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Determined to fix up this or that in your home? Start with a visit to—and advice from—these shops around the region
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to shape up your Boston-area abode, then you’re likely looking for a handy neighborhood hardware store for materials, tools, and advice. Try these 12.
They are each the sort of place where the staff can provide ready tips and where the selection runs well beyond hammers and potting soil. They’re all also conveniently located within their neighborhoods, many just off the T.
Read MoreSteps from the Green Line, this store has an almost freakishly varied selection of goods and tools for the home and the yard.
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The roots of this store just off the Green Line stretch back to 1951. It offers an array of services, too, including glass-cutting and window-blind repair.
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This store off the Turnpike has a lot to recommend it, with basically anything for the home or the yard as well as locksmith services.
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The Harvard Square mainstay across the street from the Red Line has several levels of every species of tool and homeware as well as yard staples such as pots and dirt.
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This spot typifies the neighborhood hardware stores throughout the region, with a knowledgeable staff and a deep well of supplies (and the willingness to order or to refer if something’s not in stock).
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This Central Square spot off the Red Line has a deep selection of garden and home material.
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This store goes back to 1975, and offers a variety of supplies and services, including glass-cutting.
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This is a sizable neighborhood shop with a sizable selection of just about everything fixer-upper-related. Dating to 1934, it might also be Boston proper’s oldest hardware store.
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This Beacon Hill institution dates to 1948, and includes pretty much anything one would need to outfit or upgrade a house or a yard.
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This South End spot has an ideal location off I-93 and in one of the faster-changing areas of Boston. It’s got a wide array of homewares and tools.
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This is another location with a deep well of products and the wherewithal to order what’s not in stock. It’s a short stroll from the Orange Line too.
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The thing about this retailer is that it’s ostensibly there to supply theaters, dramatic productions, etc., but it offers its goods to anyone off the street just trying to fix up this or that. Perhaps that’s why it tags itself “not your ordinary hardware store.”
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Steps from the Green Line, this store has an almost freakishly varied selection of goods and tools for the home and the yard.
The roots of this store just off the Green Line stretch back to 1951. It offers an array of services, too, including glass-cutting and window-blind repair.
This store off the Turnpike has a lot to recommend it, with basically anything for the home or the yard as well as locksmith services.
The Harvard Square mainstay across the street from the Red Line has several levels of every species of tool and homeware as well as yard staples such as pots and dirt.
This spot typifies the neighborhood hardware stores throughout the region, with a knowledgeable staff and a deep well of supplies (and the willingness to order or to refer if something’s not in stock).
This Central Square spot off the Red Line has a deep selection of garden and home material.
This store goes back to 1975, and offers a variety of supplies and services, including glass-cutting.
This is a sizable neighborhood shop with a sizable selection of just about everything fixer-upper-related. Dating to 1934, it might also be Boston proper’s oldest hardware store.
This Beacon Hill institution dates to 1948, and includes pretty much anything one would need to outfit or upgrade a house or a yard.
This South End spot has an ideal location off I-93 and in one of the faster-changing areas of Boston. It’s got a wide array of homewares and tools.
This is another location with a deep well of products and the wherewithal to order what’s not in stock. It’s a short stroll from the Orange Line too.
The thing about this retailer is that it’s ostensibly there to supply theaters, dramatic productions, etc., but it offers its goods to anyone off the street just trying to fix up this or that. Perhaps that’s why it tags itself “not your ordinary hardware store.”