Dammit! Two of my favorite home magazines are gone.

[Flaxbee]

I liked Cottage Living and Domino... but Cottage Living the most. They're both gone now, just shut down in the last 4-5 months. They kind of represented a midpoint between completely unattainable Architectural Digest / Elle Decor / Western Interior bullshit that caters only to the very wealthy (people who don't ever leave a book out of place), and the overly cutesy craftsy teddy-bears and frills magazines. I like, on occasion, Natural Home and I've always liked Dwell, but CL and Domino often had really interesting (and affordable) ideas that didn't cater to an extreme modernist, or classical, idea. I guess I liked them because they were cozy, and when I am totally stressed out, they allowed me to fantasize about the house I hope to eventually own.

And even further dammit, House and Garden went away, and subscribers were redirected to Domino, which then folded (even though Domino had a HUGE circulation; apparently only ad revenues count, fuck whatever the consumer wants to read, right?)

:grr:

Any of your favorite magazines go under recently? Any suggestions for me to replace my Cottage Living / Domino / House and Garden fixation?

[XemaSab]

1. You and my mom

We're stuck with Sunset here.

[Flaxbee]

3. I like Sunset, actually, I love Sunset -

my dad has a lot of the earlier ones I remember looking through in the 70s and 80s. But it is more of an all-purpose magazine, not specifically dedicated to homey stuff....

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Ever read Cottages and Bungalows?

And, here's a link you'll probably enjoy.
http://www.bhg.com/decorating/decorating-style/cottage/cottage-style-rooms/?ordersrc=google1cottagestyle_slide&cobrandId=ww5&s_kwcid=ContentNetwork|1399230922


I used to always pick up Decorate With Paint.
haven't seen it on the stands for months.

[Flaxbee]

4. I think I just saw a copy of it last night as I was searching for

Cottage Living at the bookstore... thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

I hate to see some of these go away. I'd have no problem (well, only a small one) if the magazines went to web-only versions; if it saves trees, I'm happy about it. But to have all the resources just go *poof* upsets me.

And it seems we're left with unattainable style (like Arch. Digest) or suffocatingly homey stuff I'll never get around to doing (Martha Stewart, though she has great recipes and garden stuff) ... no middle ground.

[RebelOne]

5. I am a copy editor for outdoors magazines.

And I am worried that our publications are going to go belly up soon. There were 3 copy editors and 2 were laid off just before Xmas. We published 30 hunting and fishing magazines for most of the U.S. Each copy editor each did 10. They have cut them back to just 28 now. So, now I am doing the work of 3 people. The big honchos in our NY office said to just let the magazines go out as is after the editors do their thing. But I can't do that, as none of the editors pay any attention to proper grammar, spelling or punctuation. So, to me, it appears that if the main office doesn't care how the magazines look when they hit the newsstands, then we are not going to be around for too much longer.

[Ivan Sputnik]

6. As the middle class shrinks....

media that serve that class are disappearing. The markets that advertisers want to reach now are either "upscale" consumers (wealthy people with lots of disposable income) or the "lowest common denominator".