Brenda is working with a client in the south part of the Kansas City metro, planning for a faux finish backsplash over existing ceramic tile. So in this blog post we won’t have pictures, but I’m excited about this project because I think it will be cool. Our client has builder-grade white 4′-square tile for her backsplash. We did a faux finish on the cabinets a while back & our client made plans to update the tile back then. Well–the time has come!
Some people think that you can’t put anything over the top of ceramic tile. This may have been true years ago, but no longer. We have products to prime ceramic tile so that we can do our faux finish magic and give almost any look. Brenda used the same process on the faux finish limestone mantle we talked about in a previous post.
Back to the upcoming project: Brenda has a particular dislike for 4″ white tile for a kitchen backsplash. “It looks cheap” is her feeling about it. And we lived with it for far too long at our last house, so she really, really dislikes it. In our house we didn’t do a faux finish over the tile, but now, looking back, we probably would.
So our client is ready to change her tile. We have 2 options. We can leave the layout of the tile the same–square. Or we can use a special compound to fill in the grout lines and start with a flat surface. This will give us the freedom to lay out and tape new “grout lines” on a diagonal and then add some 2″ square button tiles as accents. Of course, the “tile” will be our own creation using faux finishing techniques.
As always, during this time of year, we will get this done for our client so they are ready for Christmas and New Years celebrations. And because we will be doing faux finish tile, our clients won’t have to live through the mess of tearing out the old tile and drywall.