Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity will partner with the 2019 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival to create a Habitat ReStore Lounge that will showcase recycled and upcycled items from the store that are kept out of area landfills.

The lounge will be created in the days before Bonnaroo opens on Thursday, June 13 and displayed throughout the event. It will feature items crafted by local artists, including Diane Stockard, Sarah Stob, Selina Hyzer, artists from Painting with a Twist and others.

Rutherford County Habitat ReStores, located at 850 Mercury Blvd, Murfreesboro, and 413 Nissan Blvd., Smyrna, keep over 560 tons of materials out of area landfills every year. The stores take donations of household goods including appliances, furniture, building materials, lighting, flooring, doors and windows, and sell them to the general public at highly discounted prices.

Earlier in the year, RCHFH received a $10,000 grant from the Bonnaroo Works Fund and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to promote recycling and solid waste reduction. Proceeds from the Habitat ReStores go towards the administrative costs of the nonprofit so that monetary donations can be allocated to the construction of houses.

Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit Christian housing ministry, seeks to bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope. This is done through building quality, affordable, sustainable houses while partnering alongside working families. Homes are built by RCHFH construction staff, partner families and community volunteers. After a home is completed, it is sold to the family at no profit with an affordable monthly mortgage.