How-To Tile a Kitchen Backsplash + a Video!
This post is in partnership with Lowe?s. We?re overhauling our kitchen and mudroom with Lowe?s and sharing our experience with you! Here?s our initial design meeting, how we pieced together panels + fillers, how we shopped for durable countertops and how we built thick floating shelves. Renovation is a funny thing. It starts out exciting; you think, oh, the possibilities! You […]
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We’ve tiled several backsplashes, floors and walls, and I promise you, you can do it, too! It’s a painless DIY with the most satisfying results, and although it does take time, it’s a skill that catches on quickly. In fact, the first time I learned to use a wet saw, I was hooked! However, I’ll say this: we’ve had a few different wet saws over the years, and a quality wet saw has made all the difference in the ease and overall success of a tiling project. We used this 10″ Kobalt sliding saw, and it was, hands down, the star of the show:
Tools + Supplies Used
This tile
This pencil tile
10″ Sliding wet saw
Premixed mastic
Premixed grout
Caulk (matched to grout)
2-3 Buckets
(A lot of) water
V-notch trowel
Float
Sponges
Marker
Small level
Heavy kraft or rosin paper
We chose to go 2′ up the wall from the countertop, and we topped the raw edge with a thin pencil tile. Anything higher felt too fussy for our laid-back Tree House, and anything low...
The post How-To Tile a Kitchen Backsplash + a Video! appeared first on Yellow Brick Home.
We’ve tiled several backsplashes, floors and walls, and I promise you, you can do it, too! It’s a painless DIY with the most satisfying results, and although it does take time, it’s a skill that catches on quickly. In fact, the first time I learned to use a wet saw, I was hooked! However, I’ll say this: we’ve had a few different wet saws over the years, and a quality wet saw has made all the difference in the ease and overall success of a tiling project. We used this 10″ Kobalt sliding saw, and it was, hands down, the star of the show:
Tools + Supplies Used
This tile
This pencil tile
10″ Sliding wet saw
Premixed mastic
Premixed grout
Caulk (matched to grout)
2-3 Buckets
(A lot of) water
V-notch trowel
Float
Sponges
Marker
Small level
Heavy kraft or rosin paper
We chose to go 2′ up the wall from the countertop, and we topped the raw edge with a thin pencil tile. Anything higher felt too fussy for our laid-back Tree House, and anything low...
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