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Custom Tile · Tri-State OH / KY
Custom Tile Showers,
Custom Tile Showers,
Built Like Heirlooms.
Two decades in construction, full-time on remodeling since 2014. We design, source, and install one shower surround at a time across the Ohio & Kentucky tri-state — no more than four to six projects a year, by deliberate choice.
Two Decades in the Trade
Two decades of construction experience, focused full-time on remodeling and tile work since 2014.
Tri-State Coverage
Serving Lawrence & Boyd counties — Ashland, Ironton, Russell, Wheelersburg and the towns between.
In-Home Design Consult
We bring tile, stone and grout samples to your house. No showroom round-trips required.
1-Year Workmanship Warranty
Every install is backed by a written one-year workmanship warranty. No fine print, no fuss.
Signature Work · 2020–2025
A selected portfolio of recent surrounds.
We are deliberately small. Each project below was tiled by Joshua Thompson and Chris Parker — a two-person crew, often over four to six weeks on a single bathroom. Hover for detail.
The Process · Three Steps, Six to Eight Weeks
How a Tile Surrounds bathroom comes together.
We don't rush, and we don't take on more than four to six projects a year. The trade-off is craft you can run a fingernail across without catching.
Design & Selection
We bring tile, stone, grout and fixture samples to your kitchen table and refine a single, considered scheme. You approve a drawing before a single demo bag is ordered.
Installation
We tile every surround ourselves — same two faces every morning, one job at a time. One-year written workmanship warranty when we're done.
Service Areas · Tri-State
Tile work across the Ohio & Kentucky tri-state.
Based on the Ohio side of the river, working both banks. Within roughly a 40-mile radius of Ashland, KY.
Active Service City
Ohio · Lawrence County & Scioto
Ironton, OH
South Point, OH
Chesapeake, OH
Wheelersburg, OH
Franklin Furnace, OH
Lawrence County, OH
Kentucky · Boyd & Greenup Counties
Ashland, KY
Russell, KY
Flatwoods, KY
Wurtland, KY
Greenup, KY
Boyd County, KY
Don't see your town? We sometimes travel further for the right project — give us a call.
Why Tile Surrounds
A division built around one room, done well.
Tile Surrounds is the specialty tile division of Thompson Parker Builders — narrowed, by design, to do one thing as well as anyone in the tri-state.
Tile Surrounds is run by Joshua Thompson and Chris Parker — the two-person specialty tile crew inside Thompson Parker Builders. Josh has been in construction off and on for two decades and has been remodeling full-time since 2014. Together with Chris, he runs the tile arm of the business as a deliberate, narrow practice: bathroom surrounds, mudset showers, and the stone and tile work that gets harder to find every year.
We carry tile and stone samples in the truck. We pencil-draw every layout before the first cut. We grout by hand. And we keep the schedule short on purpose — four to six projects a year — because the alternative is a kind of work neither of us would want in our own house.
“We say no to more jobs than we say yes to. That's how we keep the quality where it belongs.” — Joshua Thompson · Co-Founder
Schedule a Consultation
Let's measure your bathroom.
In-home consultations are free and unhurried. We typically book the next available consult slot within a week.
