Help with kitchen tiles

[Sally27]

Hi Guys,

We were wondering if anybody could give us some advice on kitchen tiles. We moved into our a home and there is paint around the plug sockets and behind the microwave which we want to have tiled instead. It just makes things easier to clean. Can anybody please give us advice on what style and colour combination of tile you think would work?

Thank you.

 

[Seafarer1966]

Colour/ style of tile is a personal taste thing.
Wife and I disagreed for weeks on what colours but now have lemon matt painted walls and white cupboard doors and drawer fronts. We finally agreed on what tiles to use and bought them on Saturday. I've just finished prepping the walls (painted PVA this morning on the areas to be tiled) but when finished there will be cream tiles with the odd cobalt blue tile dotted around among the cream on the cooker splashback and behind the worktops. Looks better then it sounds. Wife was playing with loose tiles last night in various patterns till she found what she wanted.
The tiles are 10 x 10 cm smaller ones which I prefer to the latest fad of those lengthwise laid rectangular ones that all the tile showrooms seem to have in at the mo.
Topps Tiles - Rina range of tiles. £16 a square metre (100 tiles to a box) for cream and £19 a square metre for the cobalt blue. Topps come in rather pricey for the adhesive/ grout so I got the same stuff much cheaper at B and Q. I use an electric tile saw myself for cutting/ shaping which gives a neater result.
If you're prepping your walls yourself - after you've chiselled off your old tiles, use a wallpaper steamer to get the difficult bits of old tile adhesive off the wall. It turns the hard old adhesive into a mush which scrapes off easily.

 

[roboughton]

To be honest its your own personal preference have you got some samples and tried them? If that was mine I would leave it as it is and just change out the sockets to be brushed chrome to match your appliances. I think if you really want a tile and as its a modern kitchen you need a modern tile so something like a coloured metro tile or even some filled and honed travertine.
You need to try it with some samples.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Blue ones.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

No white ones.

 

[chappers]

cream metros