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If you’ve ever had your hardwood floors refinished you know that choosing the right stain is incredibly stressful. You are, after all, coating the biggest surface in your home with something that doesn’t easily come off, and you want it to be right. Enter Hudson Home. This design-build firm, whose projects have been featured numerous times in our magazine, is now offering a program called Hardwood by Hudson Home, with services including refurbishment and/or re-staining of existing floors and new floor installation. As with wall color, furniture placement, and everything, really, it’s nice to have an experienced designer tell you what will look good—and then do it for you. Contact Arash Ansari at 773-907-5500 ext. 246 or arash@hudsonhomeinc.com for a free consultation.

—GINA BAZER

Sawbridge Studios is offering 20 percent off all Pearson upholstered dining chairs, sofas, lounge chairs, and ottomans, through October 15.

–JAN PARR

Virtu is a cute little Bucktown shop that’s been around for a while, and every time I go in I’m reminded of why I like it so much. Owner Julie Hororwitz Jackson carries practical and fun items such as these FDA-grade silicone placemats ($18 each; shown above) by Modern-Twist, along with doilies ($25 per pair) and coasters ($23 for box of 4). Cute easy-to-clean placemats are a very good investment in my book.

—GINA BAZER

I confess that European Furniture Importers on Grand is one of those showrooms I tend to forget about, even though I bought some stools there a few years ago. So I was happy to get a note from them about two new pieces, both from Cattelan Italia. The Goblin table by Modus Studio has a thick glass top on a solid walnut or oakwood stained wenge base. It comes in several sizes and shapes. The Kayak sideboard by Andrea Lucatello comes in polished white or black lacquered wood and has a three-dimensional jewel design on the doors.

—JAN PARR

  Post 27 are having a fun joint event this weekend called Vintage Processing Plant, taking place at both stores. “We have amassed an amazing amount of vintage planters, and we’re planting up each one,” says the press release. All plants will be for sale. —GINA BAZER

Going on today through the rest of the weekend, Vintage Pine’s Fall Festival, featuring new shipments of antiques from France, England, and the Netherlands, and the opening of a new shop, Salvage Sisters, a collaboration between 11 local interior designers (including real estate stager Bethany Souza, a regular on HGTV’s “Designed to Sell,” and custom linen designer Maida Lin) who have come together to sell their vintage wares. Check Vintage Pine’s website for details.

—GINA BAZER

Morlen Sinoway just got these fun cardboard animals, designed by an architect who decided to get creative with some leftover materials at the office. They come in two sizes: $35 for an approximately five-inch-high beast, $120 for eighteen inches high. Sold flatpacked in an envelope, they come with directions for easy assembly. Fun gift for a kid, especially one with designphiles for parents. Morlen also carries these awesome felt rugs. What’s great about them—in addition to the fact that felt is so darn cozy, durable, and unexpected on the floor—is that you can order them for about $20 a square foot in custom colors, designs, and sizes (not so great is that it takes 10 weeks for delivery—though good things come to those who wait!). I love how the stripes are sort of fuzzy, rather than hard; it’s a soft-yet-modern look, and you can go wide or thin for the stripes. The display samples in the store are currently 10 percent off, including the runner shown above ($504).

—GINA BAZER