Steffen Furniture

Steffen Furniture is a mattress store and furniture retailer in Spencer, Iowa. The store carries living room and casual furniture, bedroom sets, dining room sets, home entertainment furniture, occasional tables, rugs, lamps and accessories, along with carpet and rugs, wood flooring, hard surfaces and outdoor furniture. Its design staff works with customers on paint color, window treatments, floor coverings, and fine hardwood and upholstered furnishings, using space planning, color choice, style preferences and comfort options, and also handles home staging for spec homes and other real estate projects. Design services are complimentary with purchase. Upholstery fabrics and hardwood table colors and finishes can be customized, and pieces not on the floor can be special ordered. The store also stocks cleaners, polishes and furniture accessories, and rents out a Host Carpet Cleaner. It holds a rating of 4.30.

Steffen Furniture opened in 1952 and has served Spencer for two generations. It began at 406 N. Grand Ave. and moved north in 1965 to 420 N. Grand Ave., the historic Art Deco Redfield building on the southeast corner of 5th and Grand. The building has since been expanded to the north, south and upward. The store occupies four complete floors of merchandise, and its buyers attend the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, North Carolina and the World Market Center in Las Vegas. It is one of the longest-running family businesses in the Spencer area.

The store sits on Grand Avenue at East 5th Street, about a tenth of a mile from the Spencer Public Library, the Clay County Sheriffs Office and the Spencer Police Department, and a short distance from 1st Avenue East.

Customers have given Steffen Furniture a positive rating, and the business has served the Spencer area since 1952 as one of its longest-running family-owned stores.