Mission Statement: It's been our pleasure to serve the flooring needs of the greater Knoxville area for 70 years! We’re your family-owned, neighborhood flooring experts. Drop by and let us help you choose the perfect flooring for your home and lifestyle. Whether you’re looking for new carpet, hardwood floors, ceramic tile, vinyl, laminates, or area rugs. Frazier's Carpet One has got you covered!

Community Involvement:

As a local family-owned business, Frazier's takes giving back seriously and are proud to both support and actively raise money for Senior Companions, Girl Talk, Young Life, and RUF.

Our Story

In 1945, like countless other veterans, 18-year-old Charlie Frazier, and his father, 43-year-old C.M. Frazier returned home to Knoxville from World War II. During those post-war years, as both the textile and railroad industries began to disappear from Knoxville, young Charlie found it hard to keep work. In an act of desperation, Charlie borrowed $800 from a downtown loan shark. In turn, he bought floor-sanding equipment, turned his ’47 Pontiac sedan into a flatbed hauler, and went into the hardwood floor sanding business.

And so, in 1953, Frazier’s Carpet One Floor & Home was born.

C.M. Frazier thought it was all a “dern fool notion,” but Charlie made a go of it and managed to pay the loan shark off. Soon, C.M. left his job at Brookside Mills and joined Charlie. Very quickly, the both of them, father and son, were managing a small fleet of hardwood floor-sanding crews. In 1956, Charlie’s 9-year-old son, Ken, started sanding floors with his father after school, on weekends, and during the summer.

In 1960, C.M. passed away. Ken dropped out of the University of Tennessee 6 years later, at Charlie’s encouragement, traveled to St. Louis to learn the process for “pouring” Sand Cora decorative industrial flooring. However, before father and son (Charlie and Ken) could expand their business beyond the boundaries of hardwood, Ken was drafted into the Army. At 19 years of age, Ken served a tour of duty in Vietnam. His tour landed him in the heart of the Mekong Delta and the Thet Offensive. Ken received a citation of honor and valor from the South Vietnamese government for his actions during the Thet Offensive.

Ken’s son, Kevin, was born in 1967, while Ken was still in Vietnam. Upon his return home to Knoxville, Ken found his father Charlie still itching to expand their business. In 1966, the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) approved carpet for use in new homes. In 1967, with nylon broadloom carpet still in its infancy, Charlie and Ken made the decision, at the encouragement of a builder they worked with, to expand to the carpet business.

In 1968, Frazier’s opened their first retail store in the West Haven Shopping Center. Twice a week, Ken would make 4 a.m. carpet runs to Dalton with his own son, Kevin (3 years old at the time), curled up on the front seat of the old truck. Not only were most of Dalton’s carpet mills still using converted chicken houses as manufacturing plants but back in Knoxville, Ken and Charlie were still warehousing their carpet in Charlie’s garage on Middlebrook Pike and their pad in Ken’s garage on Chisolm Trail.

In 1969, Frazier’s broke ground on the Western Avenue building they still inhabit today. A few years later Frazier’s decision to position itself as an “everything for the floor” store, offering, on top of carpet and hardwood, ceramic, linoleum, vinyl, and area rugs!

Ken’s son Kevin now runs the business and Frazier’s Carpet One proudly stands on a reputation for quality and value that’s been four generations in the making.

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