Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room. "
Nate Berkus
I Can
You
Tell
Related Quotes:
" I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot. "
Nate Berkus
Fashion
Good
Buy
" Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school. "
Nate Berkus
Design
Marriage
Good
" Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall. "
Nate Berkus
Your
Way
Warm
" I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time. "
Nate Berkus
Time
Mother
Living
" It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge. "
Nate Berkus
Knowledge
Know
Job
" You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things. "
Nate Berkus
Challenge
Yourself
Life
" If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space. "
Nate Berkus
Think
Space
Small
" In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect. "
Nate Berkus
Modern
You
Space
" I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning. "
Nate Berkus
Care
Believe
Story
" I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8. "
Nate Berkus
Time
Who
Furniture
" I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be. "
Nate Berkus
My Own
Brother
Boy
" Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now? "
Nate Berkus
Now
Real
Yourself
" I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive. "
Nate Berkus
Say
You
Worth
" I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s. "
Nate Berkus
Love
Father
Day
" Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration. "
Nate Berkus
Home
Going
Design
" I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal. "
Nate Berkus
Pay
Waste
Square
" You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. "
Nate Berkus
You
Need
Money
" You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force. "
Nate Berkus
Free
Influence
Truth
" First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love. "
Nate Berkus
Design
Love
Product
" My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle. "
Nate Berkus
Want
Decorating
Kind
" When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit. "
Nate Berkus
See
Different
I See
" I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on. "
Nate Berkus
Confidence
Brother
Great
" I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign. "
Nate Berkus
Small
Path
Passion
" We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair. "
Nate Berkus
See
Chair
Want
" They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.' "
Nate Berkus
I Can
You
White
" Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls. "
Nate Berkus
Happy
You
Live
" I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad. "
Nate Berkus
Am
Making
I Am
" 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market. "
Nate Berkus
Dealer
You
Worry
" I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago. "
Nate Berkus
Chicago
Vintage
Heart
" I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy. "
Nate Berkus
Happy
Be Happy
Care