Nate Berkus Quotes

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I love helping people put their homes in order.

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I like to have my houses fully decorated when I move in so I can actually enjoy them. Nothing's more annoying than trying to have breakfast and having to unpack boxes just to get a butter knife! It's hell!

I'm always moving furniture and things around in my house.

My former assistant used to tell me I have a problem with cushions and she was totally right. The reason is because I'm constantly rearranging things in my house. And if I can't move a whole piece of furniture, the easiest thing to rearrange is cushions. I like to keep things fresh.

My home in Moga has turned into something really special.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.