Another furniture, design and accessories store is coming to the Waterfront

The holidays generally are an especially stressful time for most retailers, but Sharon Nelson seems to be topping every other store owner’s stress level this year by moving her Nelson Designs in the middle of the season.

“We’re putting up Christmas here,” she said of her store in the Shops at Tallgrass, “and then right smack in the middle of December we’re going to be taking it down . . . and putting it up in the new store.

She laughed and said, “That’s why I’m having a nervous breakdown.”

Nelson thinks the upheaval will be worth it because she’s moving to the Waterfront at 13th and Webb Road just to the west of Bonefish Grill.

“It’s the perfect location,” she said.

“We think it’s an opportunity to be in a space where many of our clients live. . . . It’s close to a lot of the restaurants that people are really interested in.”

Nelson said she has a lot of clients on the west side, too.

“It’ll still be in such a good . . . location that people from both sides of town will be able to get there quickly.”

Her store near 21st and Rock Road, where she’s had two different storefronts since moving her formerly home-based business there in 2009, currently is in 5,100 square feet.

The new space is 3,800 square feet. While Nelson said she would have liked a larger space, she said the store will have photos of furniture and other items in storage, “So I think that won’t be a real issue.”

Nelson Designs carries furniture, drapes, accessories, lighting, flooring and art, including original pieces.

“We do everything but put windows in,” Nelson said.

There are 6,000 fabrics to choose from in the store and more than 250,000 in books. Nelson said she has more than 150 vendors.

“We can do the entire job.”

Nelson said furniture companies see the Waterfront as a viable area.

“There’s just a lot of activity in that area, a lot of growth,” she said.

Don Piros of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.

Nelson Designs joins Ethan Allen, Diva Design & Furniture Gallery and Accent Lighting at the Waterfront.

“There’s quite a bit of synergies developing over at the Waterfront with home design,” said Stephen Clark II of Clark Investment Group, a Waterfront developer.

“They probably compete on some level, but I think in general, clusters of services like that . . . should help all of them.”