When Habitat for Humanity Greater Raleigh opened its ReStore at 672 North Churton Street in Hillsborough, North Carolina in June 2020, it added one of the newer branches to what is now known as the Triangle ReStores network, a family of donation-funded home improvement outlets serving communities across the region. The Hillsborough store, reachable at 984-217-4200, is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed on Sundays, though shoppers dropping off donations should arrive a bit earlier than closing time: the donation dock stops accepting drop-offs thirty minutes before the store closes on weekdays and a full hour before closing on Saturdays.
Unlike a shop that specializes narrowly in furniture or in building supplies, the Hillsborough ReStore stocks both categories side by side, and the range runs wide. Furniture and home decor share floor space with hardware, windows, plumbing fixtures, lumber and trim, and major appliances, while a dedicated selection of vintage and antique treasures gives the store some of the character of a general antiques shop layered on top of its home improvement inventory. Flooring, doors, and both new and used cabinets round out the mix, along with light fixtures that range from basic replacements to more distinctive statement pieces. Because everything on the floor arrives through donation, the store restocks constantly, and management marks prices down every two weeks to keep inventory moving and make room for what comes in next.
Under manager Jeremy Currie, the Hillsborough location has also built out a cabinet program that pairs its usual stock of used cabinetry with brand-new custom cabinets, giving kitchen and bathroom renovators a way to combine budget-conscious used pieces with new units built to their specifications, all without leaving the same donation-funded retail model behind. That combination, new custom cabinetry sold alongside secondhand doors and hardware, is one of the details that distinguishes this particular Triangle ReStores location from a purely resale operation, and it reflects how the store has grown past its original 2020 opening into a more full-service home improvement resource for Orange County shoppers.
As with every Habitat ReStore, the retail side exists to fund the parent nonprofit’s home construction and repair work, meaning every purchase, from a secondhand door to a new custom cabinet, channels dollars back into affordable housing efforts in the communities the Triangle ReStores network serves. For Hillsborough residents and anyone in the surrounding Orange County area, that makes a stop at the Churton Street store a way to combine practical home improvement shopping, whether hunting for a vintage light fixture or comparing new versus used cabinets, with a direct contribution to local housing work. Donors looking to clear out renovation leftovers, used appliances, or furniture they no longer need can drop items off during the same hours the store is open to shoppers, keeping usable materials in circulation rather than in a landfill.
In short, the Hillsborough Habitat ReStore is a Triangle ReStores location on North Churton Street offering furniture, building materials, vintage finds, and a combined new-and-used cabinet program, with proceeds funding local Habitat for Humanity home-building work.
