The magazine that helps you think like a designer, architect, landscaper, and decorator. Live the life of your dreams with House & Garden.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Interiors Are A Bit Too Modern
Comment: Interior decor is dedicated to contempary. Love the gardening articles. Love the celebrity interviews.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: House & Garden my foot
Comment: I am extremely disappointed that I used my Valentine's Gift Certifcate to purchase this magazine. I find that it is nothing like what I thought, helpful hints on painting, decorating etc. It is simply advertisements. I'd love to cancel this subscription and not lose the benefit of my gift.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: the house as castle
Comment:
HOUSE & GARDEN is a big, beautiful, in-your-face collection of colors and designs for the well-heeled reader without children in diapers or other unstylish impediments to the concept of home as castle.

For many of us, that's not a bad idea, just one that belongs to a stage of life that may or may not become reality. In the meantime, I find value in HOUSE AND GARDEN as a source of ideas for my much more lived-in-home, complete with two teenagers, two dogs, one cat, one very large fish, and mud flecked with things both mundane and unspeakable that gets tracked in from the backyard where dogs, humans, and wild birds run wild.

The creative articles are squeezed in among luxury and near-luxury advertisements that are themselves a sort of art form.

I respect the genre for its high standards, and also because I see what magazines like this one mean to a high-end spec home builder friend of mine, whose mind is always alert to architectural, design, and decorative ideas that percolate and then emerge in the shape of stunning homes that leave me breathless, admiring, and ready to retreat to my little home in the Heartland with its dog tracks and teenager debris.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful designs and ideas
Comment: As an interior design student, I find this magazine a wonderful source of inspiration, variety, and creativity. This magazine is more about art and design than advice on "do it yourself" decorating or cheap furniture finds, so:

do NOT subscribe to this if you are expecting the latter or else you will be sorely disappointed and become one of the reviewers who give one-two star reviews here because they had expected this magazine to have a different, more practical purpose.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't judge the contents by its title
Comment: Great for filling the doctors office magazine selection - if it's free - but not worth your money to own. I bought if for gardening inspiration and there is really nothing about gardens or gardening in here. Oh, once in a while they remember to put a garden shot in the magazine, but not consistently. The home section isn't that inspirational either. Go for it if it's free, but if it's not, don't buy it.

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