Hex Mosaic Kitchen Backsplash

A marble-look hexagon mosaic that gives a compact kitchen some texture without feeling busy.

Mesh-backed mosaics are quick to lay but easy to get wrong, because the seams between sheets can show as a faint grid. In this compact kitchen, the backsplash is one of the first things you see from the front hall, so those seams needed to disappear.

We dry-fitted the sheets, adjusted individual tiles by hand at each seam and cut around the outlets one piece at a time. A soft grey grout brought out the shape of the hexagons without making the wall look busy.