Furniture that would otherwise ride to a landfill in the back of a junk removal truck gets a second act at Remix Market, a secondhand home goods store at 9709 Brown Lane, Suite A, on the north side of Austin, Texas. The shop is the retail partner of The Junkluggers, a junk removal and donation pickup company, and much of what lines its floor arrives directly from Junkluggers jobs around the city: dressers, dining sets, sofas, lamps, mirrors, art, and decor that were still perfectly usable when a homeowner or estate cleared them out. Rather than treating those pieces as waste, Remix Market cleans, prices, and resells them, so a mid-century side table or a barely used sectional gets a new home instead of a spot in a landfill.
The Austin store organizes its philosophy around three ideas: rediscovering a room by furnishing it affordably, reimagining what happens to used furniture instead of discarding it, and repurposing pieces that still have plenty of life left, all summed up in the shop’s own description of itself as a new spin on old stuff. Inventory changes daily since it depends on what Junkluggers crews pick up that week, which means regular visitors can find anything from vintage estate finds to lightly used contemporary pieces from recognizable retail brands, often priced at a fraction of what they would cost new. That constant turnover rewards shoppers who treat the store as a rotating discovery spot rather than a one-time destination, since the exact chair or cabinet spotted on one visit may be gone, replaced by something else, the next week.
Hours at the Brown Lane location run Monday through Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., giving both weekday browsers and weekend furniture hunters a chance to dig through the floor. The Austin store’s Instagram account, run under the handle atx underscore remix, along with its Facebook page, post fresh inventory as it arrives, which is useful given how quickly items move once they are marked and displayed. Beyond the environmental angle, the business also folds in a local charitable component, directing a percentage of each sale to Family Eldercare, a Central Texas nonprofit that provides housing assistance, financial support, and wellness programs for older adults and people with disabilities. That combination, diverting furniture from landfills while funding services for vulnerable neighbors, gives the store a mission that goes beyond simple resale.
For Austin residents furnishing a first apartment, refreshing a room on a budget, or simply looking for a solid wood dresser instead of flat-pack furniture, Remix Market offers a browsable, constantly refreshed alternative to both big-box retail and typical thrift stores, built on the idea that someone else’s discarded furniture is often still exactly what another household needs. The store’s tie to The Junkluggers also means shoppers get a rough sense of an item’s backstory, since most pieces came from a real home or estate rather than a warehouse liquidation. Remix Market in Austin turns furniture that was headed for the landfill into affordable, browsable finds for local shoppers, while directing part of every sale to a Central Texas eldercare nonprofit.
