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Interior designer

Nate Berkus is a renowned interior designer, born on September 17, 1971. He is known for his unique aesthetic and creative designs, serving as a design consultant for many well-known magazines and television shows. Berkus' design style blends modern and traditional elements, which are highly appreciated by the public.

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Famous Nate Berkus Quotes

“Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.”

Ifs Want White Share Pages Who You Are Strikes Designer Hats Urges Backdrop Watercolors

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“When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.”

Different Bits Objects Wall Experiments Hung Framed Fluidity

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“Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.”

People Way Want Giving Bigs Opportunity Felt Understanding Chance Share Messages Best Things Compelled

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“You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.”

Heart Mean Force Influence Advice Free Advice

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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.”

Parent Forget Wise Style Design Gender Designer Infant Nursery

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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.”

Fashion Design Intention Firm Classic Timeless

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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.”

Wells Character Feelings Used Stuff Percent Deserve Imperfection Untouchables

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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.”

Persons Important Beautiful Passing Passings Touching Something Beautiful Passing By

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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.”

People Way Matter Philosophy Stories Home Beautiful Design Lays Things That Matter Beautiful Design

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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.”

Love Life Made Matter Truth Hope Next Memories Truth Is Meaningful Who We Are Good Times Materialism Rough Reminders Patches Representing Reminding Rough Patches

Book:The Things That Matter

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“Your home should tell the story of who you are.”

Should Stories Home Who You Are

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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.”

Love Should Stories Home Together Who You Are Collections Roof Collecting What You Love Cozy Home Sweet Home Homemaking

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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.”

Ifs Trying Challenges Wonder Approach Discovery New Things Sense Of Wonder Challenge Yourself

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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.”

Feels Important Feelings Home Our Lives Easier Feel Good Welcome Gracious

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“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.”

Mean Beautiful Clear Glasses Fake Parks Vases

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“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.”

Feels Couple Inspired Classic Thick Pillow Cozy Sofas

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

Needs Stuff Architecture Lots Of Money

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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.”

Way Home Might Together Found House Rooms Special Majors Unique Stores Plenty Copies Carbon Fleas Sofas Your Room Decorating Flea Markets Special You

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“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.”

Firsts Has Beens Night Father Ties Preppy

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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.'”

I Can Shows Used Bits White Answers Materials Classic Kitchen Steel Vary Tease Subway Appliances Tiles Shakers Tease Me

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

Important Interiors

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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.”

Ifs Feels Important Home Space Important Things My Space

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“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.”

I Can Light Certain Term Can Do My Own Construction Fixture

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“Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.”

Way Fall Warm Orange Mixing Updates

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

Space Perfect Pieces Modern Furniture

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

Made Kids Parent Crazy Months Bedroom Allowance

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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.”

Knows Should Kids School Psychology Magic Design Sociology Decorators

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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.”

Should Believe Stories Home Care I Believe Who You Are Don't Believe I Believe In Trends Surround Aspire Collecting Collecting Things

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“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.”

Stuff Shirts Ties Boots Jeans T Shirt Jackets Leather Jacob Hermes Leather Jackets Old Stuff

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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.”

Believe Home Used Space Pay Waste Don't Believe Criminals Squares

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

Heart Book Home Inspiration Hours Design Design Inspiration

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“I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.”

Firsts School Mother Rooms First Time Grades Furniture Living Room Grades In School

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

Thinking Littles House Memories Little Things Great Memories

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About the Author

Born: September 17, 1971
Known for: Interior designer
Quotes: 83

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