Basement bar wall design ideas
Hello everyone !
I am so happy i found houzz ! We are building a house here in Canada and I have this basement bar where the wall behind the sink just looks empty. I am thinking of putting floating shelves there since I do not like the look of cabinets. Except my problem is how far up do i do the back splash? I do not want to do the whole wall and my designer suggested I do 12 inches high and covering the 6 feet from edge of bar to the wall behind the sink. How many floating shelves? How should I organize them and how long should each shelf be? I dont want the backsplash to look like an incomplete design. The cabinets are a light grey in colour with stainless steel appliances.
Please see the pics for details. Right now I got dark grey quartz with sparkle. Its called monarch and the backsplash is a subway tile that has a mirror/glass look edge. Just the 12 inch height of subway tile will cost me 500$ hence why am avoiding doing the whole wall over there. Hope that makes sense !
Thanks everyone !
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Rema Zawi
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5 years agoIf you put floating shelves that just go up to where you originally wanted to stop the tile then it may work. Another way to do the shelves is a rectangle box. The section of the wall without tile may look ok as long as the colours match up. I think it would look better if you stop the shelves where the counter ends instead of going all the way across.
Your designer might be right about it. If you try to make it look too complete it might look too busy. There are quite a lot of photos for bar shelves online. Here are a few for bars including a couple examples of the box style shelves.
Rema Zawi
5 years ago
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