Habitat Home Improvement Outlets

For Habitat staff and volunteers, there’s never a typical day at the Habitat Home Improvement Outlets. With new donations coming in, the landscape of the warehouses in Denver and Wheat Ridge change from a sea of cabinets to refrigerators to antique televisions. With these new items to spark creativity, the Outlets go way beyond home improvement stores.

The Outlets accept donations of new or used home improvement items and sell them back to the public at up to 80% off retail. The recycled materials reduce the amount of trash in local landfills and reduce waste from remodeling projects. Funds from the Outlets cover 96.8% of Habitat’s administrative costs and allow other donations and sponsorships to directly fund Habitat’s homeownership program. Alongside Habitat staff, volunteers at the Outlets can sign up and bring their own creativity and skills to the stores. Volunteers organize, paint, move furniture, test appliances and help with group projects. With the departure of one AmeriCorps group and the upcoming arrival of another, the Outlets are constantly changing. This time around, the Denver store got a facelift with some new paint.

Weekly specials and deals for friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter help unique items sell fast. Upcoming events like the Denver Home Show will feature materials from the Outlets and attendees can enter to win hundreds in gift cards to shop at either location.

“People will often come in looking for one thing and end up leaving with two others,” said Denver Outlet Manager Jerry Arnold. “It becomes almost like a treasure hunt and people get excited about what they might find.”

Visit the Outlets on Facebook and Twitter for deals, events, new donations and pictures. For more information on the Outlets, click here.