One of the design goals for Turnstone’s award winning Scoop stool was to avoid competing with the architecture of a space. This can create a problem when you want people to notice changes made to the chair.

Recently, we added two new options to Scoop. Turnstone released new two options; the side chair and the upholstered seat pad.

“With God as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”

You know the scene we’re talking about. Gone with the Wind – the end of act one: Scarlett O’Hara, all dirty from the Civil War, her house in shambles, holding some kind of radish thing and yelling out to no one in particular. You know you watched it in 6th grade. All four hours of it. That was resolve. Both you and her. She wasn’t going to go hungry if she had to marry three different dudes for their money (even Rhett Butler ! ::gasp::), and you weren’t going to watch another movie longer than 2:30 for the rest of your life.

That resolve probably wasn’t for New Year’s back then, but man, it was strong. Got us thinking- since when did resolutions get so wussy and predictable? Not only that, but even if they’re just a schmidge too hard, game over by February.

That’s not our style this year. We’re posting our top three 2010 resolutions online so that we’re stuck with them. Saved forever in the pipes of the internet. Bring on the 10’s!

Resolution 1 – We’re going to own our inbox
Email isn’t going to control our lives any more. You know that feeling when a new message pops up? That little red starry thing on Mac Mail? We hate that feeling – it totally screws up our flow! So we aren’t going to do it anymore. The once-a-minute check’s going to get replaced by a strict every thirty minutes only policy. We’re also going to keep things more organized – which starts by making a new folder called 2009, and moving everything old into it. Still searchable, still there, but out of mind and one step closer to that elusive inbox victory.

Resolution 2 – Time to network
Gah! We really don’t like “networking,” at least in the traditional sense of the word. Always makes us think about stuffy people in ties talking about how many people they’re in charge of, or wanting to sell us something (um, another drink this way please.). This year, we’re going to change all that; networking 2.0. If a kid from college wants to meet up and learn about the business, we’ll try to make it happen. If we meet someone interesting on Twitter, we’ll chat them up. If you want to hear about the wonders of the right-hand knob on a Think chair, let’s get coffee.

And our parents told us to be afraid of strangers!

Resolution 3 – We’re getting out of here at 5pm
I don’t think any of us have seen a full episode of Around the Horn since we were in college. That’s a travesty. Come to mention it, nary is a day when we’ve got to worry about parking on the wrong side of the street in the city (which ends at 6pm). We’ve got a problem. Time to start going home on time. Barring the occasional client meeting prep, it should be pretty feasible, too. Usually people don’t get anything done after 5 pm anyway. There’s even science to back it up.

We’re all in this together: why not post your 2010 resolutions in the comments to keep you in check, too? Don’t get too personal on us, though, because if never going hungry’s your one resolution for the year, well frankly, you’re on your own with that one.

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On-line user reviews are quickly becoming the place people go to when making purchase decisions. North American Internet Users trust user reviews more than advertisements on television, on the radio, in magazines and newspapers, or in other traditional media. (Nielsen Online, April 2009)

We heard you! You now have the ability to post and view user reviews of the products on Store.

So…check out a couple of the reviews below, view all of them or leave your own reviews (pretty please!) by clicking the leave a review on the appropriate product page.

Leap Chair – I sit in this chair in my home office for literally hours at a time, morning to night, and when my body gets tired of one position, I just click a lever or two, turn a knob this way or that, slide, push, or shift something else, and I’ve got a new chair — or that’s how it feels, anyway. Evie from Jersey City, NJ on 12/12/2009

Walkstation – I walk 4 – 10 miles a day, when I used to be sitting. It’s great to end the day and know that i have accomplished so much exercise! I find it easy to work on my laptop and make phone calls while walking.
I also love the customizability of the Walkstation. It’s easy to set it up and get the right size and accessories for my office space. DG from Santa Fe, NM on 8/30/2009

Once in a while, it happens. The boss brought out egg nog, and now here you are – milk-based spillage all over the office’s new fabric Amia. So, what do you do? In our world, there’s really only three options:

1. Pretend like nothing happened, and leave it: Definitely the easiest, the ‘ole spill-and scam’s worked lots of times, most recently at our company Christmas party (it wasn’t us, we swear!) – but you run the risk of being outed by Mike in Accounting if he catches you in the act. Is it worth it? As long as you’ve got a great poker face. What if you got caught? Depends on if you’ve got an intern – they’ll only be around for three months any way!

2. Clean it up: A little bit harder, but if you pull it off right and people are watching, you might be able to flip the party from talking all about your clumsiness, to your superhuman Harry Houdini skills making stains disappear! You might even be able to parlay it into a cool office nickname– which we’re well aware, is super hard to do. If you’re going this route, here’s a personal tip that we use around the house: Get as much as you can off of the top with some kind of rag, then cover it with some salt, which will prevent the stain from setting. Lift the stain out of the fabric with some club soda (water could work too), and blot, blot, blot. Works like a charm for synthetic fabric! Of course, if you want to be ultra safe, try the Steelcase expert method; after all, we’re just novices.

3. Sneak the stained chair out of there and get a replacement quick!: Does the stain look huge? Do you have a clear getaway exit? Is the chair really ugly? If you answered yes to all these questions, you could pull this one off – but you’ll have to be quick! Roll the offending chair out to your car and hop on to our website to pick a new one out! Did we mention, it’s free next-day shipping on some selected chairs? The new chair will be there before you know it, and if you upgrade the recipient, depending on who’s seat it is, you might be the toast of the town! This one’s definitely our favorite decision by far (c’mon, we’re the Steelcase Store!).

Got any special moves of your own? Ever catch anyone trying to pull something? If it sounds good, we’d love to hear about it!

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