Want a Bit of Flamboyance with a Mosaic Backsplash?

Bring this ancient craft into your kitchen with a mosaic backsplash that will wow all who enter. You don't have to be from the Greco-Roman-Ottoman empire to enjoy the beauty of mosaic. You can be from the twenty-first century in America.

Flea Market Brainstorming

When you're looking for a mosaic kitchen backsplash but don't quite know where to begin, take a look at eBay. It's a great place to get initial ideas about what might be "out there." You might even find something you love!

Where to Buy

The word "mosaic" oozes ancient doesn't it? Images come to mind of porticos, baths and other rooms of an aristocratic home unearthed by archeologists baring splendid mosaic artwork. But it's not quite a lost art as old as it is. There are those in the Old World - technically those parts of the world known in the 1500's - that still practice this amazing and beautiful art. Phoenician Arts is one of those preserving this age-old art form. Those who remember their world history will place the Phoenicians at or near where present-day Lebanon is located at the east end of the Mediterranean. Shipping to the United States and elsewhere, Phoenican Arts is in its third generation of producing hand made mosaics. In a time when stores come and go, it's nice to discover a source that has a timelessness of meandering through multiple generations of operation. Look for their kitchen related mosaic backsplash items when you visit.

Bringing this ancient art into our times from the New World vantage point is Tiles by Design from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Of their mosaic backsplashes for the kitchen, I particularly favor the works that have food or drink visual theme that look out beyond into an outdoor vista. There's something liberating and releasing about those images that would be fun to have as an artwork in the home.

How to Search for a Mosaic Backsplash

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