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I am out of money after redoing my floors, painting everything, taking down a wall, doing granite, painting the cabinets, putting in new bathroom tub, faucets, and buying some furniture. The only thing left is the kitchen backsplash. I did want white subway tiles. I got an estimate but the guy is a handyman, not a tiler.
Just wondering if anyone ever did peel and stick backsplash in their kitchen? Was it easy? Did it look too cheap ? I could probably do this myself. Maybe.
Ages and I mean ages ago I did peel and stick mirror tiles on a wall in our dining room. The trick is having clean walls. They did stick but I had a hard time cleaning them. The tape tabs were at the corners so leaning on the center to clean meant no support behind. I imagine the backsplash will get wiped often and I don't know how that'd impact them 'staying put.'
You may want to consider the "tin ceiling" or "subway tile" flat panels as a money saver. Think like paneling. Not perfect but in your situation maybe a solution.
I did it in my last house (prepping it to be a rental, I knew I'd live there short term). Even with fanatical prep, tiles would come loose and need attention (tile adhesive for glue-down flooring). I suspect it would have been better to have bought tiles that needed to be glued down and just gone that route from the get-go.
We also used "soft touch" tiles, they collected grease like nothing else. The whole backsplash looked terrible after less than a year. Something to avoid.
It's not something I'd do to anything but the cheapest of homes though. Even painted walls would have more appeal to potential buyers IMHO.
Paint would be your cheapest and easiest material for a backsplash. You can use any of the pre made 4x8 boards like bead board or peg board. How about wallpaper. MAybe use a sheet of laminate and use that.
Getting my house ready to sell. Installed granite counters and, trying to limit how much more I am putting into it, I am using paintable beadboard wallpaper on the backsplash. I have regular beadboard panels under the chair rail, so it will tie-in. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Super-Fr...5274/100625997 It would be an easy enough thing to remove down the road when you have the budget to do an upgrade.
Getting my house ready to sell. Installed granite counters and, trying to limit how much more I am putting into it, I am using paintable beadboard wallpaper on the backsplash. I have regular beadboard panels under the chair rail, so it will tie-in. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Super-Fr...5274/100625997 It would be an easy enough thing to remove down the road when you have the budget to do an upgrade.
That's an interesting option. It would be easy to cut out for outlets etc. Is it easy to install?
I am out of money after redoing my floors, painting everything, taking down a wall, doing granite, painting the cabinets, putting in new bathroom tub, faucets, and buying some furniture. The only thing left is the kitchen backsplash. I did want white subway tiles. I got an estimate but the guy is a handyman, not a tiler.
Just wondering if anyone ever did peel and stick backsplash in their kitchen? Was it easy? Did it look too cheap ? I could probably do this myself. Maybe.
My adivce...Waite! Get what you really want, save up, besides it doesn't have be done right away!
Install real subway tile yourself! Subway tile is CHEAP and really easy to do. My husband and I had never done tile before and we did the backsplash in a previous house in a weekend after watching some You Tube videos. (I even included a few rows of glass pencil tile as a liner since it was on sale at Lowe’s when we bought the subway tile.) We rented a wet saw for a day to do the few cuts needed (we did the classic running bond pattern so it was mostly full tiles) and did the whole backsplash for under $300.
I put peel-and-stick aluminum 1x2s "tiles" in sheets in my travel trailer around the stove - just slapped them on the wood surrounding the stovetop and it worked fine (2 years - and some hard roads - in).
But, really, tiling it yourself, as mentioned above, is not hard. You can buy the pre-mixed thinset and grout and you can even buy a relatively inexpensive tile cutter (looks like a cross between a paper cutter and a glass cutter).
Probably the hardest parts of tiling are learning how to get the right consistency in thinset and grout and figuring out where to start and how to deal with cutouts/non-square walls, etc. Mostly in a backsplash the hardest things are the outlets.
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