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STORE LOCATIONS
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Bellingham Store
360.647.5921
2309 Meridian Street
Bellingham, WA 98225



Seattle / Ballard Store
Just North of Ballard Bridge
206.297.9119
1440 N.W. 52nd Street
Seattle, WA 98107

STORE HOURS

Monday - Saturday 9-6
Sundays 10-5

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STORE LOCATIONS
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Bellingham Store
Downtown Bellingham
360.647.5921
2309 Meridian Street
Bellingham, WA 98225


Seattle / Ballard Store
Just North of Ballard Bridge
206.297.9119
1440 N.W. 52nd Street
Seattle, WA 98107

STORE HOURS

Monday - Saturday 9-6
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STORE LOCATIONS
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Bellingham Store
Downtown Bellingham
360.647.5921
2309 Meridian Street
Bellingham, WA 98225


Seattle / Ballard Store
Just North of Ballard Bridge
206.297.9119
1440 N.W. 52nd Street
Seattle, WA 98107

STORE HOURS

Monday - Saturday 9-6
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STORE LOCATIONS
& HOURS

Bellingham Store
Downtown Bellingham
360.647.5921
2309 Meridian Street
Bellingham, WA 98225


Seattle / Ballard Store
Just North of Ballard Bridge
206.297.9119
1440 N.W. 52nd Street
Seattle, WA 98107

STORE HOURS

Monday - Saturday 9-6
Sundays 10-5

 

 


The everchanging flow of materials is different every week at each store. Scroll down through our latest news. Featured materials can be found below the events or click on links in the yellow sidebar to the right.

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Materials

Hamilton Cabinetry
School lights, trim, etc.
Dimensional Lumber
Lockers
Lighting
Radiators
20th Century artifact
Jetted Tub with ADA lift
Double Leaded Door
Church Fir Cabinet
Darkroom Door
Bleacher Board-fresh!
Darkroom door
Mannikins
Front Entry Facade
Remilled pine bleacher flooring
Fir built-in cabinet
Museum-quality Cabinet
Antique Sitz Bath
Bleacher Boards
Flooring Galore
Compost Bins
Pedestral Sinks
Tile - Tile - Tile
Screen Doors
Beams and Lumber
Theater Seats - 1st United
Double Door - stained glass
Glass-Fronted Cabinets
Door Hardware
School Lights and Globes
Stainless Double Boiler
High School Cabinets (1927 - 1957)
1920's Stained Glass Windows

All sizes and prices should be verified with in-store sales staff.

Please call us for the most up-to-date information. See the left sidebar for store phone numbers.

OUR NEW BELLINGHAM STORE IS OPEN.
More Info is HERE

The RE Store's new home in Bellingham, The Sustainable Living Center project is moving to the next phase! We met our phase 1 goal of raising $400,000 for our down payment and have now closed the real estate deal! We really need your help to raise the remaining 200,000 for remodeling and moving costs. Please help us!

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Materials details are listed below


Hamilton International Middle School salvage is live!
The RE Store has the honor of salvaging its beautiful fir cabinets, trim, lockers, slate blackboards, flooring, fixtures, and more. Catch some of these primo materials as they fly by. Seattle store will be loaded to the gills with great materials. Several semi-trailers of school items will be coming to Bellingham as well.
Hamilton was completed in 1927, one of Floyd Naramore's 20 renowned schools that he designed for Seattle between 1919 and 1930.
Craftsmanship and old growth fir like this is a rare thing. Come at least take a peek!


Ballard RE Store named "Best Way to Responsibly Update Your Home" in Seattle Weekly's Best of Seattle Issue
We received a shout out from the Weekly, heralding us as welcomed relief from big-box home improvement stores. They even liked our mannequins! See for yourself.

Water Features Design & Hands-on Installation workshop in Bham
POSTPONED UNTIL MAY, 2009
Date To Be Announced

Due to a combination of factors, we have decided to delay this workshop until May, 2009. It will be worth the wait!

As a part of the Fountain Plaza project, RE Store is partnering with Alpine Ponds and Water Gardens and Little Darling School to give you a real water feature design and installation experience.

Read more about the workshop here

 

 

RE Store in the News

-RE Store House Deconstruction in the Seattle P.I. - Read the full story at the P.I. website.

