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Solid Wood Cabinets In a Variety of Colors & Styles Starting at $8,950
CA Licensed Contractor #947147
Tile is the last thing most people pick and the first thing anyone notices. It sits at eye level. It runs behind the range, and it decides whether your cabinets and counter look chosen or look collected. Kitchen Emporium sells tile and backsplash at wholesale pricing from the Chatsworth showroom on Devonshire, and our own crews set it as part of the installation. The median Chatsworth home was built in 1974, so plenty of kitchens here still carry original tile with wide, dark grout. Bring a cabinet door and a counter sample. Twenty minutes settles what photos never will.
Quick Takeaways
- A 6-inch backsplash is included in the $8,950 complete kitchen. Full height to the underside of the wall cabinets is the usual upgrade.
- Grout color changes how a tiled wall reads more than the tile itself does. Pick it in person, next to your counter.
- Full height behind the range with a short splash everywhere else is a legitimate way to spend less.
- Tile, sinks and hardware at wholesale pricing, installed by our own crews. CA Contractor License #947147.
The $8,950 kitchen includes a 6-inch splash, and full height is the upgrade
Every complete kitchen we install comes with a 6-inch backsplash — the short band of tile sitting on the counter and running its length. For many kitchens it’s enough. The upgrade almost everyone asks about is full height: tile carried from the counter to the underside of the wall cabinets, turning eighteen inches of painted drywall into a surface you wipe instead of repaint. That one change alters how a kitchen reads more than new hardware ever will. The median U.S. kitchen remodel cost $8,000 between 2021 and 2023, according to the 2023 American Housing Survey. Against that, going taller is a small line. Decide it before install day, not during.
Tile gets chosen against your counter and your cabinet doors, not on a screen
A screen lies about tile. It flattens the finish, warms the whites, and it never shows what a glossy face does when afternoon light crosses it sideways. So we put the sample in your hand, next to the actual quartz, granite, marble or butcher block you’re buying and next to the door style you picked, because those surfaces have to agree. A busy mosaic behind a busy quartz slab fights. Two patterns at the same volume, and the counter loses. Heavily veined slab? Keep the tile quiet.
Grout color is the decision people regret
Nobody believes this at first. White tile with white grout reads as one calm surface. The same tile with charcoal grout becomes a grid that announces every seam, and people who picked the grid from a photo often say later they wanted the surface. Go one shade off your tile, not three, unless the graphic look is the whole point. Behind a range, lighter grout shows grease sooner. The median American home was 44 years old in 2023, per the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, and the 1970s tile still sitting in local kitchens is dated by its wide dark joints more than by the tile itself.
Bathroom and laundry rooms are a wetter, tighter version of the same job
Bathrooms get water daily, in a smaller room, with less light. Small tile means more grout joints, and more joints mean more scrubbing in the one room where you notice scrubbing, so we push people toward a larger format on bath walls than they first ask for. Choose a vanity splash against the vanity finish itself; ours come in six: Greige Maple, Espresso Maple, Cinnamon Maple Glazed, Mahogany Maple Glazed, Pearl Vanity and Hazel Maple Glaze. Laundry rooms are easy. Tiling behind the washer costs little and ends the water-stain problem.
Tile lands near the end of the installation week
Order it early anyway. Tile goes in near the end — cabinets first, then the counters get templated and installed, and only then can the splash be scribed to what’s actually there instead of to a drawing. Most cabinet installations finish within a week once materials arrive, and ordering is the long part, which is why a tile choice left open in week one becomes the thing everyone waits on in week three. Same crew throughout, under CA Contractor License #947147.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much backsplash comes with the $8,950 complete kitchen?
A 6-inch backsplash is included, along with 20 linear feet of solid-wood cabinets, your choice of 10 quartz countertops and an 18-gauge stainless steel sink. Taller tile is quoted as an itemized upgrade before anything gets ordered.
Is a full-height backsplash worth the extra cost?
Behind the range, yes. That wall takes the grease and the steam, and tile wipes clean where painted drywall eventually gives up and needs repainting. On the rest of the run it’s a design call, not a durability one.
What grout color should I use with a white backsplash?
It depends what you want the wall to do. White grout keeps white tile reading as one quiet surface, while charcoal or mid-grey turns the same tile into a strong visible grid. See both in person first.
Can I tile full height behind the range and keep a short splash everywhere else?
Yes, and we suggest it often. It puts the tile where it works hardest and where people actually look, and it holds cost down on the stretches behind the toaster and the sink. Say so at the showroom and the quote reflects it.
Do you install bathroom and laundry room tile too?
We do. Vanity splashes, bathroom walls and the wall behind a washer are set by the same crews that tile our kitchens, on the same wholesale pricing. Sinks, hardware and vanities come from us as well.
Visit the Showroom or Book a Free Consultation
Come see the tile against real cabinet doors and real counter samples. That comparison takes twenty minutes and it saves people from the one choice they would otherwise have looked at every single day for the next decade. The showroom is at 21417 Devonshire Street in Chatsworth, at Devonshire and Canoga in the Ralphs plaza, open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring photos and a rough wall measurement. Or have us measure it, free.