Review rated by 26 Ciao members on average: very helpful
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Since writing this op Your Home magazine has changed slightly. There is a price reduction and unfortunately there are 16 pages less but it is still a fabulous magazine. What's more though, I have recently subscribed to it at a cost of just £1.00 per issue! That's a whopping saving of £7.20 per year!
Time to update this op so please give it a read and re-rate if necessary! Cheers xxx
Your Home magazine is a brilliant mag for the home-lover! It gives so much advice and hints & tips on how to create a beautiful home on a budget. The mag has 130 pages to give guidance and ideas for bringing the home to life and is aimed at the 'normal' person who doesn't have thousands of pounds to spend on a lamp or a rug..! It's not a typical 'show-house' mag at all.
Each issue is full of ideas like how to get the correct lighting for your needs or updates for your kitchen and bathroom, loft conversions and beautiful bedrooms and easy to achieve garden style.
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'Changing Rooms' and 'House Invaders' gives a monthly decorating masterclass within the mag and The House Doctor herself, Ann Maurice helps to update and brighten up a room in a lucky reader's home. There are loads of real homes & makeovers featured, practical home solutions, home improvements,and a letters page whereby you could win a £150 star prize if your letter is published as the Letter of the Month.
My favourite monthly makeover idea is the category called 'No-money makeover' and each month gives an area of a reader's house a makeover with little or no cash! One of my favourite room makeovers was in an issue last year and featured a reader's hallway that was quite drab and dated but given a makeover by Your Home's stylist Jane Kharade and made to look fantastic. Jane painted under the dado rail in the hall and up the stairs in Morroccan Red Duracoat for a tough finish and then Corn vinyl silk on the rest of the walls to brighten the whole area up. Next she painted the woodwork and skirting in Brilliant White Satinwood. Jane found an under-used chest of drawers and oiled and painted them to co-ordinate with the wooden floor and the walls. Adding the same colour scheme to the telephone table and revitalising an old pan-lid rack to make a newspaper rack really brought the hallway up to date and inviting. She made a hall runner with some leftover beige carpet and some carpet tile samples, and took away the existing folding door that led into the kitchen and replaced it with a colour co-ordinated curtain and a rail made from an old fishing rod!!
The whole project cost an unbelievable £55.02 and totally changed the look of the entrance hall. The owner was so pleased as she only had a budget of £60 so she had enough money left over for a treat for herself...!
Another is this month's (may 2003) small garden makeover. "From scruffy patio to colourful garden for under £100!" I'm always interested in small garden makeovers as we live in an eighties built house that has postage stamps for gardens, and anything that will make it more exciting is a bonus to me. Jaki Draper had one such featureless garden so she asked Your Home to come and help her to liven it up. Your Home sent Victoria Hellum along who showed Jaki how to use colourful lighting and accessories to achieve the look she was after.
As the garden was partly paved Victoria made a decking area out of the rest of the garden using timber floor tiles and edging it with white gravel. She fixed a rustic looking reed panel to a neighbours unsightly garage wall and hung coloured paper lanterns along it. Victoria added trellis to a side wall and hung some painted planted pots to it using pot rings and totally brought the wall to life and gave it a mediterranian feel. Along with some coloured garden flares and painted stones Jaki's garden was transformed into something quite beautiful. ! The whole project cost Jaki £99.31 and it really looks like a lot of hard work and hard cash has gone into it but now you, me and all Your Home readers know better! (I am so ready to get cracking with my own now, even stealing ideas from this)
The only advertisements within the magazine are all to do with the house. For example ads like sofa workshops, appliances, conservatories, mortgages and flooring specialists. The only ad that doesn't directly associate with DIY is the one for a hand cream, but on reflection you would certainly need it if you are a keen DIYer.!
There are loads of ideas from lighting to lofts, from fireplaces to fun ideas for the kid's rooms ! Your Home also has a £20,000 shopping spree in Debenhams. To find out if you've won you have to ring the phone number costing 75p a minute (which lasts for 2.5 mins) and see if the number on the front of the mag matches that of the winning number.
There is the obligatory stockists page which gives all contact numbers and addresses for all companies mentioned within the magazine. There is a hotline where you can order any back issues that may have been missed. (01858 438838)
Your Home is published by The National Magazine Company Limited and is available from all good newsagents and supermarkets. Priced at £1.60 per issue it is very good value indeed. It comes out every month in advance and has it's own web site.
Overall this magazine is a brilliantly priced, idea inspiringly fantasmagorical magazine for the keen amateur home-interior designer!!
To subscribe either fill in the form inside the magazine or call 01858 438844.
I'm a sucker for home improvement magazines - I love Your Home too. Just about to move house - we've decorated all we can here and need a new challenge - so a subscription might be a good idea! Your op's made me think that perhaps Your Home might be the one - bargain subscription price! x x
26.05.2003 18:45
I'm a sucker for home improvement magazines - I love Your Home too. Just about to move house - we've decorated all we can here and need a new challenge - so a subscription might be a good idea! Your op's made me think that perhaps Your Home might be the one - bargain subscription price! x x
22.05.2003 17:37
Will defenitly look out for this
13.05.2003 12:56
Oh my wife will be loving this if she does not have it already.