The steel-framed, coarse-bristled Boot Scraper doormat is an affordable slush-defense system ($26 at GRDN, 103 Hoyt St., nr. Atlantic Ave., Boerum Hill; 718-797-3628).
Tom Dixon’s solid-birch stackable chairs channel ever-efficient Japanese architecture (from $382.50 each at ABC Carpet and Home, 881 Broadway, at 19th St.; 212-473-3000).
The Marcus Samuelsson– endorsed BlueStar stove packs restaurant-kitchen features into a small-apartment appliance (from $5,388 at Krup’s Kitchen & Bath, 11 W. 18th St., nr. Fifth Ave.; 212-243-5787).