The Best Post shelf was invented during my Sophomore Year of College.  I was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and realized I had no place to put my alarm clock, drink or cell phone. This really bothered me.  It bothered me so much that I searched to buy a product to solve the problem, but to no avail.  

With no product on the market I created the first Bed Post Shelf out of materials from Home Depot.  The shelf looked horrible, but it did the job!

Next step: I decided to sell the product on campus as I thought if I have the need for it others will too.  Sure enough it sold!  Even though it sold I wasn't ready to bring it to market.  Instead I took a job with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals following graduation. 

God Plays a Role:  Doing well with Pfizer, I randomly found an old Bed Post Shelf two years after the last time I sold or made one in college.  Upon finding the product I couldn't sleep for days and I could only say the constant internal nagging had to be God provided.  It is what propelled me to forge ahead. I decided to go to ISC (Invention Submission Incorporated).  Yes, it might be a scam, but it got me a ligitimate patent search and the confidence to bring the product to full retail.  I didn't do it all with ISC as the fees looked to high, but I did find a way to mass produce the Bed Post Shelf and bring it to market. 

That was 2004 and today the product even though it has sold well to college students is somewhat unknown. I hope to make it a well known product for anyone with a bunk or loft bed.

The company’s origin was in a class assignment in 2003; a paper written as one of many requirements for Ameé Quiriconi’s master’s degree.  The paper turned into pensive notions that a building product could help strengthen local economies and provide social benefit as well as environmental. But what kind of product could really do all that? And what kind of company could make such a product?
 
Ameé continued to pursue this idea for weeks after the paper had been written and submitted for class. And a “trinity” of necessary elements emerged that would help navigate the progression of the product as it was developed and define success. Gradually, as the product matured and began to take shape in Ameé’s garage, each element was consciously held within balance.
 
The first objective was to develop a building material product that could be manufactured in any community across the country. Why? Today many goods and services are “traded” amongst states and towns, due in large part to “efficient” corporate structures or availability of resources. This leaves some communities reliant on getting their foods, building products or raw materials from outside their own economy. And this makes them vulnerable. If a community can minimize its dependence, to a degree, on other communities, they become immune to corporate decisions and downfalls that are beyond their control.  To achieve this objective then the principle raw materials for this product must be abundant in any community. So, what is common in all of our cities and towns in the United States? Garbage.
 
The second objective was making the product economical.  There is no question that if given the choice, people will choose to do the right thing: use recycled products, low-toxic materials, etc. However, people are rarely given choices that are truly equitable. And time and time again we have seen that the ultimate factor in choosing goods and services is price regardless of how “environmentally-friendly” the product is. The aim was to ultimately provide a material with genuine environmental and social benefits at an economical price for customers – remove the price as factor altogether for choosing this product. This bridges the gap between customers’ desires to use products that are better for our world with the realities of finite and limited financial resources.
 
The third and final objective was making it beautiful. Our homes and building are emotional places. The choices we make when selecting materials are sometimes based on how those selections will make us feel when touch them or look upon them. If a product is environmentally-friendly and inexpensive yet leaves us feeling vacuous, have we really been given a choice at all? From this conscientious development and design, Squak Mountain Stone™ was born.