I really love decorating. While it would be fun to meet Nate and get his opinions, I love the way my home is decorated and would not want it redone. I also live in a hot climate and love having ceiling fans. I really can't get to sleep in a room without one. I have noticed that he always gets rid of the ceiling fans. I have 2 lovely, expensive, rust tone designer fans in my living room and I would be quite upset if he got rid of them. I guess I should also mention that my home is only 7 years old and most of the furniture is new so maybe the timing just isn't right for me now.

If Nate showed up on my doorstep I would probably faint .... We need so much done to our house it isn't funny. I have lost the joy in our home because so much needs to be done. My husband and I have been married for 41 years and he and our 3 daughters built this house 25 years ago. Now our 3 daughters have homes of their own and we now have 9 grandchildren and our house is still not finished, we still do not have closet doors. My husband says he hasn't figured out how he wants to do them yet! It would be wonderful if Nate could give us some ideas. Our house is so small and there is not enough storage and when everyone comes it is so crowded. It would be so wonderful if I could enjoy my home before they have to put me in another kind of home......

Can anybody tell me what kind of countertop was used in Nates kitchen makeover today (10-10-07). I can't find it on line and would love to see it in real life.
Thanks!
Becky

Yea ain't it great seeing rich people getting more stuff!

Nate I have been watching you on Oprah show many times and my eyes just popped out to the way you imagation how a room would look. I like your style anything you do is extremely awsome in the home improvement and decorating area. I 'am in a trap alright trying to get my house remodeled and having time to do this. This has been almost a 21/2 years now . I work 84 to 90 hours a week as a homehealth caregiver. I work every other week away from home, My husband of 43 years works at a fleamarket buying and selling antiques. Which is health is not good. He use to be a builder and attempted this project of remodeling our home he knocked out a wall in the kitchen and add a room to extented it for an eating area , the kitchen needs cabinets and counter tops he has attempted to do many things all at once and still is wondering around the house doing things . HE NEEDS HELP. !!! the poor man I love him dearly. My decorating skills are some what ok but i can never make a decision what goes with what. Family Room has been painted my son helped us we couldnt have done this with out his help. The tile is new in the family room took them a month to lay this. My husband had kideny stones every so often, plus his hands shakes. and is a diabetic, I am a diabetic too. so when i get home i really hate being there. its a mess the rooms are full of things we dont need i am at the point i need help. Can you be our shining hope to my minds eyes and clean up this mess of ours. God bless you for ability to look at what needs to be done. The Murphy family . P.S my hubby doesnt know i writing this . I can send you pictures too > harpobear wrote:What if the next time your doorbell rang...designer Nate Berkus was there? Nate's making house calls, and not a minute too soon! If you and your family are trapped in a decorating time warp, Nate's going in...to help get you out!

I too thought the counter top was great......where would one find this.....I hope it would be affordable for the rest of "us"......I was just talking today about getting new countertop...and since I just got a SS refrigerator & stove this would work.....


zollabudd
Maplewood, NJ

You are so right about the people who Nate help. They do seem more than capable of doing there own remodels. The couple Tanya and Keith were on an episode of reDesign on HGTV last year. Kenneth Brown renovated their kitchen. The episode was HRDN-310 (Modern Meets Traditional Kitchen). I was shocked when I saw them on TV for someone to remodel a kitchen again! I thought that the Oprah people did their homework. Surely, there was someone more deserving of a home improvement kitchen makeover than Tanya and Keith. They know what to do. Kenneth did a wonderful job on that kitchen with a lot input and help from Tanya and Keith. Click on the link if you want to see it.

if its true what you said about tanya and keith, it seems to me that they had there kitchen made over from kenneth brown and then sold their home. now their new home needed a kitchen makeover, both homes that were show today were million plus homes. when i was watching oprah i could not believe that these people could not figure out how to order updated appliances. also, does anyone know who pays for this? does the homeowner have a budget and nate offers his services for free? i would love to know the answer for this. i love kenneth brown's design why did they not call him again.

