Announcing the ReStore-It Challenge
Join our new sustainable challenge and showcase your creativity and talent
This July, we are hosting a ReStore-It Challenge to support local affordable housing for families in need and to promote sustainability. From June 4th to July 31st, anyone can enter by purchasing a $20 ReStore credit and taking home a piece of furniture to fix up from the San Luis Obispo or Paso Robles ReStore. Bring it back to the respective store by July 31 for customer voting. Winners will be announced August 17 at The Big Deal ReStore Anniversary Event.
Entering the ReStore-It Challenge allows participants to show off their skills with creativity, traditional restoration, or innovation to revive their piece while promoting sustainable consumer habits. “Each year, Americans throw out more than 12 million tons of furniture,” the New York Times wrote in one article. Renewing and repurposing furniture gives it a second chance and keeps it out of landfills; so far this year, local ReStore customers prevented 686,650 pounds of usable materials from ending up in the trash.
“Dining room tables and chairs, dressers, bookshelves, hutches, coffee tables – there is so much to choose from,” states Stephanie Wright, Habitat SLO ReStores Manager. “It’s nice to see old pieces come back to life in other ways.”
Participants can proudly exhibit their project by taking photos to show progress, posting photos on Instagram with #ReStoreItChallenge and tagging @HabitatSLOReStores.
ReStore credit can be used on store items and the proceeds go towards Habitat’s affordable housing, Home Preservation, and Neighborhood Revitalization programs.
Pictured, ReStores Manager Stephanie Wright sands a table in our Paso Robles ReStore workshop.
Fore more information about the challenge, visit the ReStore-It Challenge web page linked below.