-RE Store partnering with Habitat for Humanity in Bellingham Herald


Recycled Art Birthday Parties in Bellingham!
The RE Store never stops innovating with creative and fun events. Would you or someone you know, big or small, like to celebrate their birthday with a pile of junk, a whole bunch of tools, art supplies, and helpful folks to make art from? Seriously, we will be booking our mobile Recycled Art Station for private birthday parties in the RE Store's Sustainable Living Center, beginning in mid-May, 2008. Contact Jason Darling for more information via email

Reusable bag rebate program at Cost Cutters and Food Pavilions throughout Whatcom and Skagit program benefits RE Sources for Sustainable Communities
Brown and Cole stores across Whatcom and Skagit County are rewarding customers for bringing their own reusable bag to the grocery store. The local grocery chain is not only giving a nickel rebate to those who bring their own bag, but is giving customers a choice to donate their nickel to a local environmental group. RE Sources for Sustainable Communities is the designated environmental group to benefit from donations made at any of the 12 Whatcom County locations (Cost Cutter in Bellingham, Ferndale and Blaine, Everson Red Apple, Lynden and Southside Food Pavilion)

Fountain Project

Bellingham Fountain Plaza Project

Learn more about our efforts to improve this valuable little hub of Bellingham's Fountain District, just across the street from our store. View the process thus far by following this link to more info here

The items below may be representations or samples of actual materials.

Please call the appropriate store as soon as possible if you are interested in any materials you see here. We sell on a first come, first served basis.

Store Contact Information is in the Side Bar.

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Hamilton Middle School Cabinets - old growth fir from the 1920s!
$Prices vary widely
We have a variety of sizes and styles of cabinets. Some have glass fronts and others have solid doors. These are great to convert into armoirs, closets, china hutches, or whatever you may need to store in style. Craftsmanship and clear vertical grain fir just doesnt come to The RE Store like this very often.

Seattle & B'ham

Other great Hamilton School Items
Lighting, trim, flooring... The tide is in on premium, stylish old decor. There arent that many more schools like this waiting to be remodeled. The end of a salvage era is coming to a close, so get it while its in our Seattle and Bellingham stores

Seattle & B'ham

Lumber galore
$Pricing depends on size and quantity
Loads of dimensional lumber is moving through, thanks to our hard-working deconstruction crews taking down entire houses. Learn more about our deconstruction program here

Seattle & B'ham

Lockers
$Pricing depends on quantity - Price range:40-30.00
Big. Gray. Heavy-gauge steel.
Store galore in yours.

B'ham

Lighting the way
$10.00 - $250.00
Sometimes a stylish old light is just the pick-me-up that can make a room sparkle in new ways. Our selection is full of eclectic, electric fixtures.

Seattle & B'ham

Radiators - good old fashioned steam is still one of the most efficient forms of heating space.
$Check prices in store
Nothing can replace the look and feel of radiators. If you are thinking of replacing your old radiator system in your house, reconsider just upgrading your boiler. These make great paper weights too.

B'ham & Seattle

The famed phone booth
$200.00
There will come a day when these may come back into fashion, but until then, this will be seen as an artifact of the previous century. This is the one featured in the Seattle P.I. so you have a shot at owning something that has made thousands of folks smile. Superheroes will receive a do-gooder discount with proper id.

Seattle

Jetted accessible tub with lift
$375.00
This full size tub comes complete with a lift, hand-held shower spray hose, and jets. Just the right thing for someone living at home who just can't quite get in and out of the tub. This unit is stored in our warehouse so please ask Bellingham store staff to see it.

B'ham

Double door with stain glass
$500
66"w x 81 1/2"h
Pre-hung interior set w/leaded glass. This would make any interior entrance into a solarium, living/dining room, or enclosed porch spectacular.

Seattle

Fir cabinet - upper and lower
$800

96"w x 74"h x 23"d
Large, dark stained cabinet from a church gives you all kinds of room for your storage satisfaction. Lots of solid clear fir in its construction.

Seattle

Darkroom door
$250 - 81"h x 36"w Revolving style light tight door for your darkroom. Appears to fit into an existing 80" x 36" doorway. These things are fun for the whole family. If you ever visited the Bellingham Holly Street store you may remember our door like this by the main entrance.

Seattle

Bleacher board - fresh batch!
$5/LF - 8 1/2" x 3/4" x 16' Nice CVG bleacher stock
A new stack of prime old fir. This stuff won't be available for many more years.

Seattle

Man & womanikkins
The idealized human form one again graces our showroom floor. John Ashcroft might have wanted us to cover them but this is the way our mothers pushed us into the world. Thanks Mom!

