Claire
Master Chef
I live in an 1854 old house. The kitchen probably dates from the late 1800s. The last owner (a dozen or so years ago) painted everything blue or wallpapered it blue plaid. We had to replace the counters (they were burned) and did so with Corian, which is a sort of sage-green fake granite (sorry to all granite lovers, but the room is hot in the summer and frigid in the winter, and I don't want something that makes it colder). Now I can finally, I hope, do something about the plaid walls. Husband wants sunny yellow walls, and I'm thinking, what the He-double hockey sticks am I going to do about the back-splashes, which I need many yards of. I kind of of liked the glass mosaic tiles I've seen, but what they're showing me has "stone" tiles in them that I don't think will be easy to clean (really, I have a stone wall, it isn't). my husband is tending towards "subway tiles". I'll go with it if he really wants them, but I have to say, the grout becomes an issue which he's forgotten about. When you live with hard water, the grout gets discolored if you don't seal it .... and often (yes, been there, done that). If he really insists on the white tiles, how would colored grout look (remember, I get to do the "big" cleaning, and the grout will look yellow-ee to orange-ish in a year, if that, even with me sealing, bleaching, and using various hard mineral cleaners). Any suggestions? The cupboards are old, 50s vintage white wood, and we have white bead-board siding. I just want the plaid to go away (who in their right mind would put plaid wallpaper in an old house where nothing is plumb?