I'd remove the upstand and install a backsplash of your choosing - lot of people are installing a piece of worktop material as backsplash to maintain clean lines and less fuss. But you can also put up tiles or a mirrored or coloured glass backsplash. Look at other kitchen photos and see what you like and what would look good with everything else in the room.

We aleays recommend our customer to tile back splash area. Its durabdurable and looks very nice.

Choose the tiles you prefer (I would reccomend white metro tiles), go hire a tiler and boom, ever everything done.

We have an antique-y style mirror splashback above the upstand. Works great for us.

Our mirror is heatproof with the jnduction hob and so much easier to clean than tiles.

Thank you. I’ve not found many photos of up-stands with splash backs so I was struggling to visualise it.

If you have upstands around the rest of your kitchen you will need them to match on this part but you would not normally have an upstand and a splashback behind the hob. Most people choose to have the splashback right down to the worktop.

l would consider having glass as the splashback as opposed to tiles which will get dirty grout from grease splashes

Is it unusual to have both then? Might explain why I’ve struggled to find photos! Yes the up-stand follows the work surface round to the right behind the sink but this is the only part with a wall.

It is unusual to have both upstands and tiles. Why have both when you only need one or the other? A glass or acrylic backsplash behind the hob in a similar shade to the worktop/upstands would be ok though I think.

It’s usual to have an upstand, as you have, or a tiled splashback, but not both. Why not paint the splashback area in a tough washable paint? Dulux do their Easycare range, or their Trade Diamond Matt paint which can both be scrubbed if necessary.

We‘ve recently had a new kitchen, and painted the walls with Dulux diamond matt above the upstand, and had a piece of coloured glass in two shades darker than the wall colour as the splashback. Most glass companies will colour match the big brand paint colours.

As you've already got the upstand it seems crazy to rip it out - even if it's not the normal - just add a glass splashback above, either clear glass so it's not so prominent or coloured glass to make a feature.

We've just had ours done and have an quartz upstand without a splash back. We'll eventually get something behind our cooker but I don't think we need it on the run as the paint we've used is easy to wipe. Get whatever you want, it's your kitchen.

Your kitchen is so similar to my sisters. She has upstand and no splash back. She seems happy with it.

Thanks so much. 😊

Thanks to bad renovation timing coinciding with the start of Covid lockdowns, we used DIY removable wallpaper above our upstand as a temporary “make do” measure because all work and shopping had to stop. Three years later (!) we are finally getting around to removing a chimney breast to completely finalise the kitchen, including replastering, and I am fairly certain I will be using the same wallpaper again. The only difference is it will be professionally hung! We have received so many compliments and it’s been shockingly robust, even behind the hob. We used a greyish shiplap patterned wallpaper above a Carrera marble countertop and upstand, with white upper and pale grey lower cabinets.