10 Top Backsplashes to Pair With Concrete Counters

Decisions, decisions. You’ve fallen in love with and committed to a countertop material, and now you’re trying to figure out the backsplash. In this series we’ll be exploring the best countertop and backsplash pairings, and we’re kicking it off by finding suitable mates for concrete counters. Concrete can have many different qualities depending on whether it’s polished, sealed, tinted, filled and more. But no matter what variation you pour, concrete has inherent qualities that make it a great match with the following backsplash options.

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More concrete. Extending the concrete of the countertop to the backsplash creates a simple, seamless look. In this farmhouse-style kitchen, the concrete is a modern update on soapstone (we’ll get to soapstone in a future story in this series).

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Stainless steel. Sleek and reflective, stainless steel gives a kitchen with concrete countertops a gleaming industrial look. Think shiny new commercial kitchen or a dash of food-laboratory style.


Brick. Concrete is a material with a strong industrial feel. Pairing it with brick brings in an 1800s warehouse vibe.

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Subway tile. Subway tile lends a vintage industrial look when combined with concrete countertops. This pairing can work in kitchens ranging from Victorian style to contemporary. If you want a more polished, traditional look, go for crisp white subway tile and white grout. If you’d like to go more industrial, use slightly off-white tile with gray grout. The darker grout has a bonus: It’s easier to keep looking clean.


Penny round tile. Because concrete tends to have a uniform look from afar, you can use a busier, small-scale tile pattern with it. It’s tough to pull this off with counter materials that have busier patterns. The pairing of textures in this kitchen is so nice that it makes me want to jump into the photo and run my hands across both the counter and the wall.


Curvy ceramic tile. Concrete counters provide a great base that lets dynamic grout lines work some design magic. Again, this is tougher to get away with if your countertops have a busier pattern. Here the curves of Pratt & Larson’s elongated ogee tiles create pleasing graphic grout lines.


Graphic black and white ceramic tile. Bold black stripes strongly contrast the white tiles, while the concrete brings the shades of gray in between.


Glass mosaic. A wonderful option with concrete countertops is that you can incorporate and expose glints of recycled glass in it. Using glass backsplash tiles accentuates these glinting details.

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This cast-in-place countertop has also been customized with inlaid pieces. It has exposed recycled glass and inlaid steel accents that pick up on like materials in the room, including the glass mosaic of the backsplash and the metal of the dramatic vent hood.

Concrete pigment: Silver Smoke, Davis Colors


Stone. This natural material is concrete’s first or second cousin — limestone is an ingredient in concrete, and depending on how you fill and finish your countertops, you may chose to expose the tiny stones in the aggregate. This split-face stone backsplash pleasingly contrasts the smooth, crushed-up version of stone in the concrete countertops.


No backsplash. A popular option with concrete counters is to go backsplash-less. Minimalists love the strong lines that a thick concrete countertop makes possible, and often like to let them stand on their own.

Now it’s your turn: Do you have a concrete countertop in your kitchen? If so, please add to this list by sharing your backsplash choice in the Comments.

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