The kitchen is usually the center for all activities in the home. It is a place where you share a cup of coffee with neighbors, where the family heads first thing in the morning, the place your family hangs out before and after meals and where guests always gravitate to during parties. So it makes sense to upgrade and improve the look of the most used room in the house – the kitchen.
Whether your kitchen is traditional brick backsplash kitchen or contemporary, glass tiles is a superior material to use in creating impact. It is extremely easy to keep clean, impervious to dirt and requires minimal maintenance. It is also a fine way to spice up the area with a burst of color and, due to its highly reflective nature, can make small kitchens look larger!
Still the most popular sizes are the subway tile and the rectangular shaped tiles they are a perfect tile to add interest to your kitchen. In today’s market there is a plethora of color to choose from you can be subtle with the pastel colors or daring and bold with the reds and yellows that will have guests raving.
You can choose the larger format tiles, in 4×8″, 3×6″ and 6×6″ but it is also nice to incorporate these large tile designs with matching and corresponding mosaics, whether they are mixes themselves or simple a smaller version of the larger format in a 1×2″ glass brick mosaic or 1×1″ mosaic.
The backsplash is one of the most visible areas to anyone entering the kitchen, it makes sense that adding glass tiles to this area will freshen, as well as modernize the look affordably.
Today many companies offer a variety of glass products and one can simply find almost any color and selection by ordering online and usually at a fraction of the cost of any high street retailer. Glass tiles have become an affordable luxury, my only advice to ordering online is: