Coloured Glass Splashbacks - Adding Feeling And Character To Your Kitchen

When you think of a mood, or a feeling, what colour do you think of? Coloured glass splashbacks could well help inject the sort of mood or feeling you want to experience in your kitchen, and here's how.

Often different colours will affect us in ways we don't even realise. Colours can evoke feelings as well as be provoked by them. Colours tend to affect us in subtle ways, often targeting our sub conscious minds without us really being aware of it. Yellow tends to be an energising sort of colour, which is good in conference rooms. Green is a very calming, relaxing colour, brown a comforting colour, red a seductive colour, blue a very clean, fresh colour, and so on.

Think of a feeling and you will tend to find colours coming to mind; think of a colour and you'll find subconscious feelings tagging along not far behind. This fact is important to consider when designing any room, but perhaps especially a kitchen. Coloured glass splashbacks can make a massive difference to the look and feel of your kitchen because of the way they help to inject colour into the whole space, in ways other aspects of the room can never manage.

When people try to add colour to their kitchen they'll often do so in ways that don't really work as effectively as they hope. Some people colour the doors of all their kitchen units and cupboards, although in almost every case this tends to end up looking either a bit like Noddy's kitchen, or just making the whole room feel smaller and darker. Some people go for coloured worktops, although unless you choose glass your choice is pretty limited. Natural materials such as granite are often available in any colour you like as long as it's a whitish sort of cream, and quartz is often available only in dark colours such as black, grey, deep blue and so on. Dark colours will absorb all of the light, making the room feel smaller and darker. An estate agent might describe it as 'cosy'. The rest of us just say 'cramped'.

Some people use tiles to help add colour, and whilst this can be reasonably successful, there are three problems here. Firstly, tiles take a good deal of time and trouble to put up; secondly, tiles can be a problem from the point of cleaning and hygiene, because of all the grout; thirdly, tiles still absorb more light than they reflect, meaning that you're still faced with a kitchen space which feels smaller and darker.

Coloured glass splashbacks achieve the light and colour which other methods fail to manage because they work in an entirely different way. From granite to quartz to tiles, all other materials are opaque, and therefore absorb light. Glass is different, because being transparent, or translucent, they allow light to pass through, and to be reflected and refracted. Translucent literally means 'light though', and this is the key to how glass splashbacks manage to make a room feel larger, more spacious and much lighter.

But by using coloured glass splashbacks you're not only allowing more light to be reflected and refracted throughout your kitchen, but you're imbuing that light with colour. Depending on which colour you choose for your glass splashbacks you can really affect the look and feel of your kitchen, as well as the way people feel in the kitchen. Green splashbacks will create a very relaxing space, with yellow making the kitchen seem to buzz with crisp energy. Blue splashbacks will help make the kitchen feel fresh and clean, whilst red will make the room feel warm and inviting. Coloured glass splashbacks are the most affordable and the most effective way to light up your kitchen with a feeling.

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