Stylish Kitchen Wall Panelling You’ll Love
- Introduction
- Wall Panels for Kitchen Redecorating? 6 Top Benefits
- Kitchen wall panels protect your walls from damage and stains
- Wall panelling is versatile enough to create a range of styles
- Wall panels for kitchens offer homeowners a budget-friendly redesign option
- Kitchen wall panelling is super easy to install
- improve insulation and sound quality with kitchen panelling
- Panelling for kitchens is effortless to clean
- How to Choose the Right Kitchen Wall Paneling
- 6 Kitchen Wall Panelling Ideas
- Find Your Dream Kitchen Wall Panels with Tile Merchant
- Why Tile Merchant?
Introduction
When we think of kitchen design and decoration, we often tend to think of neutral walls and traditional tiles. But what if there was a whole new type of wall decoration you could use to give your kitchen and dining space a truly unique look?
Here at Tile Merchant—Ireland’s premier supplier of indoor and outdoor renovation materials—we pride ourselves on our selection of wall panels.
Our unique ranges of wall panels can help you to transform any and every aspect of your kitchen quickly, easily, and without breaking the bank.
This is a guide to kitchen panelling for both DIY enthusiasts and passionate designers.
We’ve created it to help our customers all across Ireland understand the qualities and benefits of kitchen wall panels, provide some ideas for how to install them, and to help our readers choose the right type of panel to suit their kitchen space, taste, and budget.
Check out some TikTok videos at the end of this article for more kitchen inspiration.
Wall Panels for Kitchen Redecorating? 6 Top Benefits
First things first, why choose wall panelling for a kitchen renovation in the first place?
Let’s take a look at the top 6 benefits of installing wall panels in your kitchen
Kitchen wall panels protect your walls from damage and stains
One of the biggest problems of installing any material in your kitchen is that kitchens are traditionally damp, dirty and messy spaces! Spills, splashes and burns happen all the time and can ultimately ruin your walls, leaving unsightly stains, steam or smoke damage in their wake.
Kitchen wall panels—waterproof and heatproof—protect your walls whilst remaining super easy to clean when those inevitable spills occur.
This makes panelling in kitchens ideal as a backsplash or for the decoration of islands and breakfast bars.
Wall panelling is versatile enough to create a range of styles
Like kitchen tiles, wall panels for kitchens come in a huge variety of shapes, textures, styles and colours—from natural-wood effects to traditional muted greys, blacks, whites and more.
This means that you have full creative control over the final look and feel of your kitchen/dining space—a space many of us spend a great deal of our time in, cooking, cleaning and eating!
Whether you’ve got traditional or modern tastes, maximalist or minimalist, colourful or muted, bold or subtle, there is almost always a kitchen wall panel with your name on it!
Check out our design tips down below for some more inspiration
Wall panels for kitchens offer homeowners a budget-friendly redesign option
Undeniably one of the main selling points of kitchen wall panels is their affordability.
Unlike natural wood interiors, timber cladding, expensive marble, stone, tiles or paint, the wall panels we stock are all priced affordably to suit a range of redesign budgets
Kitchen wall panelling is super easy to install
Another thing we really love about kitchen wall panelling is just how easy it is to install!
Our panels are designed with a tongue-and-groove structure (sometimes known as slide-and-click), which allows even the least-practiced DIYer to put up panelling easily.
All you need to do is stick your panels to the existing kitchen wall surface using a high-quality bonding agent, and then slide and click each subsequent panel into the one before, locking it into place.
Just don’t forget to stock up on matching wall panel end pieces and dado rails to complete the look and cover those exposed edges!
improve insulation and sound quality with kitchen panelling
We all know just how cold it can get during Ireland’s long autumns and winters, not to mention how noisy our families, pets, and—sometimes—our neighbours can be. Which is yet another reason wall panels make such a great addition to the modern kitchen.
All of the wall panels we stock add a degree of insulation to the home, helping to keep kitchen and dining spaces cosier and reducing your heating bills whilst they do! Moreover, our Acoustic Wall Panels can even reduce unwanted noise wherever they’re installed, to give you peace of mind and, well, some more peace in general!
Panelling for kitchens is effortless to clean
Finally, we would be remis if we didn’t mention just how easy our panels are to clean and maintain.
Unlike real wood walls, our kitchen panelling doesn’t require yearly coating or painting. Instead, once installed they are essentially good to go!
All they’ll require is the odd wipe with a damp cloth and some soap or cleaning spray to remove any splashes, spills, stains or marks, and they’ll continue looking as good as new for many years to come.
Looking for Kitchen Wall Panelling in Ireland? Order Free Wall Panel Samples today.
How to Choose the Right Kitchen Wall Paneling
Here at Tile Merchant, we weren’t satisfied with stocking just one type of wall panel. In fact, we couldn’t stop at two, either.
We stock three, entirely unique, comprehensive and diverse range of kitchen wall panels for you to choose from. Each has its own properties and benefits to explore. Let’s dive in!
MDF Wood Panelling
First up is our versatile range of Woodlux wall panelling for kitchens, created using ultra-strong foil-wrapped MDF which makes it a light but durable material with a dependably long lifespan.
Our wood panelling range also comes in the widest variety of styles of any of our kitchen panelling solutions, with MDF kitchen panelling available in wide tongue-and-groove blocks, slats, or in flowing, bevelled waves.
Woodlux wall panelling for kitchens is also stocked in a variety of modern neutral tones and more traditional natural wood-effects so you can choose the panel which best suits your taste.
