Bobby Berk Quotes

I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.

You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

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 wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

Finding a way to really reinterpret your home as an expression of how you live, is really good design in my opinion.

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

I never considered interior design as a career option. I had designed a couple of our homes, and people liked my work. Friends came forward and asked me to help them do up their homes, and that's how it started.

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.

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've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

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!

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that.

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

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

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.

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

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

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.