Tiling Kitchen Dilemma, opinions please

toby_puppy

Hi my mum is having a new kitchen fitted.
At the moment she has tiled splashbacks under the wall cupboards
and also there is a radiator wall which is tiled half way up
and wallpapered at the top.
My husband is fitting the new kitchen and he says the
radiator wall would look better without any tiles and just
painted in a paint that wipes down.
The kitchen table will also be up against this wall,
My mum is so used to tiles being on this wall
thatshe thinks it will look odd with just a painted wall.
There are no kitchen units whatsoever on the wall in question,
just the radiator and a kitchen table up it.
You do come through the back door with the wall
on your right but there's only my mum there
no children getting it mucky.
Any tilers or diy expert opinions would be
appreciated.
Also with the splash back, do you go arounf
the corner of the wall with tiles or not, ie
or just literally up to where the wall unit stops,
My mum thinks the tiles should continue
round the edge of the wall so you have a thin
strip of them there too ��

I_have_spoken

Unless you're replacing the plasterboard, once the tiles are removed it'll be a heck of job to make good the wall for painting.

Mojisola

toby_puppy wrote: »

my mum is having a new kitchen fitted.

My husband is fitting the new kitchen and he says the radiator wall would look better without any tiles and just painted in a paint that wipes down.

As your Mum is going to be living with the kitchen, shouldn't she have things the way she likes them?

Would your husband let your Mum over-ride what he likes in a room in your house?

toby_puppy

thanks, it wasn't so much overriding
what my mum wanted, more of what's the norm
when tiling a kitchen these days, the tiling
has been there over 30 years so maybe its
a bit dated having tiles on that wall?

Not a problem if it needs boarding he's a decorators
so he's prepared to make it good if necessary.

Im just thinking if a professional tiler had the
same kitchen, would they be tiling that wall?

Aylesbury_Duck

Nice to see a thread written in verse. Pure poetry!

Le_Kirk

...... and almost Haiku. But it's not really poetry, just lots of carriage returns!

toby_puppy

glad it made you laugh.
I'm suffering from agonising trigeminal neuralgia and the medication
I'm on effects my vision, so hopefully I will be able
to type better when things improve ��

rach_k

I think it would look odd to tile a kitchen wall that doesn't have any units or worktop on it. IMO, fully tiled walls are for bath/shower/wet rooms only. Painting it would look much better... and it's much easier to change as tastes/fashions change. Perhaps not something your mum is bothered about but if she ever might want to sell it, it could help.

Round our corners (where the wall cupboards don't go round the corner), the tiling extends around the corner to the depth of the worktop then stops. The height of the tiles is the same around the corner - it doesn't go up the side alongside the cupboards on the back wall.

toby_puppy

Thanks Rach K, that's my husband's opinion too,
that with there being no cupboards on there, there
isn't really a need for the tiles to be there.
Just. eed to convince her now. 😊

Le_Kirk

toby_puppy wrote: »

glad it made you laugh.
I'm suffering from agonising trigeminal neuralgia and the medication I'm on effects my vision, so hopefully I will be able to type better when things improve ��

Oooh, that sounds painful, no wonder you didn't try to rhyme with trigeminal neuralgia!!!

lauraland

How about tongue and groove panellng instead of tiles? It would stop the area looking so bare but without the hassle of tiling. Or even a dado rail with wallpaper below.