from his alma mater. If not this summer, the trip will surely be by the summer of 09..

Which colleges have sailing programs for your son? Harvard, I think, has one. But yikes! The tuition! I'm not sure if UNC-Wilmington offers sailing, although it offers a major in marine biology. If he heads to the Olympics, you can bet we Zillow'ers will cheer him on.

As for the menagerie part, I will paraphrase the comedian who says:

"You know you're a redneck if .... your porch collapsed and more than 10 dogs died ...."

We have 9 pets (including the birds) because of a merged household when mother became ill. We started with two dogs, then the birds arrived on daughter's head after a visit to the park. A couple of year's later, a stray cat came through our pet door, went into labor, and our daughter helped deliver the kittens. We kept the mom and one kitten that my daughter insisted was hers. The veterinarian helped us find homes for the other six. Another reason why he deserves a medal or, at least a sweatshirt from Cornell!

December 05 2007

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When I wrote "kept the mom" I mean the mother cat.

We also have kept MY mom and her three pets. :) The backsplash and countertops at her home, where we moved to care for her, are circa 1963. I can't decide what to do about them yet.

December 05 2007

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My vet too is a Cornell grad ( I swear they all our.)

The Ivy's are out of boychild's league also - even though he is very bright he's on the lazy side, tbh. We reached the end of our rope in October when 5 week progress report came home. We badger, take stuff away, ground him, etc. He always turns it around when push comes to shove but we decided we didn't want house turning into a prison and just the aggravation of it all so pulled him from his public school - which, though excellent, there were too many ways he could fall through the cracks. So got him in one of the best prep schools (which was the week from hell) and has been a sea change - most likely simply because they give immediate detention if even one homework assignment isn't turned in and Saturday detention if you fail to do three assignments. Seems to be working. Much smaller classes and it is all boys which helps, too. He loves it so we are thrilled we did not (except for the tuition part.

College of Charleston has sailing, as does USC, UCLA and all the Ivy's. We haven't looked into that much so I'm sure they're are tons more. U of Miami probably does, too.

I'd like him to go to a small school though - just prefer them - but it will be his choice.

Where else in NY are you looking? She might like Skidmore. I know they've always had an excellent dance program and theatre program. I'm sure they must have a music program though how it stacks up I've no idea. Syracuse also has some excellent programs. Keuka College is not that far from Ithaca and Wells (which is all girls) Have no idea if they have music though.

My kitchen is circa 1956 - though we did a cheap update when we first moved in replacing horrid counter with nice laminate and painted the cabinets, put in new sink, and cook top, and a vinyl floor which was ok for a couple of years but then started to wear badly.

Are you planning on staying in the house for the long haul?

Vet definitely deserves at least a sweatshirt

December 05 2007

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I will minimally mention our backsplashes to stay on topic.. Mom has 1963 white Formica with gold flecks. Her room is rather rustic - large antique brick fireplace in the family room that is open to the kitchen with birch (or beech ? - no grain) cabinets. My indecision comes from leaving cabinets as-is that blend in the wall and aren't too showy, or changing doors, and if I change doors, that would affect countertops chosen. Circular thinking.

Yes, vet deserves the sweatshirt. He did a lovely job on our Pom-Poo's damaged hip. She has Cushing's Disease, and when the labrador sat on her by accident, the hip dislodged. She was scampering about three days after surgery.

I joked with mother and the vet that if I knew then what I know now, I would have fired mother's doctors and simply taken her to the veterinarian. Cornell is superb. I hear that they are also brave enough to list the best foods for pets, whereas quite a few vet schools receive funding from pet-food companies and won't offend the companies wih the worst!

I WISH they would give my daughter detention for not turning in her homework. She does it, forgets to turn it in, and gets zeroes. Nothing dumber than to have a slacker's grades while you're not slacking! Another thing we have in common: kids in private schools. We rented when we first moved, did not wish to enroll her in a school district with the lines about to be redrawn the next year.

December 06 2007

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Oh... my husband went to junior high and high school in Mount Pleasant. A suburb of Charleston. His father was the doc in charge of the health department for several years. My favorite place to swim and be lazy is the Isle of Palms. Calm ocean as warm as bath water.

Go check out the College of Charleston. Makes for a great vacation in fall, winter or early spring even should he doesn't like it. A strong Jewish community would be there for him should he need them. The city was the first in the nation to have freedom of religion laws, before America was a nation, thanks to the Jewish and Hugenot communities. (I'm not Jewish, but lived in S.C.) Fascinating history, lovely city, but those aren't the reason to go. The restaurants... ahh. The Mills House brunch used to be a glutton's delight!

The heat and humidity might kill him the first year. My co-workers from New England said they had no idea that heat and humidity could be that punishing from July to mid-September. Heat is our version of snow. We do our yardwork before 9 a.m., and rush from car to air-conditioned building before we suffocate outdoors!

December 06 2007

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"I WISH they would give my daughter detention for not turning in her homework. She does it, forgets to turn it in, and gets zeroes. Nothing dumber than to have a slacker's grades while you're not slacking! Another thing we have in common: kids in private schools. We rented when we first moved, did not wish to enroll her in a school district with the lines about to be redrawn the next year."

I had the exact same problem. He'd do it and not turn it in or "forget" to do it and got zero's, too. Last year the last quarter in science he had 6 zero's! Still managed to get an 80 - simply because he is bright and does very well on tests. It was beyond frustrating. And his teacher told us he was one of the brightest if not THE BRIGHTEST in his class. Also, because of stuff like that he didn't get into any honors classes. When the same crap cropped up this year - he had a 68 in Science, ffs we transfered him immediately. After three weeks at his new school (they get a progress report every three weeks and a report card every six weeks) he had a 96 average in Science and all his other grades were in the high 80's to mid 90's range. The last hurdle is to get him to stop thinking he can do Math in his head. Been telling me he can't since the third grade. He has been doing better with that except for on his last test - he only got an 86 because he got a few wrong and failed to show any of the work on those so didn't even partial credit. I'm going to insist he put big post it note with SHOW YOUR WORK on his desk before every exam.

It wasn't that he was doing horrid - his GPA was always between 86-88 - just that he is capable of doing so much better. And those grades just will not get you into a decent college these days. It's brutal out there.

December 07 2007

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