This magazine is editorially focused on the art of living well. It contains coverage of home design, furnishings, fashion, food, wine and spirits, entertaining, electronics and travel. It is aimed at quality-conscious young adults seeking personal style and comfort in decorating.
Filled with the latest in home design inspiration, Metropolitan Home offers its readers full-color layouts of innovative and classic homes, insightful commentary on architectural trends and interior decoration, and notes on home peripherals in its "TechNotes" and "Collecting" sections. Beautiful home pictorials offer a wide variety of visual examples for the aspiring designer. The magazine tends to focus on multibedroom homes, but it does sometimes branch out to cover smaller city dwellings such as apartments and condominiums, and even, in one 2001 issue, rooftop gardens. --Jonathon Tudor

Customer Rating:
Summary: I apologize to the trees that gave their lives for my subscription.
Comment: My choice was to subscribe to this magazine, or let my frequent flier miles expire. The practical penny pincher won out, so here I am, with my final issue, and grateful for the end. The end of searching fruitlessly for articles featured on the cover, but nowhere to be found amidst the overwhelming sea of advertisements inside (although the ads may be the best part of the magazine). The end of flipping pages furiously, but never quite fast enough, through endless stark and impractical designs. The end of lugging around this glossy and hefty mass of empty calories, never finding any substantial nourishment for my home decorating needs.

Had I known then what I know now, I would have saved some trees and abandoned my miles.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Inflated Amazon Price
Comment: $13.97 for a one year subscription from Amazon and the subscription card has it for $10.00?

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Modern Decor and Interior Decorating Ideas.. Design Ideas
Comment: A little mored edgy and current than Architectural Digest, this magazine is a good showcase of what's new.
The articles are not all that long as I write this review, but mostly the ads for new products or the pictures of what people have done to interior space is why you buy this magazine anyway.
Focusing on the hot or trendy or just new is not a bad thing. It's a good thing if you know that is what you want to see.
For more behind the scenes of famous or ultra chic houses I would recommend Architectural Digest [1-year subscription] as it is the long time established leader in showing historic, landmark or famous homes.
These two magazines go well together to from a package of ideas. Metropolitan Home for the hot and trendy and Architectural Digest for the famous and historical view of interior design.
There are also the occasional cooking or gardening articles and I enjoy them as a nice change of pace from the main content of the magazine.
If you are an interior decorator or want to know what to stock a home furnishing store with when it comes to new stuff you could sure use this as a guide.
Finally, if you are considering getting away from it all in your own little retreat of a house, this is sure to inspire you with some ideas.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Make Your Home Look Modern and New
Comment: Home decorating isn't a subject in which I am well versed. In the past, I thought very little about the interior appearance of my residence and generally went for the lowest price when I shopped for new furniture or decorations. I kept my house clean, of course, but I wasn't all that concerned about keeping pace with the latest home fashions. Now, with a new home and a fresh start, I pay much greater attention to home decor and Metropolitan Home is one of my favorite magazines in its genre. It is a home design publication designed for those who want to keep pace with the latest styles and trends in home decor. Each issue features plenty of articles about modern interior decorating with a flair for the non- traditional look. This is a magazine intended for those who are hip and like to stay in tune with the latest fads and styles.

Among the several home decor magazines I read each month, Metropolitan Home ranks as my favorite and the reasons I like it so much boil down to the simplicity of many of the featured decor enhancements and the reasonable prices. The modern look that Metropolitan Home displays and encourages is different from other magazines and it isn't what I expected to see when I picked up a copy of this magazine for the first time. Many modern pieces of furniture and modern carpet, paint, etc., consist of solid colors and the rooms consist of a minimal amount of furniture. This struck me as boring at first, but the more I looked through this magazine, the more I liked it. Unlike the more traditional home, you won't see patterns, flowers, crowded rooms, and multiple colors. The modern look is more straightforward and direct, like a display found in a contemporary art museum.

The other thing I like about Metropolitan Home is that the prices of the items are more moderate in scope. Unlike some magazines that feature jaw- dropping prices, the cost of many items in Metropolitan Home are more reasonable. They aren't cheap and they will cost you more than you would pay for a comparable item at your local department store, but they are inexpensive enough to fit within the limits of most budgets.

Overall, I like Metropolitan Home and I will continue to read it each month as I search for ways to improve and re- design some rooms of my new home. I don't know how long it will take for the novelty of my new house to fade out, but until that time, I will count on the ideas presented by Metropolitan Home to keep my home looking modern and new.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Spot the Mies van der Rohe daybed in each issue!
Comment: Like "Where's Waldo", it seems every issue must have at least one, if not several Mies van der Rohe daybeds. While this is admitedly a classic piece of furniture, one gets the impression that there are a gaggle of designers telling their clients, "You have to have one of these, they're what's IN!" Most of the features in Metropolitan Home suffer from the same fate; dreary antiseptic homes with the same dreary interiors that obviously were foisted upon gullible, uninformed clients by designers who know how to make an easy buck. "Modern" equals, of course, a Mies van der Rohe daybed (notice how many times it shows up in this review?), otherwise you get month after month of 1970's florals, faux Louis the Whatever tables. Even using feature extraction, wading through the dreck and finding something useable for your own purposes, it's painful to look through this magazine. If you really want ideas for making your house reflect you, trust yourself and what YOU like, and if you do like Mies van der Rohe daybeds, by all means get one. Just don't plunk one in your sun room because you were told it's trendy. If you like the Modern style, look up the works of Hans Wegner and Peter Hvidt and go from there; their furniture still looks stylish after 50 years of hard use by real families and is sturdy as well. Maybe you want a house where nobody is allowed to set foot in any of the rooms and amounts to a bad hodge-podge of styles that all seem a bit busy and bumpy. For everyone else, think about the things you'd like to see if you walked into a room, save your money and skip this magazine.

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