Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus
Nathan Jay "Nate" Berkus is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and has been a regularly featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, offering design advice to viewers as well as coordinating surprise make-overs for people's homes. He has released numerous lines of products and authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth17 September 1971
CityOrange County, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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.
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.
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.
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.
I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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.