Kitchen Tiling & Splashbacks in New Barn

New Barn's detached houses tend to have kitchens that have been extended and improved over the years — knocked-through walls connecting the original kitchen to a dining room, rear extensions adding space, the gradual evolution of a room that started as a back-of-house utility into the social centre of the house. The result is often a kitchen of real character but irregular geometry: the floor tile needs to accommodate a change of level at the original external wall, or the splashback behind the range cooker runs across a wall that was not designed with a tile job in mind.

Getting kitchen tiling right in these rooms — laying a floor that accounts for the room's transitions, cutting a splashback that sits correctly against kitchen units that were fitted at different times — requires someone who plans carefully before any tile is cut rather than solving problems as they emerge. Gee has tiled kitchens across the DA3 area — Longfield, Hartley, and New Barn — for a decade.

His approach to kitchen floors in houses like those in New Barn begins with understanding the whole space: where the dominant sightline is from the most-used entrance to the kitchen, where the grid should be centred to balance the cut tiles at each edge, and whether any transition in the floor level needs to be treated with a profiled edge rather than a raw cut. "He mapped out the kitchen with us to ensure we were happy before proceeding," wrote one customer — that pre-work discipline is what makes the finished floor look intentional rather than improvised.

For New Barn customers choosing between large-format porcelain and more traditional formats, Gee can advise on what suits the room's proportions and then help source the right tile through his Topps Tiles trade account or at Apex Tiles.