Nate Berkus Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Space, Perfect, Pieces

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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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• 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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• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

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  Energy, Pieces, Chairs

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• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

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  Simple, Design, Style

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• 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.'

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  White, Kitchen, Steel

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• In every interior my firm and I design, we are always reaching for vintage pieces, and materials that feel classic and timeless. It's how I feel about fashion as well, and definitely one of the intentions I had when designing the layette collection. I'm not a fan of trends.

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  Fashion, Design, Classic

  Source: people.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Passing By, Touching

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

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• I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

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  New York, Glasses, Fantasy

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• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

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  Humanity, Lessons, Want

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• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

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  Burgers, Carbs, Honestly

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• I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.

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  Brother, Giving, Important

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• In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

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  Simple, Space, Looks

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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’

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  Mom, Baseball, Mother

  "Nate Berkus Talks Being Gay, Coming Out And Loss Of Longtime Partner With Joy Behar". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

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  Different, Patterns, Appearing

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• 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.

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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

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  Thinking, Guy, Months

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• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

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  Nice, Mean, Found Objects

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• As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as a new parent with an infant that if it’s not deeply practical as well, then forget about it. Style wise, I wanted to design items that would work well in any nursery - regardless of gender.

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  Wise, Design, Parent

  "Nate Berkus Jokes Daughter Poppy Knows What She Wants When It Comes to Fashion: 'She's Incredibly Opinionated'". Interview with Anya Leon, people.com. January 6, 2017.

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• I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.

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  Feels

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• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

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  Believe, Gay, Matter

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• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

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  Baseball, Mother, Years

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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

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  Growing Up, Motivation, Passion

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