The ReBuilding Center, located in Portland, OR, is a downright amazing resource. This non-profit aims to make home repair affordable to everyone through salvaged and reclaimed materials. They have a huge selection of just about everything that structurally makes up a home (sinks, cabinets, lighting, tile, windows, doors, lumber, etc...), offer deconstruction services, and sell furniture made from reclaimed materials. As fun as it is to go to The ReBuilding Center to browse the seemingly endless aisles of inventory, it is a great place to donate items that you are replacing in your home. Knowing that your old sink, light fixture, kitchen cabinets might find a new home makes a remodel that much better! The materials that you find at the ReBuilding Center are priced 50-90% less than market prices.
The ReBuilding Center is an amazing building architecturally speaking. Utilizing many reclaimed materials, the walls are a motley of vintage windows and siding beautifully pieced together. Within the ReBuilding Center you will find ReFind Furniture. They build contemporary furniture made with 99% salvaged materials. Definitely worth checking out if you are in the Portland area.
(Images: Molly Anderson)
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3625 N. Mississippi Ave
Portland,
OR
97227
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503.331.1877
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| Website: | www.rebuildingcenter.org |
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the reStore in bellingham was sooo much better.
same concept, more reasonable prices.
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yeah but then you have to live in crappy bellingham. thanks for the insightful input. antimatt.
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I love this place! It's so fun to dig around and look at stuff. We've even taken out of town visitors here to check it out, which might seem weird because it's not like they are going to haul a door or cabinet back with them, but it's just that much fun to look around here.
I've never found anything to be unreasonably priced... The staff has always been really nice too!
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i did a quick walk-thru of this place when i was visiting friends in portland a few months ago. i was certainly impressed with the look of the place and overall it seemed like a great resource, but unfortunately couldn't spend spend enough time to really get *in* to it.
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We love the Rebuilding center! We've gotten materials for a number of projects there, the prices are really very good. We've even gotten windows and other recycled materials to incorporate into our chicken coop!
We have also taken out of towners there for a visit, it's a nice taste of PDX.
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as a recent transplant to portland from sf, I'm really excited that you've decided to showcase the rebuilding center. the prices are totally reasonable and the selection is great. they even have antique pieces with a posted history alongside with it. it's an awesome spot for repurposing and recycling old goodies. we've been dropping in there to pick up a thing or two to revamp the rental we're in. so when we get our own place, this will be one of the first places we will be going to to build our new home.
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We have a similar one here in Pittsburgh PA. It is called construction junction. On the same lot, we also have one of the city's recycling dropoffs. I love the findings section. I do not think it is designed for jewerly, but for people looking for door knobs and bolts :-) They also have a section to bring in paint- the kind where you still have half a gallon and you will never need it again! http://www.constructionjunction.org/
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That facade is amazing, is that cob?
I will have to visit next time I'm in Portland.
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