Latest Country Living Magazine.

nomar · ‎03-12-2010

I have already broken my promise to myself to limit myself to these blogs, but I just finished looking at my new Country Living Magazine and maybe (just maybe) the minimal look is going the other way. The magazine was full of country and homey rooms. Not like the oldest versions or the old Colonial Home magazine (which thank goodness I kept) but it looks like a trend of putting personalities back in the home. Perhaps the Joanna and Chip shows has created this change. Would you like to see more of the homey look or are you liking the Less is More concept? When I clean house, I wish I had the less is more concept!!

kitcat51 · ‎09-15-2016

Loved the old Country Living, I had a subscription & would run to the mailbox hoping it had arrived...then it went to slap of coat of white paint on it & I haven't looked at in years. I have old issues of CL, Country Home & Colonial Home, still enjoy looking at them. The only magazine I get now is A Primitive Place & once in a while will pick up Country Sampler. My home is decorated in a country primitive style & I collect furniture & smalls made by Whims, all 2nd hand. I like all styles of decorating but couldn't live in them.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

Oh goody!

I too used to subscribe to Country Living and I savored each and every page, including the ads. I still have quite a few old ones from the 80's and 90's that I still pull out several times a year and just pour over again and again.

I can't believe how far the magazine has fallen, and I was still picking up copies at thrifts stores for 25 cents each, but the last few I did , from the last couple of years, weren't even worth a quarter to me. I looked at them and donated them back. I'd sworn off the new ones totally (feeling the same about all the old Reiman Publication magazines as well).

Maybe the tables have turned.

My old Country Living had so much to read. Stories and features. And the houses featured, they really did big layouts on. Not so much anymore. And they are thinner and thinner every year.

I love to find vintage magazines in thrift stores, and bring them home to read. I keep some, and redonate others. I especially like the old ads. They really take me back!

Ruby Laine · ‎05-25-2016

Hello, @nomar! I’ve been reading Country Living since the 1980s; although the rooms seem busy to me, there’s just something about them that I really like. I think you can have homey AND less is more. I have some antiques that have been in my family since the early 1800s, and I love having them out. However, I don’t have a lot of “stuff” sitting around, and I don’t buy things to just have sitting around.

I have dark hardwood floors and warm area rugs. I think the drapes/curtains you choose can make a sparse area look homey, too. Our furniture is more traditional. The kind of lamps you have can make a big difference. I’m not a minimalist, but I like bare spots!

Is Country Home still published? I liked that magazine, too. You gave me something to think about!

nomar · ‎03-12-2010

@Ruby Laine wrote:
Hello, @nomar! I’ve been reading Country Living since the 1980s; although the rooms seem busy to me, there’s just something about them that I really like. I think you can have homey AND less is more. I have some antiques that have been in my family since the early 1800s, and I love having them out. However, I don’t have a lot of “stuff” sitting around, and I don’t buy things to just have sitting around.

I have dark hardwood floors and warm area rugs. I think the drapes/curtains you choose can make a sparse area look homey, too. Our furniture is more traditional. The kind of lamps you have can make a big difference. I’m not a minimalist, but I like bare spots!

Is Country Home
@Ruby Laine wrote:
Hello, @nomar! I’ve been reading Country Living since the 1980s; although the rooms seem busy to me, there’s just something about them that I really like. I think you can have homey AND less is more. I have some antiques that have been in my family since the early 1800s, and I love having them out. However, I don’t have a lot of “stuff” sitting around, and I don’t buy things to just have sitting around.

I have dark hardwood floors and warm area rugs. I think the drapes/curtains you choose can make a sparse area look homey, too. Our furniture is more traditional. The kind of lamps you have can make a big difference. I’m not a minimalist, but I like bare spots!

Is Country Home still published? I liked that magazine, too. You gave me something to think about!

still published? I liked that magazine, too. You gave me something to think about!

Sorry I do not know how to include your question about Country Home. I am still trying to figure out this format since I have been away for so long. I do not get any mailers requesting a subscription from Country Home, so I assume they are not publishing. Luckily, I still have a stash of them also. Loved the old magazines. I do agree with you in needing some bare spots and a place for the eyes to rest in a room.

kitcat51 · ‎09-15-2016

@Ruby Laine wrote:
Hello, @nomar! I’ve been reading Country Living since the 1980s; although the rooms seem busy to me, there’s just something about them that I really like. I think you can have homey AND less is more. I have some antiques that have been in my family since the early 1800s, and I love having them out. However, I don’t have a lot of “stuff” sitting around, and I don’t buy things to just have sitting around.

I have dark hardwood floors and warm area rugs. I think the drapes/curtains you choose can make a sparse area look homey, too. Our furniture is more traditional. The kind of lamps you have can make a big difference. I’m not a minimalist, but I like bare spots!

Is Country Home still published? I liked that magazine, too. You gave me something to think about!

Country Home stopped publishing a long time ago. Take a look at A Primitive Place website, I think you'll like it, it's the only magazine subscription I have.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

There are very few looks I dislike, but when it comes to my house, everything is very average looking and not too cluttered.

Scooty · ‎06-28-2010

Country Home is now published four times a year.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

When I was first married I looked at decorating magazines all the time.Now a days I tend more to rely on my own eye to tell me if something is a hit or a miss.Except for occasional new sofas & chairs I have been decorating with the same furniture in my living room for 35 years.

nomar · ‎03-12-2010

Thanks for the heads up on the Primative Website. My home is more traditional with antiques scattered about that we have acquired over our many years of marriage and going antiquing when it was a very popular thing to do. But, I love to get ideas for groupings of items to decorate with. It seems Country Sampler Magazine gives me that. While I love what I see in Country Sampler and some of the old magazines of years ago (like the old Country Living) I could not do with our style of living, but the ideas sure come to me when I see what they do with primatives, vintage, or antique items and then put all the seasonal finishing touches on them to "paint a picture."