New kitchen- tiles or one of these steel/glass splashbacks?

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Really torn on this. My instinct is tiles, as I think they are more classic and possibly these glass splashbacks will date. But equally I can see the advantage of simply wiping a surface rather than thinking i really should having to scrub the grout between tiles.

Kitchen will be contemporary but not ultra modern- oak cabinets with black quartz worktops.

What do you have, and what would you get if you were re-doing your kitchen now?

We did ours earlier in the year and I love my glass splash back! So much easier to clean and looks sleeker.

Go for glass but avoid a fashion colour - of you don't want it to date.

We have a black one with tiny sparkly bits in it. When the hob light is on it looks amazing!

When we had tiles, it was always so grubby. Life is too short to scrub grout.

live in a HA property so not given too much choice. However, have just battled to have black tiles with black grout in my new kitchen instead of the standard white, in the hope of reducing the above.

Hopefully it was worth forking out for, it certainly looks better

The glass one sounds like a great idea, less nooks and crannies to get grubby.

Our new kitchen which is being fitted next Month is having complete glass splashbacks. Everywhere thay we previously had tiles will be glass. We have gone for a dark blood red colour to complement cream high gloss cabinets and a bllck and cream speckled grantite worktops.

Overwhelming vote for splashbacks then! Thanks all. I am tempted, I must admit. o you find though, that the splashback is sufficient to 'catch' all of your cooking splashes? DH comes from the 'whack it on high until it explodes bubbles furiously" school of cooking.

Of course not!
My DH believes that oil is an essential cooking ingredient

But darker/smoother surfaces limit the damage and make it easier to remove.

anyone who has already got glass splashbacks.. did you go for the full width between your cabinets or just a low upstand and full behind the cooker?? curious about to get a new kitchen too. have decided on the glass but not sure how to do it.

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Mine will be full width - identical shape to the 4th pic down in lime green but in deep red.

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I like very much.. any idea roughly what it all costs?? Im thinking of similar but in a pale green.

We're probably going to go with glass upstands and full height behind the hob mainly because of cost and the tricky position of a window. But our plans may be foiled by the curvy wall and the upstands may have to be tiles instead.

I wanted to install them myself to save £££ - is that realistic?

Scuba,

I have been quote between £1300-1400 for mine which is the same as the Lime green kitchen (except a curved top to the cooker chimney)plus a plain full width splashback accross our other 2m worktop up to the bottom of the cupboards. You nned to include things like holes for plug sockets etc (which are £25 each).

Gentleness, i wouldn't fit one myself personally I am leaving it to the experts. It was only about £250 more for them to do all the work.

They do look good but go for the best you can as the thinner cheap ones don't look as good.Friend had an ikea one and it snapped! Having said that I have the tiler in the kitchen as we speak and they look stunning!

If you are having granite worktops you can also have a granite splashback. I've had glass splashbacks to the full height of the units they looked fab and were really easy to clean, sadly we moved.

We had perspex in our last kitchen - really excellent stuff. You can even pantone match it (if you are really sad like me!)

Everyone said I would get bored of the colour but I had it for 7 years and loved it every day. Pick something you like rather than something fashionable.

I will go against the grain and say tiles, mainly as I think they are more classic and it sounds like they might work better in your kitchen.
If you are worried about grout getting mucky then you could use mid tone grout such as grey, I did this in a previous kitchen, it looked very good and the grout was easy to keep clean.

I've gone for a quartz upstand and splashback the same as the worktop.

Love my glass splashback over cooker

Considering glass splashbacks myself to save money although having granite counter tops - surely glass would cheaper? Won't be until next year but gathering up lookbooks at the minute.
Loving the sound of black sparkly glass. I def wouldn't go for colour.

We will have an L-shaped kitchen in our new extension, with the sink on one wall and the hob/oven on the other.
We are going with cream units with an oak effect worktop and matching upstand. No tiles anywhere, just a glass splashback above the hob.
We're planning on making this our feature wall so the whole wall (base unit to wall units) will be painted a teal colour (a la Marmite's) with either a clear glass splashback - to see the colour through - or a funky LED light colour changing one.
If we want to change the colour of the walls in the future, we'll just repaint.
I will have tiles, probably mosaic, in the new utility room.

We just got a new kitchen, oak and black granite work tops. Going with cream tiles for splashback, had them before and didn't find them too bad to keep clean (although my standards are low!). Going with the tiles as figure they won't date. Putting a bright green paint on one wall - love it now, easy to change when I get tired of it!

If you have granite tops, get granite up stands and splashback. Looks really neat.

In fact, we have taken our granite onto the windowsills too.

Wiping paintwork or even repainting the splashed parts of the wall, where any splashes misses the splashback is so much easier than cleaning tiles/grout- most of the splashes go on the splashback, but a quick wipe. maybe paint over once per year around it- keeps it looking nice- tiles would be looking grubby by now!

Utterly fed up of cleaning grout. Glass or stainless steel for me now!