Kitchen Wall Tiles Design
13 Backsplash Ideas for Dry & Wet Kitchens

Kitchen wall tiles gallery: 13 concepts

Each design below is an illustrative concept render of one kitchen wall finished in tiles. They are grouped by style, by dry or wet kitchen, and by home type. Tap any image to enlarge it. Every card links to the ClickBina guide that covers the tile or the work behind that look.

StyleAllClassicDry kitchenModernWet kitchenHeritage & patternIndustrial

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13 designs shown

These are illustrative concept designs created to show kitchen wall tile options. They are not completed ClickBina projects. We lay and replace kitchen wall tiles as part of our renovation work, and your kitchen is assessed and quoted to its own walls, cabinets and cooking habits.

More galleries: browse all design ideas by area of the house, from cabinets and kitchens to porches and grilles.

How to choose kitchen wall tiles

Start with how you cook. A dry kitchen that sees light cooking and reheating can carry almost any wall tile, including matt and textured ones. A wet kitchen where the family fries and stir-fries every day needs a wall that can be scrubbed often: glazed tiles, a grout that does not stain easily and tiles taken high enough to catch the splash.

• Glossy or matt. Glossy glazed tiles wipe clean most easily and bounce light around a dark kitchen. Matt tiles look softer but hold grease, so they suit the dry kitchen better than the hob wall of a wet kitchen.
• Grout colour. Pale grout looks crisp but shows oil; mid or dark grey hides it. Near the cooker, epoxy grout resists staining far better than cement grout.
• Where the tiles stop. Most dry kitchens tile from the worktop to the underside of the wall cabinets. Wet kitchens and kitchens without wall cabinets are often tiled up to the ceiling.
• Size and pattern. Large tiles mean fewer joints to clean but need a flat wall. Small tiles and patterns such as herringbone or hexagon add character and more joints.
• Order of work. The backsplash is usually tiled after the worktop is fitted, so the tiles sit neatly on the top.

ClickBina's tile design gallery shows tiles across the whole house; this gallery stays on the kitchen wall.

Kitchen wall tile types compared

Quick pick: dry kitchen or wet kitchen

Worktops, floors, grout and the rest of the kitchen

This gallery covers the tiled wall. For the rest of the kitchen, see the kitchen design gallery for cabinets and layouts, the wet and dry kitchen guide for which zone gets which surfaces, and the stainless steel worktop guide if the wet kitchen top is being replaced too.

If the old tiles are still firmly fixed, the guide to tiling over existing tiles explains when a new layer can go on without hacking, and the guide to wall tiles popping or falling off explains what to check if they are not.

Practical limits before you retile a kitchen wall

• Check the old wall. Tap the existing tiles. Hollow or loose tiles have to come off, and a damp wall has to be dried and fixed first, or the new tiles will fail the same way.
• Sockets and switches. Plan their positions in the tile layout so cuts fall neatly, and keep power points away from the sink and the hob.
• Cabinets come off. Retiling behind existing wall cabinets usually means taking them down and refitting them, so allow for that in the quote.
• Heat behind the hob. Use tiles and adhesive suited to the heat and steam behind a gas cooker, and seal any joint between tiles and another material.
• Strata rules. In condos, hacking hours and debris removal follow the management's rules.

What kitchen wall tiling costs

ClickBina's tile design guide gives supply-and-lay rates by tile grade: ceramic at RM10 – RM18 per sq ft, porcelain at RM18 – RM35 per sq ft and mosaic at RM20 – RM45 per sq ft, with about RM2 – RM5 per sq ft extra labour for large-format tiles (indicative Klang Valley ranges for 2026).

The grout types guide puts epoxy grout at about RM1 – RM3 per sq ft extra over normal grout. Hacking off old tiles, removing and refitting wall cabinets, and moving sockets are separate lines, so ask for each to be listed on the quote.

How ClickBina can help

We lay and replace kitchen wall tiles as part of our renovation work, from a short backsplash to a full-height wet kitchen wall, and we can replace the worktop and cabinets in the same job. WhatsApp us your job details for a quote: the length of the wall, dry or wet kitchen, and the look from this page you like. ClickBina is an experienced KL & Selangor contractor, and we reply within the hour with next steps. The price we agree is a flat price with no hidden charges.

Sources & methodology

• ClickBina tile design guide — supply-and-lay rates by tile grade and the large-format labour add.
• ClickBina grout types guide — the extra cost of epoxy grout.
• ClickBina guides to tiling over old tiles and to popping wall tiles — when old tiles can stay.

About the images: every image on this page is an illustrative concept design generated to show a kitchen wall tile option. Captions describe what each render shows. RM figures are quoted unchanged from the ClickBina guides named above, indicative Klang Valley ranges for 2026.