Feel Quotes

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Love Any I Love

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Business Am I Am

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Think I Think Every

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Your Way Some

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Space You Just

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Great Me Think

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Space You Want

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

Nate Berkus

Tags: Truth Way Being

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Time About Think

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Space You Think

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Home Me Always

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Nature Like About

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Space You Your

Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

Nate Berkus

Tags: You Get Really

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Home Me About

Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Going Some See

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Me Just How

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Business Truth You

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.

Nate Berkus

Tags: Time Best Money

I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

Nate Berkus

Tags: You Just Way