history
The Ohio business was started with the investment
of a motorcycle . . .
.
. . but there's more. Steve Felts, the founder and
owner, has been an avid artist ever since he
can remember. In 1980 he joined
the army and was assigned as a helicopter crew chief. Steve's first
sergeant saw some of his artwork and asked Felts to paint a sign for
him. The
company commander was admiring the sign one day and asked Felts to
do a custom painted sign for his jeep wheel cover. The battalion commander
saw the work done on the wheel cover and just came in and snatched
Felts out of the unit and put him in an office next to his. He became
the official battalion artist for the remainder of his duty.
In
1984 he took a job with Art's House of Signs in city and
within two month's the
elderly owner's wife had to go in for a major operation. Art told
Steve if he would help him move his stuff out, 
Steve could have
the business. The only asset Steve had at the time was a motorcycle,
so he sold it for $650 for the cash to get started. $200 was used
to buy paint and brushes, $200 went for rent and $250 went to
buy a 1966 Ford Econoline Van. For the first two years every sign
he did was hand painted.
By 1986 he bought
his first computer and began the process of learning how to merge
his artistic creativity with the power of the
computer.
As
a result his company has been able to bring many new sign innovations
to merchants in and throughout state.
The awnings
business was a natural progression for Steve's Ohio sign company due to the
number of businesses
that use awnings to display signs. The same perfection
to detail that fueled Steve's success in signs has been implemented
into the awnings business. As a result that business grew into
one of the largest Awning and Sign businesses in Southern Ohio.
That business was sold in 2006 and now both Steve and Rhonda were drawn to Washington by the natural beauty of the area. They bring to Washington the fruit of over two decades of sign, awnings and graphic experience.
Oh, and the
most important thing according to both Steve and his wife Rhonda;
the wellspring of Steve's creativity and success is credited
to
faith
in God and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They answer
to a higher authority, so the work has to be good!
- Awnings & Canopies
- Beautiful Wood or Synthetic - Hand Carved, Routed and or Sandblasted
Signs
- Billboards
- Boat Signs
- Custom Art
- Directories and Tenant Signs
- Electronic Message Centers
- Flexible
Fabric Sign Faces
- Free Standing
Pylons
- Full Color
Digital Illustrations
- Gold Leafed
Signs
- Highway
& Safety Signs
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- Illuminated
and Non-Illuminated
- Individual
Letters, 3D, Illuminated and Non-Illuminated
- Murals
- Neon & LED
Illuminated Signs & Architectural Lighting Effects
- Sculptures
- Shopping
Center Sign Bands
- Signs designed
to accent any feel or look. If you can dream it, we can make
it!
- Store Fronts
- Vehicle
& Fleet Graphics
- Vinyl Graphics,
Computer-Cut
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