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Early arrivals at the “Clear the Floor Sale” Monday at Scentimental Gardens, the antiques, furniture, decor and garden shop in Geneva, will get some extra goodies. Be there at 9 a.m. Monday and enter a drawing for an extra 25 percent discount most items. Inventory will be on sale until Jan. 12.
428 W. State St., Geneva, 630-232-1303,scentimental gardens.com.
— Beth Botts
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Artists Frame Service is staging its once-a-month Sunday Frame Outlet Sale on Jan. 4. Shoppers will find bargains (up to 80 percent off) on hundreds of custom picture frames with minor miscuts and misfits. Those who purchase an outlet frame during the sale and use it for custom framing at the store get 30 percent to 40 percent off the price of the framing job.
1867 N. Clybourn Ave., 773-248-2800, artists frameservice.com.
— Karen Klages
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All holiday decor is deeply discounted at Grand Street Gardens and other inventory is on sale through Dec. 31. The store at the edge of Ukrainian Village will be closed Thursday to Jan. 8 for a revamp, says landscape czarina Christy Webber, who bought it last fall. The shop has been known for a wide selection of containers, as well as organic gardening supplies and pet foods. Webber, who built a one-woman, one-pickup-truck business into one of Chicago’s largest landscape firms with a 12.5-acre sustainably designed headquarters on a reclaimed West Side brownfield, is not known to dream small, so even in hard times we can’t wait to see what she will do with this urban-garden center.
Grand Street Gardens, 2200 W. Grand Ave., 312-829-8200. Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 31, grandstreetgardens.com.
— Beth Botts
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From the village of Skokie to Skokie Boulevard: That’s the trajectory of 50-year-old family-owned business Design Studio Furniture, which in November moved to its new Northbrook location. The 15,000-square-foot showroom is significantly scaled down from its former 45,000-square-feet in Skokie but still offers the same in-house Interior Design Center and contemporary home furnishings. The new address keeps the business’ locations at three, with one store downtown and a warehouse outlet in Elk Grove.
307 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook, 847-272-6070, design studiofurniture.com.
— Shaila Wunderlich
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Looking for a smaller, cheaper alternative to the big tapestry exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago? Get out to 111-year-old Evanston business Minasian Rug Co. to see their temporary collection of Indonesian textiles before the exhibit’s end on Jan. 10. “Island Magic: Court and Tribal Textiles from Indonesia” showcases more than 100 antique tapestries, batiks, ritual cloths, sarongs and more brought in from private New York collectors. All items are for sale.
1244 Chicago Ave., Evanston, 847-864-1010, minasian.com.
— Shaila Wunderlich
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