Here on our website, and at every one of our seven valley showrooms, you’ll
discover Arizona’s largest selection of high quality, high-fashion, name brand
area rugs and flooring.
Soon you’ll become acquainted with some of the most experienced and most knowledgeable
flooring professionals around. Each member of our sales team averages more than
15 years experience in the flooring industry.
You can also look forward to enjoying world-class customer service, the kind our
customers rank right up there with the best they have ever experienced.
But beyond our wall-to-wall capabilities, we deliver something rare and precious
-- one measurement none of our competitors can match. Baker Bros. offers you…
More trust per square foot.
It’s trust we’ve earned, by serving the local community for over 60
years and providing this region with the finest, most fashionable flooring products.
(So fashionable it has become our motto: “Where Fashion Meets Flooring”.)
It’s trust we’ve created, through employees who believe customer service
is a culture, not a department; people dedicated to doing whatever it takes to make
things right. Because we and our families live here with you.
It’s also trust returned, by the generations of Arizona customers who continue
to come back to us because of our genuine caring, knowledge sharing and personal
involvement.
At Baker Bros. you never go it alone.
And it’s trust recognized, with an unmatched customer satisfaction rating
and by global brand leaders like DuPont® Stainmaster® who have chosen Baker
Bros. as Arizona’s only authorized Stainmaster® Flooring Center.
We also carry only the highest quality, most trusted brands in stone flooring.
Your investment in stone flooring for your home requires doing business with people
who have the highest marks for honesty and integrity.
Baker Bros. delivers on both. And no other flooring company around here can match
us when it comes to life’s most important measurement: trust.
It starts right here, right now. In the sections that follow you can trust us to
share all we know about stone flooring. So please continue.
Why build with natural stone? For a number of solid, natural reasons.
Natural stone is strong and stable to live with. It exudes a rich, organic, beautiful
surface and has a confident, timeless “presence” in any room.
Go ahead -- rub your hand across any natural stone product. Can you feel the eons
of time it took to produce this natural wonder of Mother Earth?
It’s a fact. The formative process for natural stone began millions of years
ago, deep beneath the surface of the earth.
A combination of heat and pressure created blocks of natural stone, including granite,
marble, travertine, limestone, and slate.
As the earth's crust began to grow and erode, it pushed minerals up from its core,
forming massive rock deposits, which we refer to as “quarries”.
Walk across a natural stone floor and tread on the same material quarried and constructed
by ancient people of nobility and notoriety.
From ancient monuments like the pyramids in Egypt and the majestic Greek and Roman
temples, to the great civilizations of India and China, natural stone has been an
important part of architecture throughout history.
It is the world’s oldest building material -- imagine its beauty and elegance
in your new home or remodeling project.
How old? In 2500 B.C., Djoser’s Step Pyramid in Egypt, the first structure
to be made entirely of natural stone, was constructed using huge blocks of granite
and limestone.
During that time, natural stone was considered too opulent for average homes and
was found only in temples, palaces, government buildings, or in the homes of the
very wealthy.
Today, natural stone quarries are found in many countries throughout the world such
as Italy, China, Spain, India, Canada, Mexico and also here in the United States.
Recent advances in the stone industry’s equipment technology have greatly
impacted the process of extracting stone from the quarry and installing it in a
home. Maybe your home.
Modern tools can accomplish this with such speed and efficiency that now natural
stone is accessible to all and is beloved for its durability, personality and aesthetics.
Indeed, nothing compares to the beauty of natural stone, and nothing can create
pride quicker than when you walk into your home with a natural stone floor.
Count on “oohs and ahs” from your friends and neighbors, too.
And while it is typically more expensive than ceramic tile and requires greater
maintenance, natural stone will virtually always increase your home’s resale
value. That’s another important consideration when shopping.
Today, there is a large selection of natural stone to choose from, and we will be
showing you and explaining about each stone family in detail.
In these sections on Natural Stone you can count on learning about granite, the
hardest and densest stone, marble, known for its rich, luxurious quality, limestone,
a softer, more porous stone, and the popular travertine.
We will also take an informative look at slate and tumbled stone, America’s
favorites in rustic settings.
As a side note, you should be aware of a product called Manufactured Stone. (Also
called Agglomerate Stone.) It’s a synthetic stone product that can be used
for flooring and you can learn more about it in the How It’s Made section.
We invite you to join us as we present the Natural Stone story, and, who knows,
it just might have a storybook ending – as the flooring solution for the way
you live.