When designing a kitchen, it’s normal to obsess over appliances, cabinets and counters. But there’s another element that ...

You might think your kitchen backsplash is just there ... Feel free to extend your backsplash tile above your upper cabinets ...

In a kitchen with yellow cabinets that Pluck built with Stealth ... Downing has a tadelakt plaster backsplash above concrete counters, along with a tiled bar niche.Credit...Lindsay Brown Metals ...

When designing a kitchen, it is normal to obsess over appliances, cabinets and counters ... A mirrored kitchen backsplash can do the same thing, and make the walls above counters almost disappear.

like designer Shauna Speet did in the kitchen, above, or us a white beadboard against a colored cabinet. This backsplash idea is also inexpensive (yay!). As far as kitchen tile trends go ...