BHG Country Home

Advantages: Good Price, Products for everyone and every budget
Disadvantages: Needs to be a bit bigger in page numbers

...As a seller of Modern Living Items and Art, Living Etc is a great magazine for those of us who enjoy making our homes look good, great for those of us who like looking at other peoples homes and those of us who are designers. Living Etc encouraged me to take the dive into the interior design world because of how interesting they make their articles. They take normal people from all over the country,, and do articles on their homes and how they have been designed. They give you floor plans so you can see if your home is laid out the same or similar so that you can see if you can take on some of their ideas. They also do a page at the end of each home article, giving you items you can buy similar to those in the homes. These articles are always affordable for the standard familys which makes this magazine more suitable for the average... Read review

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Advantages: Dream a little dream or two...
Disadvantages: It isn't really country living is it?

...increasing financial pressures and isolation. Country Living is purely a lifestyle magazine, and like most magazines of this kind it bases its premise of gracious country living on a gossamer web of middle-class fantasy that is all to easy to buy into. If that lifestyle appeals to you and you have the vast funds to accommodate your fantasies of rural bliss, there is a property section which includes Readers’ Homes (although more tastefully photographed than the Readers’ Wives you might find in other publications based on fantasy). The Bargain of the Month is only £315,000, and even offers that Holy Grail of the modern middle classes, the potential barn conversion. An article entitled “A Magnificent Obsession” by Debbie Childs chronicles the painstaking restoration of an Elizabethan estate over the course of 40 years... Read review

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Advantages: Original and classic design for interiors
Disadvantages: too expensive for some

...into when purchasing the World of Interiors. Given the cost of some of the items featured, though, it has to be said that it is 'aspirational' too! A section in the magazine picks out products which can help the reader to achieve some of the looks featured. Other sections are educational, with features on the work of important artists and designers. A comprehensive guide to exhibitions details what can be seen all over the country in museums and galleries. As well as the homes of the rich, also featured are the homes of artists and designers. Here are the homes, quirky and eclectic, that used to grace the pages of Ideal Home before it was 'modernised'. Hand-made lampshades sit side-by-side with original artwork and crafts. Woven bedspreads drape over chaise-longues and a dog lies under the kitchen table. Personally, I enjoy these homes... Read review

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