Hi Marie, if you use a fine metallic grey like the Dulux FX41/070, this is quite light and will pick up on you Stainless Steel as well as crystals in what looks like your Paradiso Granite benchtops.

Hope this helps, Malcolm

See the Dulux Quantum FX range.

I personally don't like Grey and Burgundy together it's very old 50/60s ' .

What about clear mirror or black

Clear mirror worries me with the cleaning!!! Even if it seems nice. Black scares me what a contrast that would be , I am afraid I am not that brave!!! :)

What ever you use it has to be cleaned, all you need is something like windex and paper towel. Get something black and stick up along the splash back do the same with a mirror

Yep , I'm 100% with dreamer -- a burgundy splashback , or even moving towards a bright fire engine red .

There is only one colour that is worse than grey , and that is beige . Anyone with beige in their kitchen should be arrested on the spot .

Oh -- above the white cupboards you have boredom inducing creamy beige . THAT is what makes your kitchen look like it does .

Me -- I'd do ABOVE the cupboards in burgundy , below it with a Fire Engine Red splashback , or my preference , Fire Engine Red Gloss subway tiles .

Thank you all so much for the advices! Very very appreciated indeed. I am still thinking :)

Keep in mind that no matter what colour glass you choose it will all show dirty marks because they all have a gloss surface

That is a close up on the bench, I am starting to think mid grey rather than light grey? The suggestion of a burgundy splashback makes sense, but I find burgundy a "heavy" colour, and we have big cupboards with that colour already, and that nasty burgundy paint job we have had a for a few years has put me off the burgundy I admit.

Ant the tiles have a slight pinkish tone with some light mid grey thru to complicate things even more!

With the various colours you are trying to work with I’d use a splash black in white that matches the cupboards.

This was my very original idea to match the white cupboards, understanding it might look different because on glass.

Maybe that is the safest , least complicated option? The glass does not have a green hinge so it would really be white too.

Would you be prepared to get a mirror and stand it up against the current one and look at it over 24hrs. . I'am sorry that I don't like the Burgundy/Mauroon. To give your kitchen a lift from that and. all the grey pink tones in the benchtop and floor tiles. would love to see more ot the kitchen ie: stepped back

If you have a piece of glass you can paint one side white or any other colour and stand that with the painted side to the wall

Yes I may have to use A4 Dulux samples with piece of glass. I have committed to glass , already cut, so can not do a mirror I suppose with glass?

It's hard to pick a grey, and I am just wondering if the right burgundy cherry colour to match the pantry cupboard is not the obvious choice after all? Thanks for your comments btw, nice of you to take the time to advise.

Here is a view of the whole kitchen please ignore the mess we are renovating other rooms and the kitchen living is not at its neatest!

you forgot the photo, I was thinking mirror, not smoky or antique, to both give you light when facing the cabinets while cooking and washing dishes,plus being able to watch what is going while cooking etc

Pottsy99, you mentioned fire engine red, I quite like the idea of a vibrant colour (the burgundy colour of the pantry is quite dark and heavy actually, and this is also why I am reluctant to have it on the splashback even if glossy this time vs the bad paint job we have), but do you think I could have a red with a pantry in burgundy?

Hi,

since your kitchen is small and there's a lot going on I would go with a very light coloured back splash. A very light warm grey as suggested could work nicely here. It would also brighten up the area a little. I certainly wouldn't introduce yet another colour. Introducing something like a bright red will draw attention to the backsplash area, but the design of the kitchen doesn't lend itself for such a high impact visual focus. Keeping it calm and neutral will make the kitchen look more like a unit rather that bottom and top cabinets with a big red/black/maroon stripe through it.

The company supplying the back painted glass should either have a range of available colours to choose from, but usually any standard RAL colour should be available at a minimum. They will most likely have the RAL standard colours fan available for reference as well. I'd go with the one of lightest warm grey shades that is in the standard range. Your worktop has warm tones in it, your wall is beige, going in with a cool grey will make each colour look "off".

The last thing I'd recommend is black. I know it has been mentioned, but it is just too strong of a contrast and non of the other materials and colours would support such a stark, contemporary choice.

If you are worried that the existing dark red paint will alter the colour of your new glass back splash, and that's a very valid argument btw, just paint it over with two coats of white prior to installing the new back splash. I'd do that a few days prior to installing the glass to make sure the paint is nice and dry.

In terms of maintenance a glass back splash is probably the easiest to look after since its so easy to clean and there's no grout that can attract dirt over the years.

Good luck with the renovation :)

As I mentioned earlier but can't seem to see that now, is with the new photo showing light timber cabinet/s next to the kitchen you could look at light timber panel glass for the splash back, but it appears that your cooktop and sink are in quite a dark space so natural mirror would throw light around

You asked about Fire Engine Red going with the burgundy , and I think the bright red will attract your attention , while the burgundy will look darker in comparison , and they will complement each other .

Your first post , look at the 2 pics -- particularly the 2nd -- the wall to the right looks darker than the area you want to add the splashback to , but they work well together , then look at pic 1 , and there is a Weetbix box and a red box or tin on top of the cupboards , and they look the most 'interesting' things there . So in your head , look again at pic 1 , imagine above the cupboards in the same burgundy as below it , and imagine the below in the red of the box ( or even brighter ) and how warm but also interesting and focussing it is .

I think going with a grey or tone similar to the stainless steel color will look flat and boring. Have you thought about covering it with a well done custom made hard epoxy resin MR-MDF panel in a natural stone effect with pearl white and a soft two-tone silver? This could look lovely and marry in with the speckled effects on the counter tops as well so it doesn't look too busy. I do know a professional detail joiner and furniture maker who specializes in epoxy work for this type of application if you like (He is in the outer Brisbane area). Not a great example but see attached for the kind of effect I mean.

Well thank you all for the comments / suggestions / advices, I have finally made a decision to go with the same colour as the pantry cupboards in burgundy. This is what we have been living with for a few years (but as a painted job, and a colour not matching exactly) so hopefully, the same colour than the pantry under glass will look good, and is probably a safe call. This was a very hard decision indeed!

As an Important follow-up to the House of Dawes post above (and attached); Marie's kitchen has a Gas Cooktop and so the suggestion by House of Dawes to use a painted MDF splashback is wrong where such a splashback would not comply with the AS.NZS 56011:2013 Gas Installation Building Code and would actually create a serious fire risk.

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