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| | BLOG |  | Name
Steve Long, Owner
Company
Skyshelves™
E-Mail
stevelong@skyshelves.com
Website
skyshelves.com
Cell Phone
1-309-269-4433
Address
P.O.
Box 13814
Mesa,
AZ 85216
Hometown
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
| | Profile:
Born in Minnesota, raised in Illinois, the youngest in a household of 11,
began learning construction skills at age 5, helping to build houses by
age 9, on the payroll by age 11 making $25 a day, began traveling at age 21, visited or lived in 49 states by 2006 gaining experience in a wide rage of construction
procedures. Experienced in various forms
of both residential and commercial construction. Brought up in a traditional
hardworking family, instilled with a strong work ethic at a very young age,
highly confident and capable, honest and professional. |
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| Definition of Skyshelves | | Skyshelves™
(not to be confused with overhead storage racks at major retailers) are
by definition any shelves, shelving units or shelving systems
that are braced from or anchored to the ceiling or has its primary support source located
at an elevated level, or, any shelves that have an appearance of "floating" from a wall or
ceiling. The Skyshelves
system is a
universal shelving system that gives consumers an alternative in
suiting all shelving needs and storage issues. And serves to capitalize
on unused space adequately and conveniently with practicability and
affordability. |
| Genesis
of the Skyshelf | | It was sometime in March of
2001, I was in Minneapolis, in the bedroom of my apartment watching the TV, which was to the left of the
bed on the dresser. I either had to twist my neck to the left or lay on my left side, neither of which were
comfortable for a very long period of time. As I was getting a kinked neck, I looked up at the ceiling, and
thought, "what a great spot for the television set", it would eliminate the chiropractor
visit and
open up needed space on my dresser. So then I began thinking that I might mount a piece of plywood to
the ceiling with some chain then I began putting together in my mind the shelf that you see below. I
thought to myself how convenient it would be to be able to
go into a retail outlet
or online and purchase a little kit like that, where a person could
simply
plug 4 arms into the ceiling and connect a shelf to them. After some
market research I could not find anything similar so I decided to
market the idea myself. It would be beautiful and glorious, bordering
on
"God sent" and become known as the Skyshelf. |  |
| History
of Shelving |
As
many of you may know, books used to be so precious and so rare that
they were only allowed to be used if they were permanently chained to their shelves. So it is not so
ironic that the evolution of the modern day
shelf in part, was due to libraries, and their large inventories of
books that needed to be protected and preserved when stored for very long periods
of time.
The wall-mounted shelf support system we
see most commonly today, consisting of at least two vertical slotted wall mounted support bars and shelf
support brackets that slip onto the bar is originally known as the Gartung system. It was patented
in 1978 and is today considered an industry standard. The system is easy to mount and very flexible in design, but
it does have some problems. It is easily possible to dislodge the shelves from the brackets and/or the brackets
from the mounting bar if it is accidentally hit from below. Brushing against it may knock the shelf and
contents off, and overloading can cause the system to fail by the twisting of the brackets, meaning valuables and
breakables are always
in jeopardy, AND,...
it's ugly. This system has been and continues to be used
primarily as a utilitarian low cost solution.
Also in 1978 California Closets were born.
Starting in southern California, C.C. would go on to revolutionize storage solutions and forever changed the way
shelving could be perceived. Selling their first franchise business by 1982, launching their first national
advertising campaign by 1996, and proving the incredible demand for storage solution, their revenues
doubled between 1997 and 2000 alone. C.C. is still around, they have however become somewhat
expensive.
I am proud to say that the evolvement of the shelf continues with the creation
of Skyshelves.
Finally
an affordable and
practical option to shelving and storage solution without having to
bolt heavy looking and unsightly mounting hardware to the ceiling. Good
looking,
dependable, durable, flexible and versatile, it will become known as
the "Stevens
System".
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| Were so competent that we even allow our competitors to advertise on our website. You won't see any of our competitors doing that ! We encourage you to click on some of the advertisements you see to the left or below, see for yourself, we have nothing to fear. |
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