New Habitat Store Helping People Furnish Homes

A new retail outlet in Wayne specializes in helping others inexpensively furnish their homes.

The Paterson chapter of Habitat for Humanity opened a ReStore on Hamburg Turnpike this past weekend. The store sells gently used and surplus building materials, furniture, appliances, windows, and other home necessities.

Habitat for Humanity operates 825 ReStores in the United States and Canada. The stores receive their inventories strictly through donations. Volunteers run the stores.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to assist people throughout Passaic County achieve their dream of home ownership,” said store Director Lucia Fitzgerald. “Anybody who has ever put out a perfectly good item on the curb because they didn’t know what to do with it now has a much better alternative.”

The store sells complete bedroom and kitchen sets along with individual tables, chairs, recliners, and other pieces of furniture. A few washers and dryers line one wall. Bigger pieces like chests, hutches, headboards are also scattered about the store.

The store is located at 415 Hamburg Turnpike adjacent the campus near the Wayne-Paterson border.

“We’re on a main thoroughfare right next to the town we work in and having the ability to help college students furnish their homes is another nice feature of this location,” Fitzgerald said.

The store is open Thursday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers are available to pick up donated items during those times. To arrange for items to be picked up call 973-782-6993. Potential donors should also visit the store’s Web site.

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