Since 1990, the Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore has sold donated home goods and building supplies out of its store at 31 Meadow Road in Asheville, North Carolina, making it one of the longest-running ReStores in a network of nearly 900 locations across the country, and one of the highest-performing among them. The store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9am to 6pm, giving shoppers six days a week to browse furniture, appliances, building materials, housewares, and other donated goods at prices well below retail, with a sister location in nearby Weaverville, at 61 Weaver Boulevard, running a slightly later Tuesday through Saturday schedule from 10am to 6pm.
Every dollar spent at the Asheville ReStore supports Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity’s building and repair programs, the core mission behind the entire ReStore concept: rather than relying purely on grants or donations, Habitat affiliates around the country run these retail stores specifically to fund the construction and repair work the organization does in the community, and Asheville’s version of that model has grown large enough to rank among the strongest performers nationally. In 2025 alone, the store’s two locations combined sold 736,857 items to 165,586 customers, numbers that reflect not just steady foot traffic but a well-organized operation capable of processing an enormous volume of donated goods.
That volume depends heavily on volunteer labor, and in 2025 volunteers logged 29,950 hours supporting the ReStore’s operations, from sorting and pricing donations to staffing the sales floor, a level of community involvement that keeps the stores running without the overhead of a fully paid retail staff. The environmental side of the mission matters just as much as the fundraising side: by reselling donated goods instead of sending them to a landfill, the ReStore diverted 2,922 tons of material from disposal in 2025 alone, turning what would otherwise be waste into affordable inventory for local shoppers.
One program that sets the Asheville ReStore apart from a typical thrift or resale operation is Register Round Up, which lets customers round their purchase total up to the nearest dollar at checkout, with the extra cents going to support local nonprofit organizations rather than Habitat itself. Since the program began in 2019, it has raised more than 150,000 dollars for community groups, a detail that shows the ReStore functioning as a broader philanthropic hub for the Asheville area rather than only funding its own parent organization.
For anyone renovating a home, furnishing a first apartment, or simply hunting for a good deal on secondhand furniture and building materials, the Asheville ReStore offers donation pickup scheduling online and a steady rotation of new stock as area residents and contractors drop off usable goods. Because everything sold has been donated, the exact selection changes daily, rewarding shoppers who check back often rather than expecting a specific item to be waiting on any given visit.
The Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore sells donated home goods and building supplies at 31 Meadow Road to fund local Habitat construction and repair programs, having diverted nearly 3,000 tons of material from landfills in 2025 alone.
