Beaverton ReStore - Habitat for Humanity — Local services in Beaverton

Wonderful thrift store with a good cause. I’ve thrifted some nice art and furniture, like a cherry blossom painting and a mirrored armoire. The amount of handmade art there for a fair price is lovely, and the furniture selection is extensive and usually reasonably priced (can be hit or miss, but that’s not exclusive to the ReStore).

It’s not a perfect store - most stuff is a good deal, some of it’s not, typical thrift store randomized pricing. I donated a bin that I’d bought from Goodwill for 2 bucks and I left the sticker on it so that they could price it accordingly, then I came in a few days later and saw the tag… 3 dollars lol. I’m inclined to think it should have either been 2 dollars again or less, but whether by accident or on purpose, stuff gets overpriced all the time at thrift stores - so you have to make sure you’re getting a fair deal.

That being said, there’s truly unique things I’ve found here that I wouldn’t have been able to find anywhere else, and it’s a place that I plan to frequent as often as possible (good deals on good stuff more often than not!). The free pile is always nice to check too, I can respect them for giving away what they can’t sell so that they can still keep it out of landfills. It’s more what Goodwill does since Goodwill crushes everything that they can’t sell; makes it seem as though they couldn’t care less about helping the environment and community (and that criticism comes from an ex employee). It’s nice to see a thrift store truly honor its mission statement and know that you’re supporting a good cause by donating and...

I've been shopping at this location for years. Bought stough to rebuild my sister's house, and minr. A@Been coming here for years. I usually go there looking for something, sonetimes I find it and sometimes I find something else. I know when something is over priced and I just leave it. I'm a thrifty shopper. Last week my car was getting fixed down street so I thought I'd walk to restore place, I saw a wall planter that had a yellow sticker on it, said 8 dollars, a couple was standi@ng next to me and said "good find'. I had to get back so I took to register, the cashier looked at it, it was also 25% off so it was 6 bucks. I was walking back to Toyota so asked if I could come back and get. I paid for it, had receipt, when I came back to get a man that turned out to be manager said that was the wrong price, he took yellow sticker off and it said 30 bucks which is bout a price of a new one, he took it upon himself to return it to the store and put money back into my account. Craziest thing ever. All this stough is donated , I'm a valued customer and he did that to me. My daughter's remodeling the house but nothing will go to restore, not now. The more these companies get for free the greetier they get. That was one of my favorite places but Im now disgusted with the way the manager treated me, I give the manager NO 🌟 Free to them, arm and leg to us. Maybe they should be building more homes for...

Minor Bad first: They need to mark the entrance better.

If you're gonna hide the entrance around the corner, behind the dumpsters and out of sight: Have more than one sign. 3+ would be good*.

Especially if that one sign's arrow points EXACTLY away from said entrance. Or at least make that arrow a "twisty" one for "go around corner".

Other than that, nice store. Interesting stuff. Staff was pleasant when we wandered through their work area trying to find the entrance (along with several other folks).

As usual with Habitat I find the prices slightly high, but not silly high, with a few good deals scattered in.

*Since I noticed that someone had commented about the (handicapped) entrance before and not been answered...

The "behind the dumpster" route is a ramp, the stairs aren't actually the entrance, though it's what one might think they we pointing at.

Three sign placement 101:

Keep the big one you've got.

Put one at START of "hidden" entrance. Right behind curb. Pointing UP ramp. #1 will actually point at this sign instead of just towards Portland.

Put a big one on opposite side of loading docks pointing TOWARDS the other two signs that says: "Entrance around corner of building". Until my spouse pointed the existing sign out I was set to try entering through the next...