Nate Berkus Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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  Home, Eye, Land

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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  Moving, Home, Thinking

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online.

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  Kings, Home, Shopping

  "Nate Berkus on Selling His Old Prada, Hermès, and More". Interview with Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. May 16, 2013.

• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

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  Home, Design, Fleas

• 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.

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

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  Home, Guy, Comfort

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

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  Book, Inspiration, Home

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