Nate Berkus Quotes

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!

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

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.

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.

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!

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

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.

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 like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

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.

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

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

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

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

I also love real estate and decorating.