2025 Outer Banks Home & Garden Centers 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.

At Central Garden Center & Nursery, you can expect to get top-notch service, products and plants. The family-owned and operated business has been in Kitty Hawk and Elizabeth City since 1966 and specializes in plants that will withstand harsh coastal conditions as well as those milder conditions found inland. Whether you are looking for lawn care, beach grasses or plants, Central Garden Center is bound to have what you are looking for.

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.”

After 13 years of providing customers on the northern Outer Banks with landscaping and gardening services, Kitty Hawk Garden Center is known and trusted among residents and vacation home owners alike. Along with landscaping services, the garden center sells a wide selection of plants, blooming bushes and other greenery that thrive in the Outer Banks environment. Don’t forget to stop inside to check out the diverse selection of pots, planters, garden needs and other hard goods. A trip to Kitty Hawk Garden Center, nestled in the maritime forest along Kitty Hawk Road, is a treat at any time of year.

We're celebrating 40 years at Morris Farm Market and it's another beautiful day to hang out on the farm! There's so much to do here; the music is setting up for your entertainment and the craft and food truck vendors are also setting up so you can check out their wares. In the market, we have fresh produce, an amazing bakery with pies, cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls and breads. In the back of the market, you'll find treasures perfect for your home decorating needs. With the food trucks, we have gumbo, Brunswick stew, nachos, lamp gyros, softshell crab sandwiches, quesadillas and so much more!

A full-service gardening center with lots of service options. 

A Mecca for jewelry and art with a working studio.

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.