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Handyman Dresses Up Your Kitchen Backsplash

  
  
  

Take a look at your kitchen countertop. I see a handymanmosaic opportunity to really make your kitchen stand out. You probably have a small backsplash against the base of your wall where your countertop meets it. Above your backsplash you likely have just the regular drywall surface painted like the surrounding walls. What if you added something jazzy from the countertop all the way to the bottom of the wall cabinets?

You can do a lot of things with a backsplash area…tile, stone, mosaic. When that boring area is dressed up with a decorative feature, it really looks pretty special. 

Mosaic looks very unique. It comes on a netting that allows you to install sheets of it at a time, cutting installation time. The pieces are glued to the netting and once you prepare the wall, it’s a matter of pushing the netting onto the wall. Some of these will have spaces so you can grout the areas in between the pieces, and some are close enough where you can’t grout.

For the mosaic or tiles that are on netting, I use mastic on the wall. Follow the manufacturers suggestions, but basically you will use a notched trowel and spread the mastic on the wall. The netting gets pushed into the mastic and it sticks. You will have to measure and figure out obstacles such as electrical outlets, and cut some tiles or netting. For the outlets you can use box extenders and cover any gaps with the outlet covers.

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