Nate Berkus famous quotes

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
-- Nate Berkus

#Discovery #Challenges #Trying

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.
-- Nate Berkus

#Home #Together #Stories

Your home should tell the story of who you are.
-- Nate Berkus

#Home #Stories #Should

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
-- Nate Berkus

#Important

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.
-- Nate Berkus

#Character #Imperfection #Feelings

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.
-- Nate Berkus

#Believe #Home #Stories

The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus’s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved along the way—and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.
-- Nate Berkus

#Beautiful #Philosophy #Home

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
-- Nate Berkus

#Space #Perfect #Furniture

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.
-- Nate Berkus

#Who We Are #Matter #Next

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
-- Nate Berkus

#Home #Space #Important

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
-- Nate Berkus

#Memories #Thinking #House

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
-- Nate Berkus

#Father #Night #Ties

Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
-- Nate Berkus

#Beautiful #Mean #Glasses

Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
-- Nate Berkus

#Fall #Orange #Way

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.
-- Nate Berkus

#Home #Unique #House

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

#Mother #School #Rooms

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

#Book #Inspiration #Home

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
-- Nate Berkus

#Believe #Home #Squares

I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
-- Nate Berkus

#Jeans #Ties #Boots

I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
-- Nate Berkus

#Crazy #Kids #Parent

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
-- Nate Berkus

#Light #Construction #Certain

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
-- Nate Berkus

#Couple #Cozy #Classic

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
-- Nate Berkus

#Needs #Stuff #Architecture

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
-- Nate Berkus

#White #Kitchen #Steel

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
-- Nate Berkus

#School #Kids #Design

There’s something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him — that brings me some peace.
-- Nate Berkus

#Beautiful #Touching #Important

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.
-- Nate Berkus

#Home #Feel Good #Feelings