- Courtesy of The Nate Berkus Show
- TV home expert Nate Berkus surprises pharmacy tech Sarah Paiva-hoke with a makeover.
For the last seven years, Sarah Paiva-hoke and her husband have been apartment hopping, unable to afford to buy a house. In April, they were finally able to get rid of landlords and bought a house of their own.
Because of their super-busy schedules, most of the house has sat undecorated, especially in the heart of all homes, the dining room.
When you get so distraught that you can't fit in an eight-hour marathon of The Real Housewives of Atlanta into your schedule, think of people like Sarah. Her schedule is exhausting just thinking about it.
Sarah wakes up at 6:30 a.m., gets her two small children, James, 6, and Ava, 3, ready for school and babysitting. She then goes off to her up to 13-hour-a day job as a pharmacy technician at Publix. Her husband, Sean, also works; first a 9 to 5er and then a second job on nights and weekends.
This is where super-star interior decorator/Oprah prodigy/all-around dreamboat Nate Berkus came in. Sarah has been following Nate since Oprah discovered him in the late '90s and fits in his current show, The Nate Berkus Show, every morning.
Sarah wrote into the show herself regarding her home decorating dilemma.
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2011.