Splashbacks That Look Good With Wood
Enhance a solid timber kitchen benchtop with a splashback that brings out its beauty
Both traditional and contemporary kitchen units look great topped with a smart wooden benchtop, but it can be difficult to visualise what kind of splashback to choose to complete your dream scheme. For a little inspiration, check out this selection of successful combinations, which prove wooden surfaces can look wonderful with a variety of splashback materials.
Pick out tongue and groove
Panelled walls finished in a contrasting colour to painted wooden units can look very effective, especially in traditional farmhouse-style kitchens.
Here, simple duck-egg blue units topped with a pale wood benchtop sit serenely beneath a cream-coloured tongue-and-groove wall-covering. Just ensure you use paint suitable for a steamy kitchen environment.
Panelled walls finished in a contrasting colour to painted wooden units can look very effective, especially in traditional farmhouse-style kitchens.
Here, simple duck-egg blue units topped with a pale wood benchtop sit serenely beneath a cream-coloured tongue-and-groove wall-covering. Just ensure you use paint suitable for a steamy kitchen environment.
Mix it up
To create a relaxed, bistro-style setting, team wooden benchtops with a mix of splashback finishes. Here, chunky surfaces sit alongside tiled and mirrored walls. This look is well suited to large kitchens with high ceilings, but would perhaps look a little too fussy in a smaller space.
Rock the mix-and-match trend
To create a relaxed, bistro-style setting, team wooden benchtops with a mix of splashback finishes. Here, chunky surfaces sit alongside tiled and mirrored walls. This look is well suited to large kitchens with high ceilings, but would perhaps look a little too fussy in a smaller space.
Rock the mix-and-match trend
Play with heavy metal
If a material has protective properties, won’t be damaged by water and can easily be fixed to a wall, you can turn it into a splashback, as this edgy scheme demonstrates. Here, corrugated metal undulates across the walls and becomes the star of the show, leaving simple wooden units and benchtops as the vital supporting cast.
If a material has protective properties, won’t be damaged by water and can easily be fixed to a wall, you can turn it into a splashback, as this edgy scheme demonstrates. Here, corrugated metal undulates across the walls and becomes the star of the show, leaving simple wooden units and benchtops as the vital supporting cast.
Go back to brick
Raw materials tend to sit nicely together, so wooden benchtops and simple brick or stone will work like a dream. Here, vibrant blue-painted units have been combined with a mix of wood and stainless-steel benchtops, to give this welcoming kitchen a clean industrial feel.
Bricks in all their glory
Raw materials tend to sit nicely together, so wooden benchtops and simple brick or stone will work like a dream. Here, vibrant blue-painted units have been combined with a mix of wood and stainless-steel benchtops, to give this welcoming kitchen a clean industrial feel.
Bricks in all their glory
Add some sparkle
Brightly coloured, back-painted glass splashbacks work gracefully with both light and dark wooden benchtops. Alternatively, you can place a clear glass sheet over a wallpapered wall; just make sure it’s sealed properly to prevent condensation creeping in.
Brightly coloured, back-painted glass splashbacks work gracefully with both light and dark wooden benchtops. Alternatively, you can place a clear glass sheet over a wallpapered wall; just make sure it’s sealed properly to prevent condensation creeping in.
Opt for custom-made
With the latest digital imaging you can create your very own bespoke splashback to suit your wooden benchtops. The funky glazed design here sits like a unique piece of art behind the sink.
With the latest digital imaging you can create your very own bespoke splashback to suit your wooden benchtops. The funky glazed design here sits like a unique piece of art behind the sink.
Call for copper
Many light oak benchtops have a coppery tinge, so this iron-glass splashback gilded with copper leaf to give a marble-like effect is ideal for this kitchen. The splashback has been overlaid on a wall painted olive green, but you could experiment with different background colours.
Many light oak benchtops have a coppery tinge, so this iron-glass splashback gilded with copper leaf to give a marble-like effect is ideal for this kitchen. The splashback has been overlaid on a wall painted olive green, but you could experiment with different background colours.
Take your benchtop up your walls
If you have wooden units too, this look could be overkill. However, if your units are in a contrasting material, such as the white cupboards seen here, using the same wood on the walls as the benchtops can create a very striking and streamlined feel.
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If you have wooden units too, this look could be overkill. However, if your units are in a contrasting material, such as the white cupboards seen here, using the same wood on the walls as the benchtops can create a very striking and streamlined feel.
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Create a mirror image
Mirrored splashbacks complement any benchtop – they simply reflect the room back at you. And they are very effective in narrow galley kitchens with a single natural light source, as they help to bounce the light further into the room.
In this kitchen, a mirrored splashback sits alongside simple handleless units and makes the wooden benchtop appear to double in size.
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Mirrored splashbacks complement any benchtop – they simply reflect the room back at you. And they are very effective in narrow galley kitchens with a single natural light source, as they help to bounce the light further into the room.
In this kitchen, a mirrored splashback sits alongside simple handleless units and makes the wooden benchtop appear to double in size.
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Have you found the perfect splashback match to match your wooden benchtop? Share your ideas and photos in the Comments below.
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Whether you opt for minimalist subway tiles as seen here, or vibrant patterned designs, ceramic and wood naturally work well together. Because of this, tiles are the perfect splashback for wooden benchtops. And while wooden flooring might have been too much in this scheme, porcelain floor tiles finish the room off elegantly.