Colorful Kitchen Backsplash

Carolina's Art
by Carolina's Art
4 Materials
$30
3 Days
Easy

We are in the process of finishing the inside of our country cabin and I needed a waterproof backsplash but also wanted color.

I decided to use hardie backer board (special bathroom drywall for tiling), texture it and then paint it.

I had my husband cut the hardie and then I added the texture. To do this, I used Soquete but you can use any drywall texture which you apply with a regular paint roller.

After it dried, I painted the entire wall with an oil-based copper paint as a base. ( So, one day to cut and texture, next day to paint and third day to install).

Then came the fun part...

Because I have turquoise rock inserts in the live edge kitchen counter, I wanted to use those same colors for the walls.

I used three different colors of blue and green.

I also used some metallics. Using a pallet knife, I just applied the paint directly onto the textured hardi board.

Basically, what happens is that the paint will get mostly on the raised areas. I used the different blues and the metallics. The last color was the light aqua which really stood out.

When it was done, I installed it using screws and then touching up the screw holes with more metallic paint.

This was the counter before we installed it. I added the turquoise rocks inside the cracks and then poured the epoxy (but explaining the process is another post icon ).

Here you can see it installed. I still have to add a small live edge piece of cedar on the edge, another shelf above the microwave and knobs and a new refrigerator but we are getting there. Little by little.

Here is another picture but with a smaller microwave because the other one died.

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  • Wyldecent Wyldecent on Dec 23, 2020

    Nice! How is this holding up (both the live-edge counter and backsplash)?

  • Markeen Markeen on Dec 24, 2021

    How did you apply the board?

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