Red kettle on a wooden countertop with books, white brick wall with bird-shaped tiles, and a red wall clock showing 4:16.
A kitchen countertop with two stacked books, a red kettle, white cabinets, and a blue wall with decorative tiles featuring animals.

Charley Harper Subway Tile Kitchen

Charley Harper subway tile kitchen backsplash by Motawi Tileworks. (Read all about it by clicking here.)

Decorative tile featuring a geometric illustration of a bird with a red head, tan face, black eye, black beak, and a body with black and white stripes.

Tile featured in this project:

3x6 Woodpecker

A rectangular ceramic tile with a stylized Charley Harper blue jay illustration on a light cream background.

3x6 Blue Jay

A rectangular ceramic tile with a crackled white glaze, featuring an abstract geometric Charley Harper cardinal in red, black, and orange colors.

3x6 Cardinal

A vintage beige chipmunk, a minimalist Charley Harper design.

3x6 Chipmunk

A rectangular ceramic subway tile with an illustration of a squirrel holding a but in its mouth, rendered in Charley Harper's minimalist style.

3x6 Squirrel

Decorative ceramic tile with abstract geometric Charley Harper female cardinal in red, black, orange, and gold on a cream background.

3x6 Female Cardinal

A rectangular ceramic tile with a vintage Charley Harper illustration of yellow and brown birds on a white background.

3x6 Grosbeaks

A vintage Charley Harper owl on a white subway tile.

3x6 Owlet

Glazes featured in this project:

White tile with rounded corners.

5000 Bone