Nate Berkus Quotes

When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction, I always tell them to start off with paint. A fresh coat can really change the whole look of a home.

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.

Decorating has always been my hobby.

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

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

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

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.'

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

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

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.

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

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

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

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.

Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know their aesthetic; they don't know where they want to go.

What you put on your wall should be inspiration.

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.

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.

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

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.