Why Is Colour Important in Your Kitchen Backsplash?

Synergraphic Design
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Kitchen backsplash with colorful Asian motifs, including birds and vases. Foreground has patterned jars and a white kettle. Calm ambiance.

The kitchen is not just for cooking, it is a space where your daily rituals of getting food or drinks unfold. From morning coffees to late-night snacks, the subtle presence of the colour of your kitchen backsplash can shape how the space feels. Here’s how different colour tones can affect the mood and the style of the kitchen.

Cool Tones

Adopting cool tones in your kitchens gives you that clean and calming effect, as these tones like blue are often associated with water and skies. To go for a nostalgic look, you can try incorporating the Peranakan Series into your kitchen backsplash. It has a lot of different designs and colours including different tones of blue, and helps to incorporate the vintage East Asian culture into your homes. Walking into the kitchen would make you feel like you have teleported to the era of The Little Nyonya (2008), where you are grinding spices and making a meal that is fit to win a cooking contest.

Kitchen with a vibrant blue and yellow patterned backsplash. A pot on the stove, red rice cooker, and appliances on the counter. Bright, tidy space.

Earthy Tones

Earthy tones can include tones of green and brown, and they help with grounding your space and create a rustic atmosphere. The ATMOS Collection includes Golden, which depicts a field of golden crops that are slightly swayed by the wind on a cloudy day. Just looking at this glass panel will make you feel as though you have been transported to a field, feeling the breeze from nature and the warmth from the sun. There are also green tones from the same collection including the Bamboo Forest, which gives you the relaxing and feelings of zen, which makes you feel peaceful even when you are following a difficult recipe.

A kitchen with a stove, black pan, and mountain-themed backsplash. Wooden cabinets and a counter with glassware and a dish rack.

Monochrome Tones

Monochrome tones are variations of a single colour, and using this tone for your kitchen backsplashes help suggest simplicity and elegance. A suitable collection to integrate as your kitchen backsplashes would be the Monochrome Muse Collection. This collection features 19 black and white geometric designs which were inspired by the iconic black and white art deco done by Bridget Riley. For a simple yet classy design, you can choose to go with Fig amongst the Monochrome Muse collection, where it shows clean and neat swirled lines. This backsplash gives off a retro feel combined with modernity. When stepping into your kitchen for a quick grab of coffee, this kitchen backsplash would make you feel like you are in the black and white television era while filming a stylish coffee commercial using your coffee machine.

Sleek kitchen with black and white patterned backsplash, white cabinets, and a modern silver faucet over a clean countertop. Bright, minimalist.

Colours can subconsciously alter the way we feel and change the experience we have in different places. In a place like the kitchen, where we will always be at some point of the day, you can enhance that short or long kitchen experience you have using a backsplash that fits into the tone that you want. The aesthetics of kitchen backsplashes is not just a colour, it is about evoking emotions. Choosing the right kitchen backsplash can turn a functional wall into a mood-setting art piece.