Nate Berkus

My mom was in town a few weeks ago and I took a day off to spend time with her.  While we were getting ready, we had the television tuned to the Today Show.  I watch the Today Show every morning as I get ready for work, but because I have to be at the office at 8:30, I rarely see anything beyond the first hour.  Well, if you watch the entire program, including the final hour with Hoda and Kathy Lee, the latter of which I think really might be crazy, you get to see Nate Berkus's new show.

I'll be honest, I kind of love Nate.  He's super cute (sorry ladies, he's gay), dates a shoe designer (Brian Atwood) and is BFFs with Oprah.  Plus, he has awesome taste when it comes to design.  I've seen clips of him on the Oprah show before.  He's great on television.  He even has a few good things in his line for the Home Shopping Network.

What I really love though is the work he does for his high end interior design clients.  It has a masculine, but refined look to it and it's eclectic, so it feels like it was collected over time.  A few years ago, the Oprah show did a piece on Nate's apartment in the Greenwich Village area of New York City--he also owns a home in his native Chicago.  In typical New York apartment fashion, it's small.  But, I love how he got creative--putting a television in a closet--to make it appear larger than it actually is.  Here are a few pictures: