Can You Renovate an Italianate Farmhouse Using Recycled Items from ReStore?
Just Ask Betsy Hall!
Create a High-End Kitchen on a Shoestring Budget
(the first in a series of reports about Betsy Hall’s remarkable restoration project in Santa Rosa’s historic West End)
Betsy Hall of Santa Rosa is working miracles with a house she’s renovating at 133 Seventh St.
(corner of Seventh and Davis). Not only is she transforming a eyesore and health hazard into a neighborhood treasure, but she’s putting recycled materials to use and saving thousands of dollars by utilizing merchandise from ReStore.
This kitchen was a disaster filled with garbage just four months ago–and soon will be a showplace with stunning cherry cabinets that Betsy found at ReStore. It’s a win-win: She saved money and was able to put in top-quality cabinets, the cabinets didn’t go into a landfill because their original owners donated them to ReStore, and all the proceeds from the sale of the cabinets go directly to supporting Habitat for Humanity’s mission of creating decent, affordable housing here in Sonoma County.
Watch for more updates on the Betsy’s creative uses of ReStore merchandise.
Rincon Valley Charter School 8th Graders Hit the Streets to Promote ReStore
Local 8th Graders Learn that They, Too, Can Make a Difference!
Students in the 8th grade art and Spanish classes at Rincon Valley Charter School teamed up to create a bilingual flier promoting donating to and shopping at Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore. Art students competed to create the best design; Spanish students created copy for the flier in both English and Spanish. Then they all chipped in to print hundreds of the fliers using their home computers.
Once the students had printed nearly 400 fliers, they then hit the streets surrounding their campus to get the fliers onto the doorsteps of residents of St. Francis Acres, Austin Estates and the Skyhawk neighborhoods to get the word out about ReStore.
It just goes to show that you’re never too old–or too young–to make a difference by contributing to Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County.
