What do you all have behind sink?

[nunnie]

Tiles, or paint or other?

Will be painting kitchen this weekend hopefully fingers tightly cossed.

Just wondered if I need to put something other than paint behind the sink. Have a stainless steel splashback for hob.

My current kitchen has a mixture of tiles and wallpaper (previous owner).

Thank you in advance.

Having kitchen done at the moment. We've gone for tiles behind the sink, but then I am prone to splashing!

I am prone to splashing also. If I go for tiles, to I have to tile the whole area or can I just tile behind the sink? I am having trouble visualising it.

I'm doing three tiles high along the whole work top so that it is a continuous flow, but it's the feature wall so don't want the sink to stand out. It would be ok just doing a section but you really need to visualise. If it helps, we blue tacked some tiles to the wall to visualise, but we are painting too so it will cover over the blue tack marks...

Glass splashback being put in tomorrow!!!!! Quite nervous actually...

We have a window but between the worktop and the window is an upstand (about 10cm) and then paint. The countertop, upstand and windowsill are all brown granite.
Never had a problem with splashes, paint is wipeable, but rarely gets marked.

Glass splashback. It goes up the wall to the window then the window sill is also covered with the same glass. Looks really neat and is immensely practical.

Tiles. Part of a continuous flow of tiles all along one wall.

We splash too much (coffee grounds etc) for just paint.

Thank you everyone.

Bluetak is a great idea, will have to wait till kitchen is fitted as only just been plastered so it is an empty square, so think paint this weekend fit kitchen next week then decide on behind sink coverage.