Wow what a transformation!! Nate really did incredible job. I would be so so excitied if nate shows up front of my house. It would be dream come true. I don't know when I will be next but, someday I really hoping nate to come to my house and help on our backyard remodel. I really need help!!!! Hope to hear from you.. thank you~~

If Nate showed up on my front door...I am pretty sure I would scream, hug him, kiss him, and show him in. I don't believe I deserve to have Nate help me. I mean...my house is fine. Would I love, love, love (as Gayle would say) to have him decorate my home? Yes. MOST DEFINITELY. But, there are others who are more in need of his services. Truly, I would just love to go shopping with him...drink coffee with him...and set him up with my brother! I have been telling my little brother for a couple of years now..."You must meet Nate! I am sure you are soulmates!" I am pretty sure Nate would find ME utterly crazy, but my cutie patootie little brother...FANTASTIC.

Wouldn't that be cool? If Nate showed up on my door step, first I'd give him a big hug (how could you not?--he is so it) and offer him a cup of tea. Then I'd probably die of embarrassment! Or burst into tears or some other weird thing. I feel like I'm drowning in stuff and clutter. There is not a counter top or surface in my entire house that is not empty. Its exhausting. I work at home (full time) and have an 36 yr. old autistic son who lives with me. He is an absolute joy, but with work, housework, shopping, cooking, yard work, it's just overwhelming sometimes. This is just not how I want to be. This is not how I use to be. I let everything slide, which makes it worse, what a cycle! I did not use to live like this. I was clean, effecient, on track and very together (maybe even a bit compulsive about it). Now its completely the other way. It would be great to have things in order (and to be able to open a closet door and not have stuff fall out). Clean, open together. I moved Steven, my son from his basement room to an upstairs room because I didnt think the basement was a healthy place for him to be (mold and dust). Now some of his stuff is downstairs, some of it is upstairs. Some of the stuff that was in the spare room is in a differnt room, some in the basement. It is so tiring to live like this. I need a wife, a decorator, a dump truck, and a backhoe. Maybe not in that order.

just want to understand nates makeovers on todays show: 1. who pays for all of this? 2. why was it neccessary to put a 36 inch plasma tv in their bedroom? same goes for the kitchen makeover, tv in the kitchen. i thought oprah did not like televisions in the bedroom. if the homeowners actually paid for this i can understand. someone please explain to me if i am wrong.

I think he uses Benjemin Moore paint. I just got one of his decorating books and it has several shades of whites and creams to pick from. Go to a books store and peak at this books. I am trying to figure out where to find on Opera's page..... where Nate purchased the items. Does anyone know where to LOOK??

To Wendyches... Why does it bother you that he put a large tv in the room and why do you care who paid for it? I am not trying to be ugly. I am just curious. I know it is ultra extravengant and way more than I could ever do...but isn't that what makes the makeover soooo exciting? I would have been disappointed if it hadn't been over-the-top wonderful.

If Nate showed up at my house I am sure that he would throw up his hands in despair! Whether it be my kitchen or either of the bathrooms, they are all equally TERRIBLE. By terrible I mean really small, no room, and wierd colors. The front bathroom has salmon pink tile with a dark blue stripe through it. The house was built in 1957 and was a custom build back then. But my REAL problem is my kitchen. It is a galley kitchen that is about 9 feet long and about 4 feet across from the front of the refrigerator to the cabinets on the other side. The drawers get stuck, they don't even make the little gadgets they slide on anymore, believe me I've tried to find them! The oven is so small you can't use a regular size cookie sheet. There is some room at the end of the kitchen where there could be something else but it is wide open. That is where the table is now. It just really hasn't ever worked, but I don't know what to do with it either. We started remodeling in the 80's and then I got sick and the remodeling got put on hold and since I haven't been able to work since then, it has been a permanent hold. My husband, who is a school teacher, is looking forward to retiring in a few years and we would really like to have the kitchen done--but where to start--what to do--especially with a VERY limited budget. I wish I could send pictures--then you would really see my dilemma. HELP NATE!!!
JoAnn