Nate Berkus Quotes

Decorating has always been my hobby.

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

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

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

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.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

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!

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

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

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

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

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.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It's so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you've really accomplished something.

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

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.

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting - things you can do yourself - that alone can transform the space.

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?