Family upholstery business is booming
SUN PHOTO BY ROGER BUTTON
The five family partners of AeroNaut Upholstery Solutions discuss the installation of a battery box panel in a 1932 Ford Roadster: Gayle Harrison, left, Justin Nichols, Jeff Schluter, Terry Nichols and Robin Schluter.
SUN PHOTO BY ROGER BUTTON
Master upholsterer Gayle Harrison is the founder and family matriarch of AeroNaut Upholstery Solutions.
More than 30 years ago, Gayle Harrison, a master upholsterer, was working part-time while raising two young children. She created a small business reupholstering seating in small aircraft.
Today, those two children have grown and married, and the whole family owns and operates a fast-growing business, AeroNaut Upholstery Solutions, 779 Commerce Drive, Unit 11, in the Sarasota Industrial Estate at Jacaranda Boulevard/I-75 interchange.