As the days turn warmer, the season of spring cleaning, home gardening and DIY projects for the warm months ahead is upon us. Though some of our customers decide on a new patio set or landscaping update when the first sunny day arrives, our associates begin preparing for our busiest home improvement season a full year ahead of time. Check out our timeline of what it took to prepare stores…

It’s almost spring and for The Home Depot, that means busy season is right around the corner.

This holiday season, retail stores across the country are gleaming with garland and lights, ready to supply shoppers with every gift and seasonal item on their wish list. But, how do stores prepare for Black Friday sales and the holiday shopping season? At Home Depot, our Black Friday and holiday store transition elves are known as the Merchandising Execution Team, or MET.

Martha Stewart is starting the holiday season right by hosting her first live-streamed Home Depot workshop, where she’ll showcase her favorite holiday DIY projects. In our excitement for the upcoming event, we sat down with Hannah Milman, Senior Vice President and Executive Editorial Editor of Crafts and Holiday for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, to hear about the latest trends in…

Icicle or rope? Colored or white? Indoor or outdoor? ‘Tis the season for holiday lights, and this year the first question you should ask is: incandescent or LED? While it’s easy to use the same string of lights year after year, new LED lighting technology comes with a lot of perks. Learn more about the benefits of LED holiday lights and how The Home Depot is making the switch easy for…

We couldn’t help but notice a flash of Homer bucket orange making an appearance in thousands of videos as the ALS ice bucket challenge swept the Internet.As the demand for Homer buckets grew and ice poured across the country, check out how our executives and stores rose to the challenge.So how did our store associates respond? They joined our customers in taking the challenge and supporting…

What do Husky putty knives, Ryobi drills and chocolate have in common? They’re the winning combination for building prize-worthy cookies, of course.

Eight years ago, when Desi Craig wrote her name in marker on an orange apron, she didn’t realize the impact working at The Home Depot would have on the company and herself.A driven associate, Desi has endured a long medical journey, but has been empowered by her Home Depot family as a front end supervisor at store #1944 in Ingleside, Ill.

As kids in Lufkin, Texas chug along through Ellen Trout Zoo and across Ellen Trout Lake, they’re not focused on the impact the iconic train has on the community. They’re just soaking up the sites and enjoying the ride.

Huddled together in crowded basements and spare spaces on college campuses across the country, a unique group of students is coming together to better one another. These students are veterans, and they’re working together to build a network of support as they transition from military to college life at nearly 1,300 Student Veterans of America (SVA) chapters throughout the U.S.