Advice on whether painting between the kitchen units instead of a backsplash is an okay idea

[pukkaplant]

Hello

I'm hoping someone will offer me some good advice. We have a galley kitchen. We are units below and above and services all on one side. We have been thinking of having a glass painted back splash but I'm just not sure. I still like the look of paint. We are having a wooden work top.

Would you paint the wall or is that a silly idea? What other options are there for a backsplash apart from tiles?

Thank you very much.

[charitygirl]

Glass splashbacks are available (any colour you like can be painted on the back), or stainless steel. I suppose with paint, you will be redoing it a lot.

[charitygirl]

Sorry - I didn't read properly, see you already know about glass splashbacks!

[workshy]

you can use paint but make sure it's kitchen paint, and either a glass or SS splash back behind the hob would be beneficial

Corian and Maia both do splash backs, or glass or tiles

the biggest advantage of painting is you can change the look of your kitchen pretty regularly if you want to for very little money

[discrete]

Make sure any paint you use is washable...

[MerryMarigold]

We currently only have paint as I have not got round to getting anyone to sort out splash backs. Cooker has a lid which lifts and acts as a splashback, otherwise that area would be filthy. The plan is:

Lovely piece of handmade glass behind taps (as this gets a lot of splashing!). I got it cheap in sale from here.
Narrow strip of glass tiles (cheaper than glass splashback!), about 5cm high and 20cm long along the rest of the worktop as there is nothing which splashes a huge amount other than sink and cooker, I'd say. The paint is proper kitchen paint, so hopefully heavy duty.

[MerryMarigold]

NB. I got the splashback in the sale. They had (in the summer anyway) some lovely stuff all half price!!!

[pukkaplant]

Thanks for the replies. I guess it's the very shiny look of the glass I don't like, but I can see it's really practical.

[MerryMarigold]

If you tile the splashback areas it doesn't have to be shiny. There's so many types of tile out there.

[minipie]

If you're not going to have tiles or glass splashback then I'd think you'd want at least an upstand (usually same material as the worktop) to protect the bottom few inches of wall. that's where most of the splashes/spillages go. You'd also definitely want something behind the cooker I think.

If you have an upstand and splashback behind the cooker, then I think you'd get away with just paint on the rest of the wall, but it would need to be properly scrubbable paint.

[betterwhenthesunshines]

We have a small 10cm upstand and then just washable paint. I always meant to get round to glass but never did and I worried that the highly reflective surface would have to be kept immaculate.

The paint wipes clean well, but you do need a proper extractor to avoid too much condensation on the wall. It has lasted 5 years and this autumn I touched up a hairline crack and repainted the whole wall a new colour. The kitchen looks new and it only cost me £12! :o