Homes & Ideas

Advantages: Lots of excellent,achievable ideas
Disadvantages: None

...which can show you wonderful homes there are few that seem to have their feet placed on the firm wood flooring they all seem to recommend. All too often the rooms have been transformed not so much by good ideas as by good money. Frankly if we all had that much money all our houses would look that good. Well, probably no. There are other ingredients needed to improve your home. Time is one obviously but there is little that can be done about the ...
...that matter for you. Homes & Ideas is better than the others because it shows simple achievable little jobs which can improve the look and functionality of your home. It also ensures the tasks can be done without a woodworking or sewing GCSE and without the need for a budget of 100s of £s. There are real homes shown with the emphasis on real and on home. I know they will have been tidied up and presented at their best but they do look like someone ... Read review

Advantages: making something to change the looks in your house
Disadvantages: none

...a total revamp”. Homes & Ideas is one of the magazines that help you to transform the old to the modern or vice- versa, adding more style to your home. I bought the latest Home & Ideas (March 2001) for £1 pound, but normally the usual price is £2 pounds and for the level of the information that you can have, the price is nearly nothing. Reading the magazine is very pleasant and when they suggest something that needs your DIY expertise, all ...
...etc…) Design ideas (style) Real-life homes (some interviews with home owners that changed the way their house look showing before and after) Essential guides (how to choose and paint properly) Food (recipes) Gardening (hints) Prizes and offers (competitions and price of a selected item) Regulars (phone numbers and websites) Hope you enjoy it, Homes and Ideas is available monthly, but you can also subscribe saving 15%. 2 years (22 issues) ... Read review

Advantages: Ideas to fit a realistic budget
Disadvantages: only out monthly

I am buying my first house shortly... and so as such my nesting instinct kicked in and I began researching and of all the magazines out there I found home ideas by far the best for the young person of today looking to furnish or re-decorate. Lets face it we aren't all on £30 or £40 thousand a year... and most house magazines seem to be apealing to this bracket. This magazine does stand out from others on the market. For a start it is cheaper, on ...
...(I pick mine up from the corner shop) this magazine consists of many ideas to fit anybodys budget. In any magazine there are usually articles and ideas for every room Kitchen, Living room, Bedroom, and Outdoors. It has articles on every room and the best thing is that every product or design idea has the price and usually a website attached so that you can be sure to obtain the product yourself. Property Ideas This has a property guide (with houses ... Read review

Advantages: Glossy, top quality content
Disadvantages: None

...often find sumptuous or staid homes featured. Everything is light and bright. The cover states "265 beautiful budget ideas for Summer living" this time. The emphasis is on ideas, hence Homes and Ideas What is great about this magazine, is that they give you loads of ideas for your own house. Many of the pages are short features of makeovers, cookery, new products etc. All illustrated with numerous photographs. I think this is what makes this magazine ...
...photos (ideas) on for you. The visuals seem more important than the text. Which works! It makes the magazine very 'light' - an enjoyable read. You usually get a free booklet in the centre pages - the one I am looking at now has a 70 Garden Ideas booklet whoich is tops for me - I'm just about to move house and need ideas for a neglected and overgrown garden. I would definitely recomend this title. It's greeeeaaaat! ... Read review

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This magazine is full of superb ideas for around your home that you can purchase or recreate yourself. It covers just about everything you want to know about home decorating and designing. There are pages of readers makeovers showing you the before and after products. It shows you how to plan your own room to perfection. After buying a copy in December last year, I decided to take my home decor into my own hands, and have so far successfully redecorated ... Read review

Advantages: good articles & realistic prices
Disadvantages: some ideas are naff

...I’ve bought this magazine regularly for some time. It is a more practical home decorating magazine and is also more relevant to most people’s lives and budgets than some. There is a mix of short articles and longer features. Each month they feature some readers’ homes showing their decorating ideas. At the end of the article they show where you can buy and make similar items. Particular trends and rooms are also featured and there are ways to makeover old furniture. I like the way that there are similar items shown in cheap, mid and high price ranges. The guides to buying particular articles such as beds are useful and show you what you need to consider when shopping. A buy/sell/swap area lets readers get rid of or find items. There is quite a lot of information and it is very useful for people who are new to diy and decorating. Most... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty of ideas and examples for all budgets
Disadvantages: Slightly pricier than some other glossy house magazines

...Still waiting to move house, feels like I'm going to be here forever, how many people feel like that?? So what with chocolate in hand and a home magazine, life can be escaped for an hour or two (not the chocolate though, that's about 5 seconds)! IPC media who publish this magazine is one of UK's leading consumer magazine publishers selling over 350 million copies each year (so someone else is trying to escape too! or they might be just a little luckier than me and have just got their dream home to attack with wonderful new ideas)?? reaching 70% of UK women and 50% of UK men - 28 million UK adults. Other magazines they publish: Living etc, Homes and Gardens, Woman and Home, What's on TV, Now, Marie Claire, In Style, Loaded, Nuts, NME, Wallpaper, Country Life, The Field, Rugby World, Practical Boat owner, Pick Me Up and TV Easy... Read review

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Advantages: New ideas.
Disadvantages: None.

...Country Homes & Ideas is a magazine for the person who is looking to make their home a little bit special. I have subscribed to this magazine for over two years now, and its content and variety of subject matter never disappoints me. Take for example a typical lifestyle of a typical person. We see all kinds of advertisements on our television, all manner of programmes that we forget to record that have outstanding ideas when it comes to decorating our homes, and making them a little more luxurious, and then there is a magazine that has managed to put all these ideas into detail, and wonderful photography, so that we have a constant reference guide to help us achieve the jobs that we need to achieve in the home. Their writing style is good and easily understandable, but what I like most about this magazine is the WOW factor. How... Read review

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