Nate Berkus Quotes

There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.

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.

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

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

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

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

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

I didn't even know I needed throw pillows. That was always Brad's thing.

Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will visually change the room.

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've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes with my mother and I used to imagine how I could make the space better and how people would live in it.

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.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

A lot of people will center their living room around a TV. I personally think that's the wrong decision. I mean, have it there, absolutely. But to walk in and clearly see that the sole focus of any time you have in your house is that TV?

I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready to start tearing apart the soft furnishings in my house.

I worked at Bergdorf Goodman doing interior decoration.

To me, when you decorate your home with just one store, it looks like that - it looks like a catalog.

My passion is to create and transform a small or a large space.

I can't make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I'm not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.

I like interiors as much as exteriors but 'interior designer' just sounds naff as a job.

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

I love art and finding different bits and bobs for the apartment; so, I'm adding all my personal touches to the house.