Nate Berkus Quotes

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

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.

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.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

My house in my real life is a no-purple zone.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.

What you put on your wall should be inspiration.

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

Interior design wasn't something I rushed into.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

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.

I think that's the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

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'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.

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

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

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

It's so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.