Design magazines, while entertaining and inspiring, can sometimes be a burden for many design junkies when they begin to pile up in unattractive ways. We found one design junkie who’s found an interesting and attractive way to tame those piles of magazines…
Inspiration: Design Magazine Solution!
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Using a vintage Coca Cola wooden bottle holder, Jennifer Perkins, of Naughty Secretary Club fame was able to create an interesting under-the-table arrangement of magazines by rolling them tightly and placing them in the segments of the wooden box. 
By using different sized magazines and publications with colorful covers, the rolled up magazines create a colorful, bold, circular and eye-catching pattern where otherwise there would just be a stack!
Before you ask, yes, this method does leave your magazines with a mildly undesirable rolled shape, and so Jennifer suggests not doing this with your favorite magazines or the ones with articles you want to keep. Even if this magazine idea doesn’t quite float your boat, you’re going to want to check back to Apartment Therapy this Friday when you’ll be able to see the funky Austin home tour of Jennifer Perkins! What’s your favorite idea to handle design magazines? Let us know!
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Man.I thought i was really slick when I thought this up! Guess I'm not the only one. I took it a little further and I have four crates of pepsi, sprite, dr. pepper, and coke lined up with magazines in them, and I have each subscription I have in each one, so it actually has a more polished look than this, but same idea
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To manage what looks like a fairly small stack of magazines (20-24 unique titles?) into an undesirable rolled shape ... doesn't look as nice as just a stack, and it looks hard to find the one you want. If the collection of water pistols on the side table is any indication, I can't wait to see another batch of Austin Wack-a-doo.
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This may seem freakishly time-consuming, but I go through magazines each month with an exacto knife and cut out only the rooms/recipes/articles I might want to reference later, 3-hole punch them, and add them to binders. I recycle the rest of the magazine (mostly advertising) and have ready-made (and domino and martha stewart) inspiration books.
view no accounting for taste's profile
I'll stick with my simple leather magazine baskets...
view bepsf's profile
Yeah, I'm not a fan of rolling up magazines. And like K T G said they don't look very organized. While no accounting for taste's method MIGHT be a little time consuming, I am more inclined to follow that trend. But to each his own! My OCD should not affect those that are more... "Wack-a-doo"?
view Lizzard's profile
KTG--maybe Wack-a-doo should be it's own site? The Bad Taste Blog?
view Palmetto's profile
KTG--maybe Wack-A-Doo could be a spin-off site? The Bad Taste Blog?
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"...Jennifer suggests not doing this with your favorite magazines or the ones with articles you want to keep."
Why not just throw away the magazines you don't want to keep instead of rolling them up and sticking them in a box?
Am I missing something here?
view Grumpy Girl's profile
I should add that this works for me because I use magazines that dont have spines... The economist, time, newsweek, usweekly.. it doesnt damage them and works great.
view hmillic's profile
Over and over I'm advised to reduce clutter but this looks horribly cluttered to me.
view ChrisToronto's profile
I don't get this at all. What's wrong with small stacks and throwing things away?
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