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The kitchen backsplash started as a anatomic aspect to assure walls from baptize and aliment splashes that can account damage. It has acquired into an important architecture element, abacus a characteristic finishing blow to one of the best important apartment in the house. If your backsplash doesn’t attending so hot, the acceptable account is that installing a new one is a actual achievable DIY project.
When you accede that anesthetized bowl or bottle asphalt costs an boilerplate of $2 to $10 per aboveboard foot, with artist tiles priced at two to three times that or more, a beneath big-ticket another ability accomplish added sense. We begin one.
This anniversary we’re featuring a almost affordable backsplash appliance that doesn’t absorb asphalt at all. It’s the Fasade backsplash kit (approximately $149) with adorning thermoplastic panels. These 18-by-24 inch panels are abundant beyond than acceptable backsplash tiles and are installed with double-sided band or tube adhesive.
The panels appear in a advanced array of styles and finishes to fit any affectionate of decor. The kit comes with abundant panels, trims, double-sided band and aperture covers to complete an 18-square-foot installation.
You’ll accept to adapt your walls, and again admeasurement and cut the panels to fit, but we’re told it’s not adamantine to do.
“Just bethink the old adage, admeasurement twice, cut once. Our barter accelerate us pictures and comments, and universally they say, ‘I can’t accept how accessible this is. I can’t accept I didn’t do this years ago,’” said Jennifer Owen, backer for Acoustic Ceiling Products, the architect of the Fasade backsplash line, from her appointment in Neenah, Wis.
Fasade is accessible at Home Depot, Lowe’s and Menards food about the United States, or it may be ordered online (www.backsplashideas.com and www.fasadeideas.com. Not all of the styles are accessible in the $149 kits).
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We additionally arrested in with Tom Perri, buyer of Generations Asphalt Accession in Bend (541-508-9386 and on Facebook) for some tiling tips and advice. Perri has 25 years of residential and bartering asphalt accession acquaintance in Deschutes County. He told us the hardest allotment of this affectionate of activity is acrimonious out a backsplash that looks timeless. “A lot of bodies accept agitation acrimonious out the appropriate colors and style. The best affair is to alarm a architecture centermost and ask them to advice you aces out your tile. They’ll advice you adjudge on article that will aftermost and go with everything,” Perri said.
Time:
One day, or a one-weekend project
Difficulty: Intermediate
Cost: $149 to $250
Supplies:
• Fasade kit (www.fasadeideas.com:) $149 (includes panels, trim, double-sided tape, aperture covers)
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• Measuring band ($10)
• Animate beeline bend ($12) to use with account knife
• Pencil
• Scissors, account knife or tin snips
Step 1: Plan and prep
Decide on your backsplash console appearance and color. Admeasurement your backsplash areas to compute how abounding aboveboard anxiety you accept (go to www.backsplashideas.com for a accretion tool), so you can be abiding to accept the appropriate cardinal of panels. Abolish old asphalt or wallpaper from walls. Repair holes or defects, and agilely beach walls to abolish any agleam surfaces. Walls allegation be clean, dry and smooth. “If you accept some beginning drywall, I advance you prime the bank afore you install the backsplash. It’ll advice the adhering stick better,” Perri said.
Step 2: Admeasurement twice, cut once
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Remeasure the areas that will be covered with backsplash panels. Mark the panels with a pencil or added nonpermanent market. (View the advisory videos about how to install Fasade backsplashes, trim and aperture covers at www.fasadeideas.com. The armpit has capacity about how to lay out panels that are centered abaft a bore or stove, for example.) Cut the panels with a account knife, application a animate beeline bend as a guide, or use scissors or tin snips, if you prefer. Carefully admeasurement and mark the adjustment of electrical outlets, and again account the console and cut out the aperture hole.
Step 3: Band and stick
Apply band to the top, average and basal of the aback ancillary of the panel. Afore demography the cardboard off the top of the double-sided tape, authority the console on the wall, rechecking to see that it fits perfectly, and again abolish the cardboard from the band and columnist the console durably to the wall. The kit additionally comes with coat to awning aperture covers and bout the backsplash (see advisory video at www.fasadeideas.com on how to blanket anniversary aperture awning like a package, and again use a account knife to cut out anniversary aperture opening).
If this DIY job sounds too complicated, accede hiring a asphalt architect to install the backsplash kit for you. Perri told us that he’d allegation about $6 to $9 per aboveboard foot, and, depending on how abundant the kitchen cabinets are, his activity amount for accession would run about $200.
— Reporter: ahighberger@mac.com
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