Glass Tile Backsplash Options For An Elegant Kitchen

Posts Tagged ‘granite countertop’

I have taffy-colored kitchen cabinets with a beige 3" X 3" ceramic backsplash. I’d like to update my present beige laminate countertop with a dark brown or beige granite countertop. Should I keep the beige backsplash or change it to match the granite countertop? My kitchen floor is beige tile and matches the present backsplash. Also, what color for the granite – dark brown or beige?

A woman’s in her huge, remodeled kitchen with slate or hardwood floors, cherry cabinets, granite countertop and Ann Sacks tile backsplash, and stainless steel appliances. She’s cooking food she bought at Whole Foods.

Her husband walks in with a latte he bought at Starbucks on his way home from work, a commute he enjoys in his Lexus. He opens the mail to see his tickets for a cruise he’s going to take in the Carib the coming February. He flips on the 72 inch flat screen tv and watches Lou Dobbs rail about how everything is worse than it was a generation ago, and he sends his buddy a text message saying you have to watch this, Dobbs is right?????

Is it that, while he’s better off, his buddy is better off, everyone they both know is better off, they’re convinced that somewhere out there are tens of millions of people who are somehow worse off?

http://www.nytimes.com/specials/downsize/21cox.html

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1988/05/art1full.pdf

http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-07.html#winners

http://www.dallasfed.org/fed/annual/1999p/ar95.html

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/25/pf/record_millionaires/index.htm?cnn=yes

http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/28/news/economy/millionaire_survey/index.htm?cnn=yes

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/28/news/economy/millionaires/?cnn=yes

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/bg1773.cfm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6214022/site/newsweek/

"When the collapse comes" – what collapse? You folks have been saying that for over 25 years now.
Shhhhhh John that Honduran housekeeper counts in the population survey conducted by the Census Bureau – which is the ONLY basis for people being able to say there are more poor people!
Um, Elway of those 45 million without health INSURANCE, more than half are immigrants from poor countries.

We import our poverty.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/SR9.cfm

I have light oak kitchen cabinets and am getting tropical brown granite countertop installed. Any color ideas for a travertine backsplash?

Hi , I too have formica laminate on the wall and want to replace it with tile. Since my new countertops are not as thick as the old ones, and there was a metal strip between old countertop and wall laminate, there is now a gap of drywall of approximately 1 inch between the granite countertop and the bottom of the wall laminate. Can I fill this in with something to make the backing surface even, and if so, what can I use? There are several places within this gap where they drywall is damaged from countertop removal, but I believe these areas could be spackled.
Unfortunately before discovering this site, I took advice on an associate at a major home improvement center, who told me I could not tile over the laminate but that the laminate would pull off easily from the wall. I attempted to pull one piece off and most of the covering on the drywall came off with it. I don’t suppose there is any repair for this other than replacing the drywall? The total size of the area I attempted to pull off is 24 x 36 and about 1/2 of that area still has laminate, which will not come off and the other half has naked dry wall. Luckily for me, this area is separate from my main kitchen area, where the laminate remains intact.
Thank you very much for your advice.

I too have formica laminate on the wall and want to replace it with tile. Since my new countertops are not as thick as the old ones, and there was a metal strip between old countertop and wall laminate, there is now a gap of drywall of approximately 1 inch between the granite countertop and the bottom of the wall laminate. Can I fill this in with something to make the backing surface even, and if so, what can I use? There are several places within this gap where they drywall is damaged from countertop removal, but I believe these areas could be spackled.
Unfortunately before discovering this site, I took advice on an associate at a major home improvement center (Kitchen backsplash Ideas expert), who told me I could not tile over the laminate but that the laminate would pull off easily from the wall. I attempted to pull one piece off and most of the covering on the drywall came off with it. I don’t suppose there is any repair for this other than replacing the drywall? The total size of the area I attempted to pull off is 24 x 36 and about 1/2 of that area still has laminate, which will not come off and the other half has naked dry wall. Luckily for me, this area is separate from my main kitchen area, where the laminate remains intact.