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I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up! Nate Berkus

You Hate Think Sets Dining Dining Room Hated Always Up Break Room Set

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

Will Too Studied Different Patterns Appearing Keep Things

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

Love Colors Soothing House Any Room

'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market. Nate Berkus

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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered. Nate Berkus

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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

You Yourself Before Real Begin Get Want Anything Room Ask Really Use Now Designing Buying Need

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

You Architecture Money Amazing Spend Stuff Lot Need

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.' Nate Berkus

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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. Nate Berkus

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you. Nate Berkus

Home You Resonates Everywhere Eye Something Land Should Your Travels

I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong. Nate Berkus

Home You Tremendous Tremendous Amount Respond Tell Something Color Emotion No-One Wrong Felt Always Personal Your Amount Incorporate

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. Nate Berkus

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

Living Had Glass New Always York New York Fantasy

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. Nate Berkus

Good Me Marriage School Design Kids Magic Someone Part Know How Doing Going Psychology Should Decorator Sociology

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

Business Bad Feel Making Am Anyone Ever

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

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. Nicholas Haslam

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