Olympic Mattress Direct

Where: 13 Ruth’s Place, Carlsborg

Phone: 360-912-1312

Hours: Call for an appointment

“There’s a bed for every back,” said Chris Jensen, owner of Olympic Mattress Direct, and he wants put each of his customers on a mattress that’s personalized to their individualized sleeping comfort and needs.

“What’s firm to me may not be firm to you — it’s very subjective. The best sleep for you is what your body is telling you,” Jensen advised. “If a mattress allows you to relax, it’s right but if you toss and turn, it’s not the right bed.”

At his warehouse at 13 Ruth’s Place, on the south end of the Business Industrial Park in Carlsborg, Jensen invites customers make an appointment, then come in their pajamas with pillows in tow and spend at least 15 minutes to “test drive” several mattresses. Based on customers’ sleeping habits, Jensen will guide them to a number of mattresses.

“If you lay down and it hurts anywhere after 15 minutes, it’s definitely going to hurt eight hours later,” Jensen said.

Price, quality, comfort

Olympic Mattress Direct sells top name brands such as Beautyrest, Sealy, Simmons, Royal Heritage and Corsicana, which makes its mattresses in Washington. With restful sleep comes a restful mind for consumers because the business sells its state-of-the-art, first quality mattresses at deeply discounted prices through the power of volume buying with 97 other dealers across the country, Jensen explained.

“I keep it to the basics so there’s no full-time staff and my low overhead puts money in customers’ pockets. I operate off of appointments — I’m just five minutes away. That way it’s one-on-one and I can concentrate on the needs of the customer in the showroom,” Jensen said. “A lot of bed companies offer a 30-day trial but we’re under the idea here that you don’t need to pay double for a mattress so you can return it in 30 days. If we give you enough time, you can pay once and choose well the first time.”

According to Jensen, “buying a bed is one of the most important decisions you can make because you’re spending six to eight hours on it. You won’t put up with an underperforming car but the last thing you want to do is buy a new bed because it’s not been affordable and you’re not able to do it with quality. My store’s goal is to make quality mattresses affordable so you’re not spending half your night trying to get to sleep instead of just sleeping.”

Since opening on March 20, word must be getting out because Jensen’s deliveries have increased from one truck every two weeks to two trucks weekly. Mattresses are available in twin, full, queen and king size and with advance notice, the manufacturer can customize special orders.

What’s new

Olympic Mattress Direct also sells split kings and adjustable beds.

“It used to be to get an adjustable bed, you had to be sick, dying or in a hospital,” Jensen quipped. “But now, adjustable beds have become mainstream with massage features for the head, knees and feet. They’re great for using a laptop, reading or sleeping with snorers.”

If you haven’t purchased a mattress for 20 years, you’ll be pleasantly surprised how far old buckboard mattresses have come.

“Now there is memory foam and it’s been reinvented again over the past five years — people hated it or loved it — but if they have not laid on the new memory foam with cool gel, they don’t know what they’re missing,” Jensen said. “Infused memory foam with cool gel dissipates heat at a higher rate than the old memory foam, making it significantly cooler sleeping. You’re not going to wake up in a puddle of sweat.”

There also are hybrid mattresses with individual coils and memory foam gel, plus “pillow tops” in firm, plush and Eurotop (plush-plus) supporting layers, Jensen said — and box springs, those unwieldy things with no handles, are now foundations — plywood boxes covered with fabric for esthetics. Customers can buy a set, a mattress alone or just a foundation.

Highest good

To see the deep savings in dollars and cents, Jensen said potential customers are welcome to check out the prices of other mattress retailers, then compare their prices to those at Olympic Mattress Direct.

“By picking the highest good, we pay attention to one customer at a time and we do one thing well — customers seem to be saying that’s the right choice,” Jensen said. “We do mattresses and we do them well. “I like to call this store the last stop mattress shop.”

Olympic Mattress Direct, family owned and operated, will have a grand opening from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 4-5, “with specials and deals above and beyond our already super-low prices,” Jensen said.