Play Kitchen Remodel

Bean's big Christmas gift from Santa this year was the play kitchen from Ikea along with all the accessories (pots, pans, utensils, plates, bowls, cups and play food).  Here he is on Christmas morning playing with it for the first time.

In the first picture, Bean is discovering the play kitchen for the first time Christmas morning. He is so amazed, he barely knows where to begin!  In the second picture, Bean has found his groove (along with his chef hat and apron) and is diligently cooking up what appears to be some apples in a skillet. 

While the kitchen is definitely awesome and Bean loves it, it is causing a bit of a problem.  We are starting to get scuff marks on the wall behind the kitchen from where the spoons hang and bang against the wall (along with Bean hitting the wall with the pots and pans).  So the wife and I determined that Nate would need a back splash to 1) to protect our walls from unnecessary scuffs and 2) to make his kitchen 10 times more awesome. 

I started looking into inexpensive options and found a very simple solution.  We will install a piece of backer-board covered in wallpaper.  I want to find some wall paper that resembles tile, similar to this image I found:

This is a simple contact paper with what looks like square, green tiles.  Attach the wallpaper to the backer-board and then attach the backer-board to the kitchen.  The idea would be like this:

Step 1 would be to attach a tile-like wallpaper or contact paper to the backer-board in the appropriate size to cover the back of the play kitchen.











Step 2 is the final touch of adding the backer-board with the attached tiled wallpaper to the kitchen so the final results looks something like this.















I anticipate the overall project to be fairly inexpensive (depending on where I can source a small amount of contact paper or wall paper).  I'll do a little more research on this one and see what I can come up with on sourcing the materials.  But this project will need to wait until "Operation Drafty" is complete.