Make a SPLASH in your home with these D.I.Y Backsplash projects!

There are a multitude of different ways to spruce up your kitchen, and adding a backsplash is one of the most creative and fun ways. Adding a backsplash can give your kitchen personality, can improve the marketing of your home and can be a way to keep the home looking modern. Epicurious.com explains many different ways to either update or install new backsplash in your kitchen, including painting over existing backsplash, installing peel-and-stick backsplash, and making a faux brick backsplash.

Pairing backsplash with the overall theme of the kitchen.

These tips are fairly inexpensive and can be done in a day! When installing backsplash, you want to make sure the design matches things already present in the area, such as the wood color, the lighting and the type of appliances within the kitchen (stainless steel, white, or black). The goal of the backsplash is to not only add o the overall ambiance of the home, but to compliment it as well. Pairing a backsplash that works cohesively with the amount of light and the overall color theme of the home is a plus.

Using backsplash to your advantage

Backsplash used within the home should not only enhance the decor and feel of the home, but also work cohesively to strengthen the colors of the home. A backsplash that compliments the tiling in the kitchen is a great way to enhance the marketability in the home.

Places like Lowes and Home Depot have a variety of different backsplash options, and allow you to preview the way the tiles would look in your home! This article by EpiCurious shows the different ways you can show your creativity in your kitchen backsplash! Remember, even after putting the backsplash in your home, you can further decorate the backsplash in different ways by putting a clear or semi-gloss glaze over the backsplash, or even painting over the backsplash with distressing paint to give it a vintage feel. Furthermore, a way to be illusive when decorate backsplash would be to stencil in a pattern into a painted kitchen wall to give an illusion of a tiled backsplash. This way allows you to draw artistic patterns in your "backsplash" and give the mirage of a backsplash.

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