Country Home Magazine: Bring the Country Home to You

Many people enjoy life and living in the country, and there are even more who like the décor, food, and other customs of the country even though they live in an urbanized area and have no interest in moving. If you like country style but prefer living in the city, then you might enjoy Country Home, a magazine for those who like the down- home style.

Basic Contents of This Magazine:

With Country Home, the reader gets between 100 and 130 pages per issue with the following main departments:

Nest
Cuttings
Dish
Welcome
Reader Letters
Recipes
Sources
Slow Lane

Along with the above departments, Country Home includes other departments that vary from issue to issue, like Antique Highway, Real Life Decorating, and others. Each issue can also be counted on for about five longer featured articles.

Magazine Web Page/Pricing:

Finding out about this magazine on the world wide web is as simple as visiting the web site, countryhome.com. The web site offers more than just a place to buy the magazine- it also offers many glimpses into the main departments as well as a free newsletter, blog, buying guide, and events calendar.

Subscriptions to Country Home sell for various prices and it is common to find prices that vary greatly from one web site to the next. The standard going rate is around $25 for two years (10 per year, so 20 issues total), but with a small effort, consumers can easily find better deals and some are as low as $16 for two years.

Final Thoughts:

Country Home is a magazine that is all about bringing the country home to you, regardless of where you might live. “A More Modern Country” is the subtitle often used with Country Home Magazine and it most certainly lives up to this title, with articles and decorating ideas that are certainly country in nature, but with a modern flair.

I am certainly no advocate of country living and I have no interest in selling my home and purchasing a farm. But I still like Country Home magazine for several reasons. Most important of all, I like that Country Home doesn’t push or go all- out in favor of the country look and/or country lifestyle. This was a pleasant surprise when I started to read Country Home for the first time. I was really expecting a magazine that was all about the country lifestyle, complete with recipes for grits, outhouse remodeling tips, and wicker furniture. But Country Home isn’t like that at all. This magazine is certainly country- oriented, but it emphasizes a more modern country look for the home that can be applied to most any household, regardless of location.

Country Home offers several different sections and features but the theme that the magazine continues to return to is that of home decorating. Open up an issue at any point, thumb through the pages, and what do you see? Mostly, articles on antiques, decorating, collectibles, flowers, and other like items. There are also some recipes offered in different parts of Country Home, and they offer some interesting recipes made southern style.

This magazine certainly attempts to keep its country roots modernized, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find anything that is truly down home in the pages of Country Home. There are some very, shall we say, “rustic” suggestions for home décor in the pages of Country Home and some of them will likely turn off the majority of city- dwelling readers. I tend to flip past these articles when I read Country Home. They are a little too country- ish for my tastes. The other articles about home decorating are at least modern looking enough to consider, even though it is doubtful I would ever adopt one of the styles mentioned in this magazine.

Country Home offers a good amount of advertising and there is one fact that makes the magazine a little more financially worthwhile than others: The inclusion of coupons. There aren’t a large number of coupon discounts, but each issue can be counted on for a few discounts on different food and drink products. These coupons can be for just about anything. They do not necessarily follow the magazine’s country theme. Using a few of them will easily pay for the price of each issue.

Overall, Country Home is a very good magazine, and that says a lot considering I have little or no interest in the country theme for home décor. The reason I like the magazine anyway is because of the writing, the antique articles, the occasional travel article, and the collectibles ideas, not to mention the recipes. Everything combines together to equal a total greater than the sum of its parts and it makes Country Home a very appealing magazine for everyone.