Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent have just returned for Season 2 of their HGTV show, “The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project”—and although they’re total pros at making over their clients’ homes, that doesn’t make curating their own spaces as easy as you might think.
“I’m still not over it,” Berkus revealed to us about furniture the couple sold during their most recent move. “If you go on Realtor.com, you can see the old listing photos. It was great stuff!”
And it turns out, this urge to hang onto things runs in the family, as these married dads admit that their daughter is their “most lovable little hoarder” ever.
Eager to hear more, we had a heart-to-heart with these designers to learn what they love about their new home, as well as their own personal challenges decluttering and making it perfect. All in all, it will convince you that even designers’ homes aren’t always as pristine as reality shows might have you believe.
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When working with clients, how do you determine what counts as a keepsake and what’s just junk?
Nate Berkus: By having the homeowners walk us through their stuff, it allows us to get to know them. To edit it, we bring them back into the space once it’s been renovated, and then they have to decide whether or not it’s something they really want to keep. Oftentimes, they don’t.
Jeremiah Brent: Life changes and there’s an evolution to not only who we are as people, but our stories of family, and your home doesn’t often represent that evolution. We’re in the business of telling people’s story through their things and really getting to understand what brings them joy, what brings them happiness, [and] what they need to move on from, because you wake up one day, and you’ve been living in the house the same way for 10 years and it doesn’t reflect who you are anymore.
That’s the fun part for us, getting…