Slate backsplash with white cabinets!

BEFORE BACKSPLASH AND COUNTERS

We have been meaning to do this project for a little while, but sometimes we get project exhausted.  So one day while I was at Lowe's they were calling my name from the shelf! I picked up a few boxes and some premixed thinset for walls and went on my merry way! I had those done within the first 30 minutes of arriving back home and was ready for more.  We designed our area that will be above the sink and did all the pieces I could do without having to use the dreaded saw! I always have visions of cutting off my fingers. Then I had to wait.  OF course November is hunting season and September and December so only after dark and when we weren't completely exhausted could this get done.  It finally was completed last night (in between church and bass pro shop, dinner, working out and hanging with our kids) and ready for grout, which I did this morning!!! :)

We wanted to do a rustic backsplash since the cabinets were white (we scored them off craigslist and it was too good of a deal to pass up!! We had enough to do a basement kitchen, a work bench for hubby in his hunting room and hang a gorgeous glass one in the laundry TALK ABOUT SCORING BIG!!) But with my husband being an outdoorsman we wanted to keep with a more rustic theme for the basement! So slate seemed like a good option!



DURING, poor husband!

                                                                Before grout, but tile is set!

                                                  Ta DA!!!!!!

                                          It looks even better and more colorful in person!!