Please take our modified Holiday Hours into account when planning your Salvage Gift Shopping!

Give us a call at 206-763-6929 (Seattle) or 253-267-0820 (Tacoma) or email seattle@seconduse.com or tacoma@seconduse.com with any questions!

Join us on Thursday, December 11th, for our second annual Royal Hunter Holiday Happy Hour!

From 5 PM to 7 PM, The Royal Hunter at Second Use Seattle, will be awash in Holiday Glow with festive refreshments, a selection of thoughtfully curated giftables, and 25% off ALL of our remaining Holiday Decor.

We will have a visit from our very own Salvage Santa and will be offering Polaroid photo keepsakes of you (or your pet!) for a token $5 donation to our neighborhood food bank, Northwest Harvest Community Market!

See ya there!

The Royal Hunter is located in the front entrance Second Use Seattle is at: 3223 6th Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98134. Call 206-763-6929 with any questions!

Ditch the Big Box Stores this year, snag some sweet deals, and support local small businesses this Holiday Season!

Enjoy 15% off ALL inventory in both Second Use locations, ALL DAY LONG!

Seattle Only: Shop our Staff Made Market and find some one of a kind handmade treasures, crafted by our very own Staff Artisans! Get cozy and sip on some small batch, sustainably harvested coffee, roasted locally by Renovators Roast! Check out The Royal Hunter for some festive curated giftables!

Come get Holly Jolly with us!

Seattle: 3223 6th Ave. S. Seattle 98134 – 206-763-6929

Tacoma:2328 Fawcett Ave. Tacoma 98402 – 253-267-0820

From that humble workshop in Tacoma, the Willits Brothers Canoe Company built nearly a thousand boats over six decades. Their signature 17-foot design—red cedar planking, mahogany gunnels, and white oak stems—became a Northwest icon, celebrated for its beauty, balance, and enduring quality. The brothers never advertised. Their reputation traveled by word of mouth, carried by those who paddled their boats across quiet lakes and wide rivers, showing off their beautiful bespoke canoes.

When the Willits family, historians, and preservationists recently came together to document the factory site, a remarkable effort was made to preserve its legacy. The majority of the collection—canoes, records, photographs, and tools—now resides with the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum, where it continues to tell the story of the Willits brothers and their devotion to craft.

Before the workshop was cleared, several Willits experts carefully reviewed each remaining item. The pieces that were not essential to the museum’s historical narrative—offcuts, patterns, tools, work tables, and other nostalgic remnants of the shop—were entrusted to Second Use Tacoma for salvage. Every single piece was cataloged, tagged, and recorded, preserving the details of its origin and use.

These salvaged materials carry the quiet authenticity of the Willits work, the boards that framed a legacy of patience and precision. Though the canoes now rest in museums and private collections around the world, the spirit of the place remains—alive in the grain of reclaimed wood, ready to be reimagined in new hands. Keeping Tacoma History in Tacoma!

Second Use Tacoma is proud to give these materials a second life—connecting the craftsmanship of the past with the creativity of the present. In every salvaged piece , the story of the Willits brothers continues to float on.

You can find items from this job in stock on our website under Job #925T6073 .

What: Fall Fest 2025

Where: 3223 6th Ave, S. Seattle, 98134

When: Activities from 11 AM to 4 PM, Sale and Store Hours, 9 AM to 5:30 PM

Note: 20% off Sale at both our Seattle & Tacoma Locations, Activities in Seattle Only. 

2 hr. Hold Policy will be active.

If you’ve spent time in the high desert of the West, you’ve seen juniper trees. They’re tough, scrappy, and—thanks to decades of fire suppression—way too plentiful. Once, this land was open grassland, but now juniper has taken over, sucking up scarce water, causing erosion, and crowding out native plants and wildlife.

That’s why we’re excited to carry Restoration Juniper from Sustainable Northwest Wood, at Second Use. This wood is sourced from ecosystem restoration projects in Eastern Oregon, where removing juniper is helping bring back sagebrush steppe habitat, improve conditions for threatened species like Sage Grouse and Salmon, and restore the flow of water in fragile desert streams. We are currently stocking 2×6 Decking, made from Restoration Juniper, in lengths of around 8.5-9′. This material is sold by the Linear Foot, at $3.50/LF. Item #1288019. Check it out!

And beyond the environmental benefits, the material itself is incredible. Juniper is naturally rot-resistant—no chemicals or treatments required—making it perfect for outdoor projects like garden boxes, decking, fencing, siding, or landscaping. Indoors, it brings a warm, one-of-a-kind character to butcher block, flooring, accent walls, or even ceiling paneling. Strong, durable, and beautiful—this is wood that’s meant to be used and enjoyed.

So when you purchase this material at Second Use, you’re not just getting high-quality reclaimed material—you’re helping heal a landscape, sustain local communities, and bring a little bit of the high desert into your home. How cool is that?

This material is currently available at our Seattle location. Give us a call to check stock levels and read more about Restoration Juniper on Sustainable Northwest Wood’s website, here! We can’t wait to see what you do with this great material!

Second Use fan and customer Greg H., was kind enough to submit some of his projects, which largely feature materials from our store(s)! First up, we’ve got 2 side tables that are perfectly rustic, celebrate the unique features of live edge lumber, and fit their new spaces like a dream!

Thanks for sharing, Greg! Keep up the good work!

Got projects to show off? Email photos to customerprojects@seconduse.com

This kitchen makeover Tacoma customer Heather shared with us is a perfect example of what you can do with a creative eye, some patience, and of course the bevy of reclaimed materials you’ll find in our stores!

Heather was excited to point out all of the tasty salvaged tidbits she cooked up in her kitchen:

“Stuff from the Tacoma Second Use is all over our kitchen now!”

“First came the cabinet handles. Then we found the live edge acacia butcher block and the huge sink. Then we found the subway tile and the edge trim bits. The latest was ripping out the ancient uppers and replacing them with open shelving made from reclaimed high school bleacher foot boards.”

“Bonus that we found the chicken on top of everything and bought it on a whim!”

Heather did a great job incorporating reclaimed materials into her project and so can you! Stop by, get inspired, find that DIY spirit, and email you project photos to customerprojects@seconduse.com, for a little store credit as a ‘Thank You!’.