Choosing New Kitchen Tiles
The choice of tiles in akitchen can either make or break the room. I'm sure each and every one of ushas walked into a kitchen and thought 'oh my god!' when being faced with anoutdated mishmash o...
The choice of tiles in akitchen can either make or break the room. I'm sure each and every one of ushas walked into a kitchen and thought 'oh my god!' when being faced with anoutdated mishmash of old fashioned kitchen wall tiles. Worse still or thosekitchens where the owner has tried to rectify an outdated design by coveringold ceramic kitchen tiles with those cheap plastic tile sheets which can bepurchased from most pound shops.
If you want to bring yourkitchen up to date or back to life, then the only real option is to peeleverything back to the bare walls and start from scratch. It's only wheneverything has been stripped out that one can stand back and really get a goodidea of the potential the kitchen has. Two things stop most people fromstarting afresh with their kitchen; time and money. Can you cope if yourkitchen is a building site for a week or two? Can you afford to rip outeverything and replace it?
Kitchen floor tiles,cupboards, shelves, units, wall tiles and plumbing may all come out if you'relooking for a completely new look. For one reason or another, the sink alwaysseems to be located facing the window, but this may hinder the 'workingtriangle' which every kitchen needs to work. So moving the sink away from thewindow could be a good place to start. With the sink moved away from thewindow, you'll need to put kitchen tiles on the wall behind the sink to act asa splash back.
As the kitchen is a room forwork rather than relaxation, keeping the colours and tones to a minimum isadvisable are we're trying to move away from the busy, Mediterranean influencedceramic kitchen tiles which were popular decades ago. The kitchen is forworking in so you need to choose kitchen tiles which will enhance the availablenatural light rather than dumb it down. So choosing white or pale colouredkitchen wall tiles will make all the difference, especially in smaller kitchens.
Contrasting pale wall tileswith darker kitchen floor tiles works extremely well, as having pale or whitetiles on both the walls and the floor can result in a sterile space with toomuch white. Terracotta is too brown for this day and age, however black, darkgrey, blue or green work really well on the floor. Try to avoid glazed kitchenfloor tiles as these can become very slippery when water or grease has beenspilled. Non glazed ceramic kitchen tiles look better and are safer in thekitchen.
Whether you're just replacingthe tiles or cupboard doors, or ripping out the entire kitchen and startingfrom scratch, think long and hard about how your new kitchen should look.Whatever you do, don't look for the inexpensive quick fix as you'll never havea dream kitchen. Remember, you spend a lot of time working in the kitchen so atleast make sure it's a pleasurable space to work in.
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