TILE'S GREATEST ASSETS are its looks and flexibility. It can take on practically any shape, color, and size, and just a few tiles can add spice to a kitchen. Tile is also resistant to heat and hence makes a great backsplash behind a cooktop.Glazed tile and glass tile are nonabsorbent, so they resist staining and water (stone tile often needs a sealer to be nonabsorbent).
It is grout that makes tile less than perfect, as grout can stain easily. Stain resistant additives and color can be incorporated into cement-based grout to improve its performance, or grout can be sealed. Epoxy grout is more expensive than cement-based grout, tends to yellow, and is a bearto work with, but it is harder and more resist to staining and mildew.
Because the joint is the vulnerable part of a tile countertop, it makes sense to go for the narrowest joint possible, but before assuming you can go with hairline joints, consider the regularity of your tile-handmade will be more variable, stone tile more precise. The larger the tile and smaller the joint, the more even the surface will be, a consideration If stemware is set on the counter. In any case, equip a tile countertop with cutting boards.
The cost of tile ranges from economical -forthe handy homeowner with discount tile-to expensive, with glass and handpainted art tile at the peak. Glass tile, the new darling of kitchen design, has a wonderful, luminous look, but if tile is translucent throughout, the setting bed must be perfect.
THIS BACKSPLASH IS TUMBLED MARBLE WITH INSET ceramic tiles, each with a charming bas-relief face . Contrasting mosaic stone tile fills and frames the arched recess over the downdraft ventlbacksplash. The countertop is honed "Absolute Black" granite with a Dupont profile.
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