Nate Berkus Quotes

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

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  Love, Home, Together

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• 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.

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  Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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• 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.

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  Discovery, Challenges, Trying

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• 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.

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  Home, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, www.oprah.com. February 8, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Meaningful

  Nate Berkus (2012). “The Things That Matter”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are.

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  Home, Stories, Should

  "Sitting Down With Nate Berkus". Interview with Marni Golden, hamptons-magazine.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

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  Home, Eye, Land

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• In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

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  Important, Interiors

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• 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.

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  School, Kids, Design

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

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  Memories, Thinking, House

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• I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

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  Home, Connections, Want

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• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

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  Home, Should Have, People

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• 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.

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  Believe, Home, Squares

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• I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

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  Home, Color, Emotion

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• 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.

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  Home, Space, Important

  "See How Designer Nate Berkus Renovated His 19th-Century New York City Duplex" by Samuel Cochran, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 2012.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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

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  Needs, Stuff, Architecture

  "The Fashionable Life". www.harpersbazaar.com. Jul 15, 2013.

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• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

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  Lying, Mean, Important

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, uk.askmen.com.

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• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

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  Real, Design, Needs

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• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

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  Thinking, Space, Furniture

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• I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

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  Hate, Thinking, Dining

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• 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.

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  Home, Unique, Special You

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• 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.

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  Wall, Home, Black

  "Should A Grown Man Really Have A "Man Cave"?". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

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  Home, Vintage, Editors

  "Ten Questions: Nate Berkus" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 16, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Character, Imperfection, Feelings

  "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, February 8, 2011.

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