Subway Style

This is a quick preview of our backsplash. About 75% of it is up. We still have one more wall to do and all the grouting. Unfortunately, I was sick in bed most of the weekend and Donnie, being the sweet guy he is, worked on the tile while wrangling the girls.

We went with traditional subway tile, but in a non-traditional color. We went with Daltile’s Elemental Tan. It is halfway between gray and brown……aka taupe.

I wanted to stay neutral this time around so that I wasn’t tied to a particular color scheme. We plan on dying in this house, so I wanted to keep our options open.

I snapped this on the way out the door this morning. I think I want to put some open shelving here. I’m thinking I want to use the same corbels as we used under the countertop. The grout is going to be a bright white for contrast.

Here’s where the range hood is going. We are tossing around the idea of putting a pot filling faucet behind the cook top. We’ll see. I think I’ll decide once the hood is up.

We did have a slight snafu on Sunday night. As Donnie was finishing up, one of the tiles fell and cracked the glass cook top. Obviously this stinks, but we’ll take it in stride. The crack affects 3 of the burners, but we still have 2 we can use. Since we aren’t gourmet chefs, we can deal with it for awhile.