All of the pieces of a home rehab – sinks, doors, fixtures, furnaces, to name a few – fall neatly into place at Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity Inc.’s relocated offices and ReStore at 2200 E. Euclid Ave.

In fact, those pieces can fall wherever Executive Director Lance Henning and staff will allow with a move to new digs on Dec. 1.

Earlier this year, the nonprofit housing organization paid $1.125 million for a former lumberyard and spent another $1 million rehabilitating the 36,000-square-foot main building and exterior storage units.

The funds, including about $250,000 in in-kind contributions, were raised as part of Habitat’s “It Starts at Home” capital campaign, which had raised $4.1 million of its $5.75 million goal as of mid-November.

“We are extremely thankful for the way the community has responded,” Henning said.

Henning said the capital campaign is a push to expand Habitat’s efforts to place low-income families into new homes, renovate existing houses and rejuvenate neighborhoods.

The new ReStore provides all the conveniences – and space – that the former location at 2341 Second Ave. lacked. For one, it has space, including a cavernous retail area for the display of construction materials.

It also has room for patrons to park. Anyone visiting the former store has come to white-knuckle terms with the cramped parking lot that promised fender benders and near misses for people dropping off donations or loading materials for a home repair project.

The new building also has modern heating and cooling and larger classrooms.

With additional space for storage and shipping, Habitat for Humanity will be able to accept items that it would have been unable to accommodate at the Second Avenue store.

Case in point is the delivery of six semitrailer truck loads of patio pavers.

“We would have had no idea what to do with that kind of donation. Now, a whole bunch of people are going to make nice patios with that,” Henning said.