Seattle

Front Entry Facade
$1200.00
This classic entry invites all through its door opening that is 45.5" wide and 89.5"
tall. The outside dimensions are 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide and 1 foot deep.

Seattle

Pull-Down School Maps
$85.00 - 100.00
Large maps are 5 feet wide, small maps are 4 feet wide. These come in a variety oflocales from around our sweet little home planet.

Seattle

Counter top laminated onto pressboard - NEW
$16.00 per 4'x8' sheet
Full sheets of countertop pre-laminated to press board in a variety of warm, cold, and neutral colors. Its a big stack so come while the selection is good.

B'ham

Fir built in cabinet
$550.00

The warmth of fir - the craftmanship of yesterday - hardware on 7 drawers and 3 doors - styley little columns hold up the top.
70 1/2 H x 19' W x 68 1/2 L

Seattle

Monolithic cabinet from Seattle Art Museum
$400.00
This unit was
intended to house ancient japanese scroll, but was too big to fit in the door. Oops. Store your most precious items in this cabinet built of zero-off-gassing formaldehyde-free mdf inside/beautiful clear cedar outside. One of a kind.

Seattle

Antique Sitz Bath
$2000.00
Soak and know that you are
fully sitzed. No bathroom is complete without proper sitzification.

Seattle

Bleacher boards
milled pinebleacher - $5.50 / lf. - $3.00/ lf.

9 1/2” x 3/4” fir bleacher - joined, painted (one side), bullnose

8 1/4” x 3/4” fir bleacher - $3.00/ lf.
joined, painted (one side), bullnose

7 1/4” x 3/4” fir bleacher - $2.50/ lf.
joined, painted (one side), bullnose

11 1/4” x 1 1/16” fir bleacher - $4.50/ lf.
vertical grain, bullnose,
painted (one side, no-stick grit)

Seattle

Pews
$60.00-140.00
Just what you have been looking for to make a breakfast nook to serve loaves and fishes from,
a bench seat in a hallway, or other places you may want to seat the masses. A variety of lengths give the opportunity for different levels of piety. Hymn books not included.

Seattle

Flooring galore
The latest load of primo flooring is here:
3 1/4 inch wide fir - $4.00 / square foot
2 1/4 inch wide oak - $1.75 / square foot
2 1/4 inch wide maple - $2.50 / square foot
Wide plank pine flooring - $2.00 / square foot

Seattle

Compost bins
$55.00 each
Sleek, new, black bins that facilitate the alchemy of turning kitchen scraps and yard clippings into rich nutritious earth. Why make trash when you can make dirt?

Bham
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Seattle

Tile - Tile - Tile
Prices available in-store
All manner of tile - lots of wall tile - some floor tile - its changing all the time.

Bham

Screen doors from days of yore
$40.00 - 65.00
Fir screen doors are available in a variety of sizes. Some have hardware included. These turn of the century beauties will be just what you need to keep those pesky skeeters out.

Seattle

Beams and other lumber
$Prices vary based on dimension and condition
The deconstruction project in West Seattle is yielding stacks of valuable structural timbers, along with car decking and other good framing lumber.

Bham

Theater Seats - 1st United Methodist Church
Price available in-store
Line em up. Fold em down. Sit on down. Now get on up and lift em up. Now get on the dance floor and everybody swing your partner...

Seattle

Double Door with Stained Glass
From First United Methodist Church

$6500.00 - Practically priceless - visit our Seattle sales floor to feast your eyes on this finely crafted entrance. Someone will create a grand opening with this magnificent door set.

Seattle

Glass-fronted cabinets
$600-$1000
A variety of cabinets with glass fronts on the upper part of the cabinet, solid vertical grain fir all around and on the lower doors. Come browse these gems.

Seattle

Door hardware
Decor to score for your door...
What do we have in stock this week?
$1 - $100

Seattle
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Bham

Groen Stainless Steel Double Boiler
$200 (or best offer)
This is serious restaurant equipment used for heating things such as chocolate and sauces without burning them. The several gallon pot tilts to pour. There is an inlet and an outlet for pre-heated water source.

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Seattle

1920's Stained Glass Windows
Prices range from $450 - $2,500
A truly rare find! We have a wide variety of styles and sizes of Povey Brothers stained glass windows salvaged from First Christian Church on Broadway in Capitol Hill. Some depict religious scenes, others are merely designs, all are made with extraordinary materials and skill. Mention this website and get 10% off. 

Povey Brothers Stained Glass Window (detail)

Seattle


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