Country's Not Just Cows & Pigs
Pros:
Beautiful photos including cover, great content in general
Cons:
A bit pricy
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Author's Review
Country Home may be a magazine you've avoided only because you don't want to decorate with cutesy cows and pigs on your wallpaper. Well, if you were country before it was cool you may want to come back and see what it's all about now. And a good place to start would be Country Home magazine.
Country Home is filled with decorating tips, information on antiques and collectibles, great home-cookin' recipes, incredible garden tips, and various other information centering on country style decorating and collecting.
Here's some examples from the August 2000 issue:
Cover....I start with this only because this magazine has such lovely covers. From great decorating examples, nice holidays pictures, or (this time) just a nice arrangements of older table linens your grandma probably owned.
Main Articles....Nice example of renovations done on a Nantucket home, fun article on making your yard sale an "event", another home is visited (this time in California), good article for collectors on personalizing your collections, and lastly another example (from Minnesota) of a collections of cabins a family owns.
Departments....Expect interesting blurbs in Seen & Noted, tips on building your home or great additions to your current one in Goods & Services, nice information on planning your garden and what to do in each season in Garden, and seasonal food preparation in Field Notes.
Shopping....Here's a magazine in which I don't mind reading the ads. I'd say about 95% are applicable to country decorating and there's a great Sources section if you'd like to purchase something you've seen in the magazine.
Also in every issue....Editor letter, reader letters, "country thoughts", travel calendar (includes a listing of when various antiques shows are going on), food.
Paper is a nice heavy weight, ads are pretty typical of a magazine of this stature but most are applicable to content. Total pages this time around were 176. A good magazine for reading and then holding onto for reference in your home or just to lay on the coffee table and look nice.
Any cons? Well, it could be considered moderately pricy. 8 issues (not 6 as listed on Epinion's listing) are sent in Feb, Apr, May June, Aug, Sept, Oct, and Dec. Barring any specials the cost is $21.97 in the US.
