Homemakers Furniture Flagship Showroom

Positioned in the fast-growing Park Place development in Tiffin, Iowa — midway along the I-380 corridor between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City — the new Homemakers Furniture showroom marks the second store for the family-operated Iowa retailer. Conceived as a warm and inviting environment where customers can fully experience Homemakers’ products, the building turns to mass timber to do something a big-box retail shell rarely does: feel domestic at the scale of 220,000 square feet.

The two-story showroom is a hybrid mass timber and steel structure, sitting alongside a larger steel-framed warehouse facility. Its primary structural system features dowel-laminated timber floor and roof panels with glulam beams and HSS steel columns, laid out on a generous 40-foot grid. At the heart of the building, the prominent gabled roof and a central atrium create an open, bright, double-height space framed by 80’-long hybrid timber-steel trusses.