• Joe’s Fabric Warehouse

  102 Orchard St., at Delancey St.; 212-674-7089

  We’ll let Marc Charbonnet, a top interior designer and regular customer at Joe’s, do most of the talking here: �They can do exterior ties, complicated piping�whatever you need,� he says. �I’ve used them for some of my most demanding clients with great success. With a little direction, they can do anything that anyone in New York can, and they happen to be incredibly inexpensive.� Owner Mimi Sason and her slipcover team of four cutters will work with any of the thousands of different fabrics ($6 to $60 per yard) in stock, or you can supply your own. One of those tailors will come to your house and make a pattern directly on your couch (slipcovers range from $500 to $750), chair ($250 to $500), love seat ($350 to $600), or ottoman ($150 to $250) and then return two or three weeks later for a final fitting. The result is a sleek design choice, a simple way to change your room with the seasons, or a fine way to get extra years out of that threadbare chair. As Sason points out, �it’s half the price of upholstering.�

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