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“Uh-oh” moment. “During the installation of the zellige tile backsplash, the design process hit a significant snag,” contractor Brian Airehart says. “The vision was for a glossy, light gray backsplash with organic variations. However, when the tiles arrived, the batch had more color variation than expected. Some tiles were noticeably darker, almost a charcoal gray, which clashed with the airy, cohesive aesthetic the homeowner had envisioned. Compounding the issue, the installers began setting the tiles in a stacked pattern as planned, but the uneven edges of the handmade zellige tiles made the grout lines appear inconsistent, creating a messy, unfinished look.

“The homeowner, seeing the partially installed backsplash, panicked. The designer suggested pausing the installation to reassess the tiles, proposing that they hand-sort the tiles to use the lighter gray ones on the main walls and reserve the darker ones for a smaller accent area, like above the range, to create a subtle contrast that could enhance the design. To address the grout issue, they switched to a thinner grout line with a custom-mixed light gray grout that blended better with the tiles, minimizing the uneven appearance, a technique the designer had seen in a recent Houzz article on working with handmade tiles. After a few extra days of work, the backsplash came together beautifully.”

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2. Wood, Blue, Brass and Black-and-White Tile

Designer: Martina Servos of Lemon Grass Interior Architecture
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Size: 408 square feet (38 square meters); 17 by 24 feet

Homeowners’ request. “My clients like to cook, they are family people and love to entertain,” designer Martina Servos says. “This is an addition. We bumped out the space to turn the old galley kitchen into a ‘real’ kitchen with an island, emphasized the connection to the family room by widening the opening and installed the 9-foot-long pass-through window to communicate with guests on the deck.”

Materials mix. Walnut cabinets. Blue cabinets (Dark Harbor by Benjamin Moore). Quartzite countertops. Oak flooring with cement tile insert around the island and for the hearth in front of an original chimney. A brass liner borders the tile. The hood is also brass. “In my view, visually speaking, a kitchen is a combination of verticals and horizontals,” Servos says. “The challenge is to get the mix right, neither too boring nor too chaotic. We used the walnut more sparsely for furniture-like elements; it made the material special.”

Other special features. The pass-through window over the sink connects the kitchen to a deck with a bar countertop and stools.



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