Our Story

 

Welcome to Cottage Treasures Mercantile

Featuring Estate Sale Overrun, Consignment, Street Finds, Repurposed and Refurbished Material, and Locally Hand-Crafted Goods

This multi-faceted store was born out of long history of dealing with stuff. Born the son of a hoarder here in the land of plenty, it's been long and tumultuous road. As a result, I have come to identify one of my superpowers to be organizational skills, If you have a messy garage, I am your man.

There are two things happening on a regular basis here in the Greater Los Angeles Basin. People are dying and leaving their stuff to their families to deal with. And people are losing their homes to foreclosure. Either way, the result is an excess of stuff. 

I currently work in estate sale services and am finding that what is left over from a weekend sale, is largely a burden. Clean-out companies exist to deal with this. Often times and quite sadly, perfectly good product, especially furniture, goes to the landfill. Try giving a piano away. 

Seeing this condition, I decided that the problem can become the solution, and am opening a thrift store which I intend to be a scalable model. At its core, Cottage Treasures Mercantile is modeling itself after what Habitat For Humanity is doing through its ReStore operation. Last year they built 20 homes, This year they are on track for 60.

Cottage Treasures Mercantile, under the umbrella of Cottage Industries and Cottage Treasures California, is dedicated to raising awareness and money for housing and careers. This through a unique and innovative approach to job training. 

We are about 30 or so days away from opening our doors for business but we are inviting the community to come in for a tour and sign our guest book so that we can let you know when our grand opening will be.

We look forward to seeing you and sharing our adventure through the story of stuff which is an integral part of our history as a country as well as a testament to the development of stuff itself. People love antiques, in part, because the care and quality that went into their creation.

 

 

 

Partnering with churches, neighborhood groups and civic bodies.

 

Estate sale over run

 

We provide clean out services.

We're dedicated to creating jobs for veterans and community members. 

 

Visit our store for giveaways, auctions and donations!