Published on June 19, 2026
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Buy Custom Splashbacks if you're renovating a kitchen or bathroom and want a panel cut to the exact millimetre — sockets, switches and all. It's ideal for homeowners chasing a specific colour or a custom printed design. Skip it if you just need a cheap, standard-size panel today.
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Most splashbacks are sold as flat rectangles, and the awkward bit — cutting holes for sockets, notching around your extractor hood, getting the length spot-on — gets dumped on you or your fitter. Custom Splashbacks flips that. They measure, design and laser-cut the panel to your exact kitchen before it ever leaves their Devon factory. You get a piece that drops into place and looks like it was always meant to be there.
Custom Splashbacks didn't start as a trend-chasing online shop. It grew out of more than 25 years of hands-on work with acrylic, glass and aluminium composite — the kind of experience you can't fake with a slick website.
The company is based in a working factory in Devon, and that matters more than it sounds. They're not reselling panels shipped in from a warehouse. They cut, print and build everything in-house.
What drove them was a simple frustration: too many splashbacks look great in a photo but fit badly in a real kitchen. Gaps around sockets. Edges that don't line up. Colours that wash out against the wall behind them.
So they invested in proper kit — CAD design facilities, laser cutting, CNC technology — to solve the fit problem at the source. The result is a brand obsessed with one thing: making a splashback that sits flush, looks sharp, and feels permanent. That obsession runs through everything they make.
Here's the part most buyers never think about until it goes wrong. Cheap acrylic splashbacks let the wall colour show through, so your bold navy ends up looking patchy and your crisp white looks grey near the plug socket.
Custom Splashbacks built a multi-layer precision fabrication process to fix exactly that. It starts with crystal-clear acrylic on the surface. Behind it sits a precision-printed design layer. Then — and this is the clever bit — a specialist light-blocking layer.
That blocking layer stops the wall behind from bleeding through. So the colour you choose is the colour you get, edge to edge, even over a dark or uneven wall. No surprises after it's mounted.
Every panel is hand-made using CAD-CAM technology. Your measurements go into the software, and the laser and CNC machines cut to them precisely. That means custom shapes around sockets, switches, extractor hoods and any other fixture you throw at them.
The acrylic itself is impact resistant and moisture resistant, and it's rated heat resistant for electric and induction hobs as long as you keep a 150mm minimum gap. So it's not just pretty — it's built for the splatter and steam of an actual working kitchen.
The range covers five core materials, and each suits a different kind of project. Acrylic Splashbacks are the everyday hero — lighter than glass, impact resistant, and where that multi-layer colour tech shines.
Glass Splashbacks give you that high-gloss, ultra-premium look for people who want the classic toughened-glass feel. Metal Splashbacks come in brushed and gloss finishes — perfect if you're going for an industrial or professional-kitchen vibe.
Then there are Printed Splashbacks, where you can upload your own image and turn a wall into a feature. Think a botanical print behind the hob, or a personal photo in a bathroom.
Matt Splashbacks round it out, including their Premium Pastel Matt collection for that soft, on-trend, non-reflective finish that's everywhere in modern kitchens right now.
Whatever you pick, the promise is the same: made to measure, cut to your exact dimensions, with one of the largest colour ranges in the industry to choose from.
If you've scrolled through kitchen inspiration lately, you've seen the shift. Glossy is out. Soft, chalky matt pastels are in — sage, blush, muted clay, dove grey.
Custom Splashbacks leaned into this with their Premium Pastel Matt range, and it's one of the most interesting things they make. A matt finish hides fingerprints and reduces glare, so you don't get that mirror-shine bouncing your downlights back at you while you cook.
The trick with matt acrylic is keeping the colour even and the surface consistent — cheap matt finishes can look blotchy or feel plasticky. Because these are printed and layered in-house with that light-blocking layer behind them, the pastel stays true and rich rather than washed-out.
Compare that to what you usually find on the high street: a handful of glossy standard colours, cut to fixed sizes. Here you're picking a specific pastel tone, cut to your wall, with holes already in place for your sockets.
It's the difference between a kitchen that looks fitted and one that looks furnished after the fact. For a renovation where the splashback is a feature, not an afterthought, that matters.
A custom-cut acrylic or glass panel is exactly the kind of thing that can arrive cracked if it's packed badly — and few things are more frustrating than a chipped corner on a bespoke piece.
Custom Splashbacks quality-test every product before it ships and pack them to survive the journey. They describe their packaging as brilliant for a reason: a bespoke panel that turns up damaged is a wasted panel, since it was cut for your kitchen and nobody else's.
That made-to-measure reality cuts both ways. You'll want to measure carefully and double-check your socket positions before ordering, because a custom cut isn't something you can casually return like a standard size. Take your time at the measuring stage, and the payoff is a panel that fits first time.
This is for homeowners mid-renovation who care how the finish looks — people matching a splashback to a specific colour scheme, tiling around tricky socket layouts, or wanting a printed design no one else has.
It's ideal if you've got an awkward space: an extractor hood to notch around, switches in odd spots, or a non-standard wall length. The precision cutting earns its keep here.
It's also great for anyone who wants a personal printed feature wall in a kitchen or bathroom.
Who should skip it? If you just need a cheap, standard-size panel for a rental and you don't care about exact fit, a flat-pack option from a DIY shed will do the job for less.
Custom Splashbacks sits at the premium end, and they don't pretend otherwise. You're paying for bespoke cutting, in-house fabrication, the multi-layer colour tech and a genuinely wide colour range — not a mass-produced rectangle.
So is it worth the extra? If your splashback is just functional wall protection, probably not. But if it's a visible feature in a kitchen you'll use for the next decade, the maths changes.
The value lives in the fit. A panel cut around your sockets and fixtures saves your fitter time and saves you the gappy, cobbled-together look that drags down an otherwise lovely kitchen. Spread across years of daily use, the premium is small. For a one-off rental fix, it isn't worth it — and that's the honest line.
Custom Splashbacks does one thing extremely well: it turns a measured wall into a panel that fits perfectly, looks the colour you actually chose, and stands up to a real kitchen.
The precision cutting around sockets and fixtures is the standout, and the multi-layer acrylic keeps colours true where cheaper panels fail. Add one of the widest colour ranges around plus custom printing, and you've got a strong choice for a serious renovation.
If you're a homeowner who wants a fitted, made-to-measure finish in a kitchen or bathroom — and you'll measure carefully — this is an easy recommend. Just don't buy it expecting flat-pack prices.