No interest for one year, no money down! Shop today, installed tomorrow! Pick among our hundreds of samples, beautiful carpeting brought right to your home! You sit watching TV, too lazy to get off your ass. Yeah, one simple call… Loser! Don’t pick up the phone and dial a jingle unless you want a roomful of shredded rags and a page full of hidden charges. Installation is free but what about delivery? Even “reputable” places like Home Depot have started taking customers on the great magic carpet ride, as closets and doorways become “rooms” and that little gold strip that is put over the threshold requires an hours’ labor at $40 per. Your solution to keeping your feet warm this winter—buy one of the remnants at Exhibitors Carpets or Exposition Flooring. If it costs you more than $150 you are overpaying. The padding should cost no more than $1.30 a foot. With the money you can save you can buy yourself a new television.
Exhibitors Carpets, 4300 W. Montrose, 4537 S. Archer, (773)283-0100; Exposition Flooring, 5718 N. Broadway, (773)784-5600
Best of Chicago 2005 was written by Dave Chamberlain, Brian Hieggelke, Melissa Lane, Tom Lynch, Ray Pride, David Witter, Michael Workman
With additional contributions by Mike Barr, Ted C. Fishman, Jessica Herman, Adrienne Hill, Mary Susan Littlepage, Nina Metz, Kathy O¹Neill, Trish Smith