123 Quotes by Nate Berkus

I didn’t necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I’m not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

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

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.

Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don’t recommend accent walls – choose a color you can live with on all four walls.

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

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that’s old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that’s obviously modern with it. You can’t put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

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.

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 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.