2025 Hardware Stores Guide

You’re likely familiar with this popular hardware store chain, which has 4,400 stores across the U.S. The Kitty Hawk location offers friendly service and expert advice with a modest size. You’ll find good prices on everything from hardware, gardening supplies, pet food, paint and other home essentials.

A full-service hardware store.

A full service car parts store

Southern Outer Banks homeowners and residents alike will find a wide array of options when it comes to flooring, without ever venturing off of Hatteras Island, thanks to Cape Hatteras Carpet. Established for years and able to help with a wide array of flooring and remodeling needs, this trusted business is a preferred go-to for locals and second homeowners alike for a wide variety of projects in their home by the sea.

One of the newer auto parts stores on the Outer Banks, Car Quest is a locally-owned chain store that has what vehicle owners need to take care of anything from a motorcycle to a pickup truck to a SUV. Basic supplies like oil and transmission fluid can be found here, as well as summer needs like air conditioner kits and boosters, sun protection window tint, sun shades for windows and antifreeze/coolant for the radiator. The store stocks a good supply of car wash equipment and cleaners and waxes, too. Plus traveling road warriors can come here to find such necessities as  trailer hitches and new batteries.  Car Quest also custom makes high pressure hydraulic hoses and custom mixes vehicle paint colors. The store also carries some marine supplies for boaters. 

A great stop for a wide variety of foods including some health food - rare on Hatteras Island.

Home Depot is widely recognized as the hardware, lumber and do-it-yourself home improvement authority. Whether you are building, renovating, redecorating or just making improvements, Home Depot will have the materials and tools you need as well as ideas and inspiration. 

You could spend all day in Kellogg’s Cottage Shop and still not see everything it offers. From specialty sauces and snacks, to hardware, to home and lawn maintenance and décor and even pet supplies, there’s little you won’t be able to find there.As soon as you enter, you’re invited to sample some of the Cottage Shop’s own brand of sauces and snacks, like sea-salted and black-peppered peanuts, or corn and black bean salsa, and you can also sip on a fresh cup of coffee while you browse the store’s many treasures.The fake snow the store invites all to touch is a reminder to stop by the Christmas section, which offers a lovely selection of old-style ornaments designed around beach and ocean themes.In addition to basic hardware items for most maintenance needs, there are beautiful pieces for home décor, from art prints to accent and patio furniture. For children there are games galore including a beautiful, eclectic collection of marbles of many sizes, almost too pretty to play around with.Also available are personal accessories like Viva beaded jewelry, fashionable scarves, cloth hand or tote bags, hats and gloves, as well as greeting cards and gifts for special occasions, weddings and holidays.”For those building rental or second homes, Kellogg’s offers comprehensive kitchen, bedding, bath and recreational packages designed to accommodate homes ranging in size from 12 to 24 guests or more.In a nutshell, the Cottage Shop hopes to “fulfill the finishing touches needed to make a house a home.”

Kellogg Supply Company, is the trusted destination for all your building materials & home improvement needs on the Outer Banks and surrounding areas of North Carolina.

From Hatteras to Corolla, mariners can load up on all of the supplies they need at this unique shop that specializes in boating supplies throughout the Outer Banks. Kitty Hawk Marine features everything that a visitor or local resident will need for a fun day on the water, from essential supplies like lifejackets and life preservers to fishing tackle for dropping a line, and as a result, it’s a great resource for mariners throughout the Outer Banks.

Have a boat? You’d probably like what this store has to offer. Top shelf electronic equipment from major manufacturers is available here for fish-finding, marine communications, entertainment and navigation needs. This store specializes in sales and service of new and used marine electronics, including Furuno, Garmin, Northstar, Shakespeare Antennas, Simrad, Icom, Standard Horizon, JL Audio, Fusion and Poly-Planar. Credit is given for trade-in equipment, after it is inspected and tested. Repair service is also available for Furuno, Northstar and Garmin products. The store displays select equipment, including marine radios, GPS, autopilots, broadband radar, satellite TV antennas, Sirius Marine Weather and various electronic accessories and parts.

From computer repair to home office supplies, Staples is the modern version of the old stationary store.  And it does in fact sell stationary, as well as photo paper, printer paper, notebooks and legal pads. Nearly anything you need for a school project or an office presentation is available here, from pens to paper clips, to yes, staples. This chain store, located next to TJ Maxx in Nags Head, is well organized and has signs pointing customers to the products they need. In addition to standard office necessities, Staples also stocks a large supply of computer equipment and laptops; digital cameras and accessories; Kindle e-readers; digital recorders and GPS; wireless technology and accessories; and smart phone accessories.  There is an excellent selection of computer programs, including for Mac. A variety of desks, file cabinets and rolling desk chairs can be found at the rear of the store. 

Located in south Hatteras, Teach's Lair is a full service marina which includes a large Ship’s Store and The Roost Bait and Tackle Shop.The store is stocked full with just about anything you’ll need during your fishing trip or Outer Banks vacation. Along with fishing and boating supplies, the shelves and racks carry lots of T-shirts - short and long-sleeved - hats, sunglasses, cozies and convenience-store grocery items - including a large selection of snacks and drinks.“The Roost” Bait and Tackle Shop section of the store is filled with tackle, bait, fishing/crabbing nets and a huge variety of fishing rods for sale or rent - for boat, pier or surf fishing. Coolers and other essential supplies are of course for sale as well. Teach’s Lair Marina and Ship’s Store also does fishing rod repairs and promises to have whatever you’re looking for, whether your :interested in offshore, inshore or sound fishing  - or “wreck driving or dockage for your boat. Teach’s website offers links on lodging, fishing regulations and a daily fishing report. Even if you’re not coming to the Outer Banks to fish, you can still visit the marina for food and supplies and the beautiful Pamlico Sound views and breathtaking sunsets - or come and watch the boat Captains unload their daily catches onto the docks. The Marina and Stores are open year-round with an altered schedule off-season.

Sometimes you just want to visit a Walmart. Fortunately, Walmart is conveniently located at milepost 1, right as you enter the Outer Banks from the Wright Memorial Bridge. 

This outfitter, one of 316 in the U.S. and abroad, offers boaters of every stripe just about anything they need to keep their vessel ship-shape, whether it’s used for work or for fun. The store has rows and rows of shelves with boat supplies and equipment for everything from a fishing boat to sailboats to kayaks. There are even some kayaks for sale.  Clothing in stock includes not just the requisite T-shirts and shorts, but also high-quality jackets that are truly wind- and water-proof.  A good selection of electronics, including autopilots, radar and fish-finders are in stock, as well as maintenance, plumbing, electrical and engine supplies. Often, if it can’t be found here, it can be delivered from supply warehouses.  And if it’s not in stock, whatever item you need can no doubt be found in the more than 1000-page West Marine annual catalogue available at the store.