History of the FunDisplay
The events that led to the invention of the Fun Display product line span over a time frame of many years. When Tom was just out of high school, he went on several educational trips to Central America to study Mayan ruins and culture. While traveling the mountains of Honduras and Guatemala, he had the pleasure of enjoying incredibly good soups in the many villages he visited. Years later, those memories spurred a desire to learn the art of soup-making for self enjoyment and to share with his family.
The cooking of great soups led to buying many bottles of fine spices. The proliferation of spice bottles led Tom to search for a suitable organizational system that would display his spices in an attractive fashion and available for creative use while cooking. A search of both the internet and the local retail stores revealed many available systems and designs, but there were none that met his needs and expectations. It was time to go to Home Depot, get out the wood-working tools, and make some prototypes. A working model of The Straight Step Shelf was created, and it worked beyond expectation. The first person outside the household that saw the prototype asked where we had gotten it, indicating the design was really worthwhile!
There are many products for organizing spice bottles in the marketplace, so there was a question if another good design was needed by consumers. However, Tom had been greatly irritating his wife with his perpetual mess of vitamin and supplement bottles strewn about the kitchen counter. While Tom believed that good nutritional was important and worthwhile, his wife was certain that a mess of vitamin bottles on the counter-top was tacky and unattractive. An all-out effort was then begun to design the most attractive and efficient family of displays for common household products.
From that problem and household conflict was born the idea of creating The Fun Display family of storage displays for items including vitamins, supplements, medicines, and spices. Once the first product designs were complete, customers also began using the storage displays for baby food, dog food cans, and displaying mementos, photos and collectibles. There will be many more product designs added to the Fun Display family over the coming months and years. We hope that you enjoy them.