Habitat ReStore Donation Values: Cited Tables for Furniture and Appliances

A Habitat for Humanity ReStore donation is a different animal from a bag of clothes at a Goodwill door. ReStores deal in the big stuff: sofas, dining sets, working refrigerators, cabinets out of a kitchen remodel. The values are bigger too, which means the paperwork thresholds arrive faster. As a working answer, a standard sofa runs from about $36 in fair condition to $205 like new in the current dataset edition, a refrigerator from $80 to $260, and a full dining room set can pass $900 at the top of the published range. The tables below break it down, and every range shows where it came from.

The figures in this article come from DeductiBee's valuation dataset, edition 2026.1, which consolidates the donor value guides that charity resale organizations publish themselves. That registry includes guides published by Habitat ReStore operators, so for this category the ranges are anchored in what ReStore operations have actually printed, not in a generic thrift table stretched to cover furniture. The same dataset drives the app, the calculator, and every guide page on this site, so no number here can disagree with the product.

What ReStores accept, and why it matters for the value

Habitat ReStores are independently operated by local Habitat affiliates, and each store publishes its own acceptance rules. The pattern across them is consistent even where the specifics differ: items should be complete, working, and resellable. That standard is doing you a favor at tax time, because the same facts that get a dishwasher through the donation door, it runs, it is complete, it is clean, are the facts that support a defensible fair market value. An appliance that does not power on is generally not a deduction, whatever bin it ends up in.

Two practical notes before you load the truck. First, call ahead or check your local store's list for large items; acceptance genuinely varies by store, and an item the store declines is not a donation. Second, many ReStores offer pickup for furniture and appliances. A pickup is convenient, but the driver's slip is often thinner documentation than a donation-door receipt, so photograph the items before they leave the house and ask what written acknowledgment the affiliate provides.

Furniture donation values

Furniture is the heart of a ReStore donation, and it is where the ranges are widest. Condition tiers read the same way across this site: Like new takes the top of the published range, Good the middle, Fair the bottom, and there is deliberately no fourth tier, for the reason covered below.

Sets are the line to respect. A complete dining room set is priced as a set in the published guides, and the set range is not the sum of its pieces. Whether you donate it as one line or as a table plus six chairs, keep the description honest about what went out the door together: a set broken into parts to dodge a paperwork threshold is still one group of similar items in the IRS's eyes, which matters below.

Large appliance donation values

Appliances are where ReStore donations most often surprise people at tax time, in the good direction. A working refrigerator is one of the most valuable single household items an ordinary donor ever gives away. Working order is assumed in every range here; the published guides price appliances that run.

Document appliances the way a buyer would inspect them: a photo of the item running or plugged in where that is sensible, the model plate, and a note of age and any flaws. Publication 561's standard is what a willing buyer would actually pay, and for appliances the working-or-not question is most of that answer.

Cabinets, fixtures, and tools

This is the category that makes ReStore donations unlike any other charity drop-off: the leftovers of a remodel. The published guides in our registry price the common pieces individually.

A run of cabinets adds up the same way housewares do: piece by piece. Ten cabinets out of a kitchen is ten line items, and at good-condition values that single wall of boxes can be a $400 to $600 entry on its own. Count the doors and drawers as part of each cabinet rather than as separate lines; the published ranges assume complete units.

Building materials: where the tables honestly stop

ReStores also take lumber, tile, flooring, doors, windows, and hardware, and this is where we will not print a table. The donor guides in our registry price furniture, appliances, and fixtures; they do not publish per-unit ranges for a pallet of tile or forty feet of trim, and a number invented to fill that gap would be exactly the kind of figure this site exists to avoid. For materials, the defensible path is comparable sales: what the same goods actually sell for used, which for bulk lots is often the ReStore's own shelf price for similar stock. Photograph the lot, count the units, note the brand and condition, and record the comparable you used.

The condition rule still applies at the loading dock

Clothing and household items generally must be in good used condition or better to be deductible, per Publication 526, and household items include furniture, furnishings, and appliances. That is why these tables have no fourth column: a "poor" tier would be a column of values you are generally not allowed to claim. The ReStore acceptance standard and the tax standard point the same direction, so an item the store would not shelve is an item to leave off your list.

Receipts, acknowledgments, and Form 8283

For a donation worth less than $250, a dated receipt from the store plus your own itemized list is generally enough. At $250 or more for a single donation, the rules require a contemporaneous written acknowledgment from the organization describing the property, per Publication 1771, and a ReStore donation hits $250 with one decent piece of furniture. The acknowledgment describes; you value. Ask for it at the door, or at pickup, rather than reconstructing it in April.

Cross $500 in total noncash deductions for the year and Form 8283 generally rides along with the return, per its instructions. A single ReStore trip with a sofa, a dresser, and a working washer clears that bar at good-condition values. The form is not a problem, it is a form, and the Form 8283 checker will tell you which section you land in. The $5,000 appraisal line is the one to plan around, and for ReStore donors it is realistic: one high-end appliance suite or a whole-kitchen cabinet donation can approach it as a group of similar items.

One dataset, visible sources

Most value guides for this category either skip furniture and appliances or print numbers with no source attached. The test worth applying to any of them, including this one, is whether each range can say where it came from. Ours can: the registry behind the dataset records the published guide behind every range, including guides published by ReStore operators themselves, and items no publisher prices, like bulk building materials, get an honest blank and a method instead of an invented number. To price a specific load before you drive it over, the donation value calculator uses these same ranges, and the furniture guide carries the full category.