Acoustic Wall Panels
Acoustic wall panels for Ireland’s kitchens are a unique type of panelling designed to improve the sound quality of your interior spaces.
With foam inserts between each slat of our gorgeous acoustic wall panels, unwanted noise is reduced wherever the panels are installed, whilst the deeper, richer, more desirable sounds of your home are retained.
Acoustic kitchen panelling traps echoes and vibrations to reduce unwanted, tinny sound—making them ideal for noisy kitchens full of barking dogs, meowing cats, screeching kids or rowdy dinner parties!
You can reliably restore the privacy and sanctuary of your kitchen and dining room with acoustic wall panels from Tile Merchant, available in a variety of colours and styles.
Slatted Wall Panelling
Last but not least are our most luxurious wall panels—slat wall panelling. Composite slatted kitchen panels are for the homeowner with a love for the natural aesthetic charm, beauty, and relaxing properties of real wood.
Made from wood composite, our extensive range of slatted wall panels for the kitchen and dining area carry all the grace of natural wood without breaking the bank or requiring intensive upkeep.
Indeed, all of our kitchen wall panels are designed to be easy to clean and maintain.
Slat wall panels are available from Tile Merchant in a wide range of natural wood-effects—from chestnut and mahogany to oak, driftwood, teak, and more.
Marble Effect Panelling
When it comes to kitchen design, finding the perfect balance between style and functionality can be a challenge.
UV marble sheets are a modern solution that combines the luxurious appearance of natural marble with the durability and ease of maintenance needed for busy kitchens.
These innovative sheets are crafted from high-quality materials and coated with a UV-resistant finish, ensuring they remain vibrant and scratch-free over time.
With a wide range of colors and patterns available, UV marble sheets can elevate your kitchen aesthetics while providing a practical surface that withstands daily wear and tear. Whether you’re renovating your kitchen or starting from scratch, UV marble sheets are an excellent choice for creating a stunning kitchen that reflects your personal style.
6 Kitchen Wall Panelling Ideas
Let’s finish this DIY renovation guide to kitchen panelling with a quick look at some of the most popular design options and wall panel installations.
Just remember, these are only ideas—the possibilities for kitchen wall panel transformations are endless and anything you can dream of you can create!
- Islands: Using panelling for kitchen islands is a great idea. The underside of islands and breakfast bars often goes forgotten when it comes to kitchen decoration, but with the quick and easy application of some quality wall panels, you can add an entirely new dimension of flow, texture, shape and colour to help your island stand out as a gorgeous feature of the space.
- Backsplashes: Perhaps one of the most practical and popular kitchen panelling design ideas is to install wall panels behind the stovetop to act as a stylish backsplash. When choosing wall panels for backsplashes, make sure you opt for a waterproof and heat-resistant product like our MDF foil-wrapped panelling, which is also super easy to clean!
- Feature walls: Wall panelling always makes for a nice feature wall thanks to the unique slatted or wide-grooved textures available, adding extra flow and energy to a space more traditionally associated with practicality, work and chores. You can create kitchen accent walls to stand on their own, or incorporate your kitchen feature wall into the space by installing shelving, storage, or hanging plants and artwork directly on the panelling.
- Dining areas: Zhuzh-up your dining space, however small or roomy, by ‘zoning’ the area with wall panelling. This means creating a cosy wood-effect nook around your dining table and chairs to help make the space feel separate and distinct from the kitchen—adding extra charm and warmth to your next dining experience!
- Storage: Kitchen panels cut to size can easily be used to hide storage spaces like cupboards, walk-in larders, fridges and freezers. By using kitchen panelling to hide storage, you keep ugly white goods out of sight and create a kitchen which flows better and feels more spacious.
- Fill empty spaces: And speaking of spacious... Any empty, redundant spaces in your kitchen, like the exposed walls above floating cupboards or below countertops, can easily be made much more attractive with the quick and simple addition of some wall panelling—ultimately helping you to tie these redundant areas into the overall flow of your kitchen or dining space!
Find Your Dream Kitchen Wall Panels with Tile Merchant
The beauty of wall panels for kitchen renovations is that there are so many different styles, wood effects and non-wood colours, textures, types, and price points to choose from that there really is something for everyone.
Whether you want to create a Scandi-inspired all-wood kitchen or prefer a more modern and minimalist approach; whether you like bold colours or muted, natural tones; whether you want a practical, easy-clean backsplash or need to uplift the tired and faded design of your kitchen walls—whatever your dream kitchen, Tile Merchant has the wall panel to bring it to life.
Shop the full Kitchen Wall Panel range online today, and make sure to order a free cut sample of your favourite panels to try before you buy.
Alternatively, pop into one of our three fully stocked showrooms—located in Ashbourne, Coolock, and Ballymount—to browse the range in person.
Thanks for reading, we hope to see you soon!
Why Tile Merchant?
Tile Merchant Ireland offers extremely competitive pricing on our entire range of tiles and likewise.
Tile Merchant stocks a huge range of wall and floor tiles and our prices are competitive for retail and trade. Our stock is widely available in our tile stores in Dublin and Ashbourne (Co. Meath) which are open 7 days a week.
Alternatively, if you’d prefer to shop our tiles online, we can supply you with samples delivered for free.
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Article written by Calum
Cal Bannerman is a freelance writer, editor, podcaster and voice actor from the Scottish Borders. He runs the storytelling podcast "Stories from the Hearth" and lives in a wee Glasgow Flat with his partner and their cat".