Family owned and in the same location since 1741, Cowls Building Supply serves the residents of Western Massachusetts with a unique combination of lumber, building materials, paint, hardware, and expert, friendly service. Cowls Building Supply has a trained veteran staff in both sales and operational support.
Ownership and senior management is fully engaged in the attention to our customers' needs. Cowls Building Supply can provide the quality materials you need for your project. Whether you are building a new home, home addition, or remodeling an existing space, Cowls is the local quality home center to help you.
Visit our Kitchen Design Showroom, the Benjamin Moore Paint Store at Cowls, and our new Flooring Showroom. You'll find a caring team with the combined knowledge and expertise to answer all your questions, help you estimate your choices, and design the correct layout for your project.
Ownership and senior management is fully engaged in the attention to our customers' needs. Cowls Building Supply can provide the quality materials you need for your project. Whether you are building a new home, home addition, or remodeling an existing space, Cowls is the local quality home center to help you.
Visit our Kitchen Design Showroom, the Benjamin Moore Paint Store at Cowls, and our new Flooring Showroom. You'll find a caring team with the combined knowledge and expertise to answer all your questions, help you estimate your choices, and design the correct layout for your project.
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Cowls Building Supply is more than a typical lumber and hardware store; it is a unique lumber and building-materials business that blends the best of the last three centuries with the best of the new. Family owned and operated since 1741-our history, veteran staff, and contributions to local arts and education set us apart from the competition.
Does it have a spacious kitchen for relaxing and entertaining with the wine cabinet you have always dreamed of? Maybe you are looking for a granite countertop and the elegance of a solid hardwood floor. Maybe you are ready to expand your home with a roomy addition or update your home with new siding, windows or doors?
It is time to get inspired. We promise to make choosing windows simple, easy and exciting! We will explain and show you all the new window and door technologies that will help save on your home's heating and cooling costs while adding character to the rooms. At Cowls Building Supply, we carry a full line of solid wood, vinyl, clad and aluminum windows in styles, shapes and sizes to fit any purpose and every personality.
Our exterior and interior door styles include: wood, fiberglass, steel, and endless styles with glass. We also offer Installation. It is no wonder that homeowners, builders and remodelers choose and trust Cowls Building Supply for all of their window/door replacement and new construction projects. Cowls Building Supply will make your experience selecting the right entry or interior door exciting!
Just within our showroom we have counters in laminate, granite, soapstone, Corian, wood and quartz. So, if seeing is believing, be sure to check out our showroom. We have a large selection of laminate samples from Formica and Wilsonart. If you haven't looked at laminate in a few years you will be surprised at how good they look.
Reviews (10)
Daniel Reis
Jul 27, 2021
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The guy who helped me was extremely friendly and really went out of his way. they certainly know a lot about building and can help with technical problems. they don't have the largest selection of individual screws and bolts and such in the universe but I'm not sure other hardware stores in the area are better. I haven't been to many yet. in any case it's a lot more manageable than Home Depot and it has probably most of what someone would need for most jobs. I'll go to Home Depot only when I have to :-)
Zhem Behr
Jun 30, 2021
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I used to think that Cowls only carried wood. That was a long time ago. Now I know they carry more than most of the big chains around, and I know that by purchasing it from here that I'm doing a good thing for local business and that I'm keeping my money local, as opposed to some CEO in a faraway place. I can't tell you how many times I look for something either in home repair or new construction, and Cowls always has what I need!
With competitive pricing, and really awesome staff, Cowls should be your One stop shop for all materials for building and construction. A+++!!!
With competitive pricing, and really awesome staff, Cowls should be your One stop shop for all materials for building and construction. A+++!!!
Nm Reade
Apr 18, 2021
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Best lumber yard I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with quite a few. Yeah, they're nicer than most of the rest, but I've also bought lumber there that cost LESS than the big boxes or even online mill-direct places and was much higher quality. I don't how they do it, but they do. I wish they'd expand to both sides of the river!
Paul Wilson
Mar 23, 2021
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A big reason I chose to shop at Cowls over other big box stores like Home Depot or Lowe's is to support local small businesses. Cowls is far from that, owned by the largest private landowner in MA, it is local but not small. Additionally, while big box stores offer a full return policy no question asked you don't have that same protection at Cowls. It's great for picking up small things but I would urge you to consider big box stores for larger purchases.
Pmw
Nov 25, 2020
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Bruce Young
Sep 19, 2020
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Michael Ash
Jun 15, 2020
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We've gone to Cowls ever since we moved to Amherst in 1999. The quality of the products and the friendly knowledgeable service are unrivaled.
The prices at the big box stores are not better, and the value at Cowls vastly outstrips that of the big box stores.
We have purchased tools, lumber, and basic hardware, and also doors, windows, and our entire kitchen (cabinets, counters, island, etc). Cowls has my highest recommendation.
The prices at the big box stores are not better, and the value at Cowls vastly outstrips that of the big box stores.
We have purchased tools, lumber, and basic hardware, and also doors, windows, and our entire kitchen (cabinets, counters, island, etc). Cowls has my highest recommendation.
John Jackson
Jun 08, 2018
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Liam Theis
Aug 27, 2017
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I've been going to Cowls since I was a little kid. My dad brought me there for their little wooden plane kits when he would pick up lumber for work. The guys that work there are salt of the earth amazing humans. They know how to satisfy your needs and actually care to do so. Local businesses are the best and Cowls blows the other hardware or lumber store national chains out of the water.
Diane Kaeding
Oct 02, 2012
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My husband and I recently went to Cowls to look at flooring. We were still undecided on what we wanted, and they took the time to help us make a wonderful choice. They know their products well, and made good recommendations without being pushy. We appreciated their friendliness, patience, and knowledge, as well as their reasonable prices too. We will definitely be going back for future projects!