Coakley Home and Hardware is a great hometown store and an excellent fixture in Saranac Lake, widely considered the best and friendliest hardware store in the area. It provides friendly, personal, warm, kind, and reliable service with incredibly knowledgeable and helpful staff. The store offers an impressively vast inventory, including a huge Milwaukee selection and good indoor lights for house plants, with great help from departments like paint. They are known for answering questions, finding products, and efficiently handling special orders. The business is noted for its hands-on customer service and is transitioning to an employee-owned model. With its right prices and perks like free popcorn, it is the best bet for hardware needs in town and well worth a visit.
Jeff has a wonderful job working with us and designing our kitchen and our cabinets. We cannot say enough good about the work that he is done.
December 2025
Looks like the carry everything and anything you may need.
July 2025
Friendly, personal and reliable service. Warm greeting upon entering store. They recognized me from before and fixed my table lamp within an hour. Well worth it. Chuck's the best.
