Tile and backsplashes
Tile and backsplashes chosen with the stone, not after it
The Tile Works half of the name: backsplashes coordinated with your countertop, plus tile supply and installation for walls and floors.
Why the backsplash gets decided with the counter
The wall behind a countertop is the first surface your eye lands on in a kitchen, and it has to agree with the stone below it, the paint beside it, the floor under it and the cabinet doors around it. Pick the countertop first and the tile later, and you end up matching a finished slab to whatever is left on the shelf.
The counter in the photo shows the idea: speckled beige and white granite with a gas cooktop, and a finished tumbled-stone backsplash on the wall The tumbled stone has a textured, worn-edge face and the granite has a fine speckle, so the wall and the counter read as two different surfaces that belong together.
Coordinating all of that is the part Rick Coon pointed to when he talked about Mary Coon in a 2003 Stone Business profile of the shop: she helps people tie the backsplash and countertops to the walls, floors and cabinets. In 2025, customers were still naming Connie as the person who helped them settle on material and pattern.
Speckled beige and white granite counter with a gas cooktop and a finished tumbled-stone backsplash on the wall
The Tile Works half of the name
Raccoon Stone & Tile Works is a tile business as much as a stone one. Founder Rick Coon came up through masonry, laying brick and concrete block, then ceramic tile, and only then setting stone. The business has been registered since 1998, and the tile side is part of how its founder came up.
That background shows in how the work is divided. The shop supplies tile and installs it for walls and floors, and it sets backsplashes to sit with the countertop it just cut. Because templating, fabrication and installation all stay in-house, the countertop and the backsplash are planned by the same shop.
Raccoon is Rick's own nickname, not a mascot, and every business he has run has carried it. The shop serves Byron, Warner Robins and Macon from the GA-247 Connector. Questions before you drive out? The number is (478) 956-2222.
Setting the tile so it finishes the job
Order matters on a backsplash. The countertop goes in first, then the tile is set down to meet the stone, so the joint between them is tight and even. That joint is normally filled with flexible caulk rather than grout, because a counter and a wall move a little at different rates and rigid grout would crack.
A reviewer in 2025 praised the shop for working well with the company supplying materials for other features of the kitchen, and for coordinating at each step. A backsplash is one of those features, and the tile, the stone and the walls all have to land in the right order.
Aftercare is simple. Wipe the tile with mild cleaner, and keep an eye on the caulk line along the counter and the grout lines near the cooktop and sink. If caulk fails or a seam opens, the shop repairs it promptly, so a small gap doesn't turn into a water problem behind the wall.
Raccoon Stone & Tile. Templating, cutting and installation done in-house. Call (478) 956-2222.