Office Manager

Bedrooms & More’s new flagship store is located in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle at the corner of 4^th Ave NE and NE 45^th street.  The new five level, 24,000 square foot store has a grand entry that opens up to four stories of retail space where customers can enjoy spectacular views of Seattle while shopping for environmentally friendly mattresses and bedding accessories.  The basement level provides added showroom and storage space while the fifth level houses a private offices and community spaces.  The roof supports two gardens, a large PV array and mechanical equipment for the VRF cooling system.  The structural system for the retail levels is composed of tongue and groove decking over a grid of glulam beams and girders that are supported by glulam columns and wood stud walls.  The floor for the private living space above is conventionally framed with plywood sheathing over wood I-joists.  Structural steel elements were used at isolated locations as needed.  The main floor is framed with a reinforced concrete slab supported by concrete columns and perimeter concrete basement walls and the lateral system is composed of plywood sheathed walls and concrete shear walls.

Architect: Stuart Silk Architects