The second season of “The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project” finds married design duo Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent back on the East Coast, delivering homes “that feel exactly like the people who live in them,” says Brent.
“We help figure out what matters,” says Berkus. “Because filling a home with things that have meaning is the most important part.”
In the season premiere, “Home Is Where the Art Is,” they head to East Rockaway on Long Island to meet Lisa and Mike and their four kids.
“That’s a lot of kids in one little Cape Cod house,” says Berkus, stating the obvious.
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They don’t have room to build onto the house, but Berkus and Brent see potential in reorganizing and redesigning the existing space—all on a budget of $180,000.
As they share their expertise, you might be inspired to put some of it to good use in your own home. Check out what Berkus and Brent taught us this week.
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Many people are intimidated by working with designers and are afraid to assert their own wants, needs, and tastes. Then, when the project is finished, the clients are stuck with something that feels like someone else’s home. That would never happen with Berkus and Brent.
“One of the most important parts of our process as designers is to actually walk clients through their belongings as we tour their homes,” says Brent. “It helps them decide what’s really important to them, which gives us more insight into who they are as people. And unless we know who they are as people, we can’t do a good job designing for them.”
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With Lisa and Mike, they find that the children’s artwork, a bookcase Lisa’s father made in high school, a curio cabinet passed down from a grandmother, and a couple of horseshoes, among other things, are…