Tiles in kitchen?

Auntie-Dolly

I have oblong glass tiles that look like an upstand. Really easy to keep clean but I wish I'd put a bead tile along the top.

moneyistooshorttomention

Or is it too late to continue the worktop just a bit up the wall and leave the rest as plain painted? Dependant on what you are using for worktop of course...

Mine is going to be quartz and it was greeted with great relief by me to hear that people are now continuing such worktops slightly up the wall and using it as cooker splashbacks. No tiles:D.

Great - that equals no grout either:D

I figure doing things that way will equal an absolute minimum of future housework (trying to get that grout looking clean again) and ditto of future maintenance work. That Shirley Conran phrase of "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom" comes to mind about any avoidable housework imo...

I've never really found I like kitchen tiles very much either - though I think white subway ones don't look too bad.

But - yep (or rather nope) to grout imo. Bliss to know I won't ever again get greyish grout (where it should be white) or grout on kitchen windowcill starting to show signs of mould in fact:T

rosie383

Sounding quite positive in favour of tiles! Did speak to dh earlier but he isn't convinced yet.
I have to say though that coloured grout has been a real eye opener. We have grey in the bathroom on floor and walls and also on the kitchen floor. What a difference compared to grubby white!
Good point about smaller tiles being easier to keep clean. I suppose for day to day wiping over it makes sense.
Moneyistooshorttomention, we didn't go for the quartz upstand as the cost would have been quite a chunk on what we were already paying for the worktop. And because of the sockets it wasn't really practical.

The kitchen is very monochrome at the minute with grey units and worktop and jasmine white walls. Really needs a splash of colour. Was looking at blue atoll for the splashback so may look to see if we could get a similar colour in tiles and that may convince dh. He thinks that because it is quite a nice, modern kitchen that tiles look a bit old fashioned. I'm personally not overly keen on the subway tiles but there are some nice long rectangular ones that I think look quite modern.

helcat26

We used to have tiles but it was the grout I was concerned about. Looked at granite/ steel /corian but it limited what you used to clean it.
We ended up having sheets of a granite +acrylic mix put up (granite transformations and no I am not a spammer) you can clean it with anything and it is seamless. 8 years on still pleased and everyone thinks it is granite.