{"id":1390,"date":"2015-09-11T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/en\/inspirations\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:18:58","slug":"inspirational-interior-designs-by-nate-berkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/2015\/09\/11\/inspirational-interior-designs-by-nate-berkus\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Interior designs by Nate Berkus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interior designs by Nate Berkus<\/strong><\/em> is an American interior designer, author, TV host 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<\/strong>, offering design advice to viewers, as well as coordinating surprise make-overs for people\u2019s homes. He has released numerous lines of products, and authored several books.
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\nInterior designs by Nate Berkus |\u00a0<\/em>Biography<\/strong>
\nNathan Jay \u201cNate\u201d Berkus was born September 17, 1971 in Orange County, California and grew up mainly in suburban Minneapolis. He is Jewish, and openly gay. He attended Cushing Academy, a boarding school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He started working in design immediately after leaving high school and interned at Dominique Aurientis in Paris and Sotheby\u2019s in Chicago. Berkus graduated from Lake Forest College near Chicago in 1994 with degrees in French and Sociology. Berkus founded the company, Nate Berkus Associates<\/strong>, in Chicago in 1995.
\nIn November 2005 Hyperion Books published Berkus\u2019s book Home Rules: Transform the Place You Live into a Place You\u2019ll Love, a step-by-step guide to home design and decoration<\/em>. In 2005 Berkus began selling his merchandise at Linens \u2018n Things stores throughout North America.
\nBerkus was the host of the short-lived reality show Oprah\u2019s Big Give, which premiered March 2, 2008, but the series ended on April 20 that same year. On May 13, 2008, it was announced by ABC that it would not be renewed for a second season.
\nOn September 13, 2010, he debuted as the host of his own syndicated daily show, The Nate Berkus Show<\/em><\/strong>, which was co-produced by Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television. It was recorded at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, but aired in the nation\u2019s largest markets on the ten NBC-owned-and-operated stations. In December 2011, Sony Pictures decided not to renew The Nate Berkus Show for a third season. It featured make-overs, culture, design, and personal advice. Its was cancelled after its second season ended on May 24, 2012.
\nNate Berkus is also an executive producer of the 2011 film The Help<\/em>. He appeared as himself on the October 12, 2011 and October 13, 2011 episodes of Days of Our Lives<\/em>, a United States daytime television soap opera, designing the offices of MadWorld Cosmetics for Madison James.
\nDecorating Tips from Nate Berkus<\/strong>
\nWhether it concerns television stardom or his cult home collections, Nate Berkus has been on a mission to make high design accessible to the masses, and it\u2019s one idea we can get behind. His mantra, \u201cLive beautifully,\u201d emphasizes the little things people can do to feel better in their homes \u2014 most of which cost next to nothing to achieve. See below a couple of simple decorating tips from one of the best interior designers in California.
\nSee also:\u00a0INSPIRATIONAL INTERIOR DESIGNS BY STAFFAN TOLLGARD<\/a><\/strong>
\nMake the Most of Grocery Store Bouquets<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate likes to take inexpensive grocery store bouquets and split them into smaller arrangements, so he can enjoy them around the house. \u201cRegardless of how much money we have or don\u2019t have or where we live, everybody wants to live better. These kind of little moments make that easier,\u201d said Nate.
\nAdd Drama With Paint<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate admitted he isn\u2019t the biggest fan of accent walls \u2014 especially in new construction rooms without a lot of architectural details \u2014 but thought there are ways to work around that. \u201cPainting a wall or a room black can be really effective: the walls start to recede, and it feels really sexy and very elegant,\u201d he said. He recommends experimenting with niches, e.g. using shelves.
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\nTurn an Eyesore Into an Opportunity<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate believes you can tell a lot by the kind of container someone keeps their toothbrush in. \u201cI use an old, beautiful cut-glass tumbler that I bought for like $5 at a flea market. I like the idea of using something beautiful in the everyday, kind of mundane way,\u201d said Nate. His other go-to tip? Ditch the egg carton, and place eggs in a beautiful bowl in the fridge.
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\nInterior designs by Nate Berkus | Drape Fabric Over Your Headboard<\/em><\/strong>
\nYou should never splurge on a headboard, Nate insisted. \u201cThey\u2019re online \u2014 you can find them everywhere. I tend to personalize headboards by draping a textile over the back of it. That way, it\u2019s very easy to change out,\u201d he said.
\nAvoid Small Space Clich\u00e9s<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate reasoned that it\u2019s more important to have comfortable, quality pieces that you really love. One of the biggest small-space culprits? The studio-size sofa. \u201cIf you don\u2019t put four chairs in the room or two huge chairs, you can get a proper 84-inch-size sofa in the space, and you\u2019re going to have more comfortable seating than if you had lots of small pieces that were \u2018designed\u2019 to fit in the apartment or small space. I would rather have graciousness than quantity,\u201d said Nate. His advice? Take measurements.
\nTake Risks<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate believes that people are happiest with their space when they take risks and are honest with themselves about what they really love. He said he likes when people decide, \u201cI\u2019m going to use this room in this way. Even though it\u2019s a formal dining room, I\u2019m going to put two sofas facing each other in it, and I want to hang out in here in a different way than the home builder intended or how my neighbor next door has it set up.\u201d
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\nInvest in Handmade and Vintage Pieces<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cIf something is made by hand or vintage or unique, chances are, it\u2019s going to feel like your home has been assembled over time,\u201d Nate said. His Kryptonite? Nineteenth-century gold-framed mirrors, baskets, and Peruvian textiles.
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\nInterior designs by Nate Berkus | Adopt a Daily Cleaning Routine<\/em><\/strong>
\nNate attributes his neatness to being a Virgo, but thinks adopting daily tidying rituals like making the bed every morning help to cultivate a sense of pride at home. \u201cIt literally always looks like somebody could come in with their lighting and take photographs of my home that afternoon. I don\u2019t understand how to live any other way. That may change because there\u2019s a baby on the way \u2014 then I\u2019ll probably be stepping on Legos and saying, \u2018Remember when I made my bed every day?\u2019 But we\u2019ll see,\u201d he said.
\nLayer Your Home With Clean Scents<\/em><\/strong>
\nAs a strong believer in the psychology of scent, Nate loves to layer his home with fragrances that put him at ease. \u201cI gravitate toward lavenders, vanillas, anything that indicates that the home just got out of a bath. I like everything to feel sort of beachy and light and very fresh,\u201d said Nate.
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\nSource: Best Interior Designers<\/a><\/strong>
\nSee also:\u00a0INSPIRATIONAL INTERIOR DESIGNS BY STAFFAN TOLLGARD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interior designs by Nate Berkus is an American interior designer, author, TV host 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\u2019s homes. He has released numerous lines of products, and authored several books. Interior designs by Nate Berkus |\u00a0Biography Nathan Jay \u201cNate\u201d Berkus was born September 17, 1971 in Orange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[892,321,785,918,919,917,916,915],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}