DIY Ideas and Inspiration

In this age of material excess, it can be all too easy to amass enough stuff to qualify for Hoarders. If this sounds familiar, don’t panic: by practicing a little restraint and doing a bit of legwork, you can organize your home in three easy steps.

It's that time of year again! College students are settling in and prepping for a great year ahead. Still working on getting your dorm or apartment set up?

This blog post was written last August by our Development and Communications intern, Chauncey Bowden, who happens to be an expert on small spaces, as she currently lives in a little Raleigh apartment. With students coming back to the Triangle, we thought it might be a good time to dust it off

Mike Hillis, a local of the Triangle, renovated his bathroom using Habitat Wake ReStore tile, among other things.

There’s so much you can do with leftover tile! This is an inexpensive material we get often in all of the ReStores.

By now you’ve probably heard of the KonMari method of tidying up, which advocates for minimalism and only owning items that spark joy.

This blog post was written by Briana Gorman, who recently began volunteering at the Cary Store and is an amateur DIY-er. As every good DIY-er knows, sanding is an important step when refinishing any project.

We had some great customers in 2016 who tagged us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to show us how the upgraded and styled their ReStore pieces. Here are our favorites! In no particular order...

This guest blog post was written by Zach Schiller, a third-year interior design student at the Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham and a member of the ASID student chapter. He specializes in custom-made pieces using locally-sourced, sustainable materials (including those found at the ReStore!).