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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nJill has bought pretty much every fixture and tool imaginable from the ReStore over the years, including refrigerators, toilets, microwaves, drawers, tile, cabinets, wood, brick, insulation, water heaters and paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI bought drawers 20 years ago and I keep finding uses for them,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jill\u2019s involvement with Habitat goes beyond shopping for nifty finds; she also cares deeply about the organization\u2019s mission of affordable homeownership for everyone. She lived in the Cully neighborhood while Habitat was building a community there a few years ago, so she volunteered at the construction site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She learned how to do interior finishing work, caulking, painting and minor woodworking. She worked alongside the woman who would eventually move into that home and got to learn about her family.
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\u201cI got to meet her children and husband when they did the ribbon cutting,\u201d Jill said. \u201cI just got really involved emotionally.\u201d
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She also likes how each ReStore donation means one more item that was saved from a landfill. Jill said she sings Habitat\u2019s praises to anyone who will listen, mainly to her family, to whom she will often text photos of ReStore items she thinks they would like.
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\u201cIt annoys some members of my family, but I don’t care because I want to support,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cThis is a great nonprofit. The money goes to a good cause.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jill is currently living in her eighth fixer-upper, and she thinks this one may be her last, although she never knows what lies around the corner. She still enjoys working on projects at her leisure, drawing things out on paper and seeing where her creativity takes her.
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\u201cI\u2019m not doing cheap remodels; I’m actually doing something that’s going to make the house attractive and a better place to live,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause life is short, right?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jill Hofmann has a vision for things. She has a keen eye for restoring homes of any age to their original character, keeping in mind feng shui: the Chinese practice of arranging pieces in living spaces to create balance with the natural world.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Over the past 25 years, with the help of Habitat ReStores, Jill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n