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Full-height honed stone kitchen backsplash

Limestone carried from counter to ceiling, with the outlets cut into the field and aligned to the joints.

Room
Kitchen
Location
Vienna, VA
Completed
April 2025
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Kitchen with a full-height honed stone backsplash, oak cabinetry, and bronze details

Specification study

Products
4
One of each
$146.50

One unit of every priced item, which is a floor rather than an estimate — a real room needs more than one box of tile.

Why it was specified this way

Running a backsplash to full height removes the horizontal break that a standard 450mm splash creates, and makes a modest kitchen feel taller. The difficulty is everything that interrupts it: outlets, switches, the range hood, and the cabinet returns.

The craft point is alignment. Outlets cut so their edges follow the joint pattern look deliberate; outlets cut wherever the electrician happened to place the box look like an accident. That decision is made at layout, before the first tile is set.

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Everything in this room

Listed in build order, from what goes against the substrate to what you finally see. The placement beside each product is the surface it went on. Open any of them to read the specification without leaving the room.

Open a material to read its specification without losing the room. Save the ones you are weighing up, or add them to your materials list. Set the amounts you need there, or work them out first with the tile calculator. Or take the whole list away as a document: Print this specification.

  • Four square brushed limestone tiles laid in a two-by-two grid, seen from above with raking light across the pale sand surface

    Backsplash

    Brushed finish hides everyday marks better than a polished surface behind a hob.

    $11.50per sq ft

  • A bottle of penetrating sealer for natural stone with water beading on a sealed limestone surface

    Backsplash

    Sealed before and after grouting: a kitchen splash takes oil and acid, and limestone needs the protection.

    $59each

  • A sack of large-format tile mortar with a notched trowel and combed mortar ridges

    Behind the stone

    $42per bag

  • A sack of high-performance grout in a warm grey shade beside a bronze grout float

    Joints

    $34per bag

This specification was written for the room in the photographs. Yours will need different amounts and a different amount of work behind the finish, so send the list for a quote and we will price it against your own.

The room in detail

The backsplash meeting the range hood with a clean scribed cut
Outlets cut into the tile field and aligned with the joint pattern

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Full-height honed stone kitchen backsplash

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