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

From Nate Berkus

'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.

From Nate Berkus

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

From Nate Berkus

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.

From Nate Berkus

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?

From Nate Berkus

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.

From Nate Berkus

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

From Nate Berkus

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.'

From Nate Berkus

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

From Nate Berkus

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.

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