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This is the *only* magazine I subscribe to. Truly sad news.

ugh, make it stop! :(

I can't breath.......

Augguguguguugh. What is left to buy anymore that has decent content?

just graduated from journalism school. le sigh.

awww, come on! There's going to be nothing left!

Another one bites the dust..

If I worked at Elle Decor I'd be starting my job hunt right about now.

Dang, and I just subscribed!

I don't think I've ever picked up an issue of this magazine, but that's sad for the people who worked there, and for the people who enjoyed reading it.

I still miss Domino every time I flip through one of my back issues.

I like(d) this one.

Ok....now I'm pissed.

This is getting scary. It's like a plague. Very upsetting.

Very sad. I can still remember when it was called "Apartment Life".

GreatFriend is right -- it is like a plague.

devastating....can they bring back Budget Living? There's a magazine for the times!

I hope they're enjoying my subscription renewal fee that just went through.

I only got two magazines, Domino and Met home. Now both are gone. I HATE Elle Decor. I won't buy it.

This is becoming like an Agatha Christie novel -- and then there were none.

I expected this one to go, because it focuses on big, expensive additions and kitchen renovations. But I'm still stunned by the loss of Domino, Blueprint, and other shelter titles that covered interiors that didn't require zillion of dollars.

I'm having to go to foreign magazines to get my fix. Here's hoping Britain continues to publish Living Etc.

This is especially sad for the staff getting let go, right at the end of the year with holidays coming. Here's to hoping that the smart and creative minds from both Domino and Met Home can join forces to fill the (growing) gap in the shelter mag industry.

I am so SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
All my favorites are gone, and I LOVE dog-earring favorite pages, clipping awesome photos of rooms I'll never actually copy, looking forward to what is in my mailbox. You really can't lie in a hot bath and read the blogs like a brand new magazine. The worst of all is that now my husband wins - no more clutter, no more pictures I make him look at, no more requests for products I want him to buy me. Waaaaaaaa.

Awww I love M.H. -- man -- there aren't going to be any good mags left soon.

If you have a subscription I think they will just send you another title in its place. I think that's what happened with another magazine I subscribed to that closed. I started getting Lucky magazine instead.

I never thought I'd see the day...
...but it's about time. I let my subscription lapse over a decade ago, and they have been so irrelevant (That Met Home Showhouse here in SF was the WORST!) that I haven't bothered to pick up a copy off the newsstand in years.

Dwell seems to have already picked up where Met Home left off - I hope that Dwell continues with their excellence in the years to come.

Let's share a moment of silence for yet another fallen favorite. I'm thankful I still have Apartment Therapy for inspiration.

are all shelter mags going to have to go online?

I love the internet and what it has done for us, and at the same time I hate the internet and what it has done for us.

Met Home will be missed.

I wonder if some of Metopolitan Homes' ad revenue went to Apartment Therapy?

It was the first magazine I was really addicted to, when Dorothy Kalins was editor.

Have to admit, I had gotten tired of it in the past 7 or 8 years, but... this is terrible!!!

I really don't like US Elle Decor -- it is the worst, least inspiring and most boring one.

I am very, very sad...

"I wonder if some of Metopolitan Homes' ad revenue went to Apartment Therapy?"

Can you say "Sponsored Post"?

Can't believe MH is folding, you usually have to go through 40 pages of ads before getting to anything of interest.

This really sucks. I like this online decor, but I love decor magazines even more. There is nothing quite the same as flipping through some great pages and ripping out the ones that really inspire me.
And here I almost recycled my old Metropolitan Home. It may just be a collector's item in the future, just like the other magazines.

there is nothing like sitting down with a good magazine. it is a seminal form of escapism. more transporting and uplifting than most anything else.

I have had a subscription to Methome for close to 20 years -- and it is still exciting to get every time it comes. This is a sign that a magazine is doing something right. I can't even get through one issue of Elle Décor.

I suggest everyone on AT that is upset contacts HFM and lets them know how you feel:

http://www.hfmus.com/hfmus/contact_us/contact_us

Nooo, I love Methome!

and I have a two year subscription...they'll probably send me a fashion mag that I have no interest in.

I get MH magazine, can't seem to unsubscribe. Finally, it will stop coming.

Damn it. :(

wow that is a bummer!!!
i lived off of that and domino...and Im still recovering from the loss of domino...what am i going to do?

-liesel
http://faithhopelove365.blogspot.com/

My 2 year renewal just went through. Pizza for everyone!

Aw shucks. another one...gone. It's a cruel world.

Geez! You’re killin’ me!! Budget Living, then Domino! I need the tactile satisfaction of turning a page! Stop the madness!

this is the only home mag i like! i've been a subscriber for years. this is very sad news. they have better content than any other mag. blargh.

This is so depressing. Every time a mag folds, it feels like a small death occurs. And it makes me, as a mag editor, pretty darn pessimistic about this industry's (and mine in it) future. Is this the end of magazines?

http://www.bookliciousblog.com

Well, let's hope Living, Etc. hangs on. I have to say that Metropolitan Home had lost my interest in recent years -- it began to seem sort of staid and boring and too upscale. If Living Etc could start an American edition, all would end well.

I've also been somewhat meh on MH recently, but that's happened before (subscribing for about 25 years) and they've sprung back. Now they won't have a chance to spring back again. :(

I think they may have started the "high/low"-type feature, which I've now seen copied other places. That's what I'll really miss! The editor's page was also better than most, although I've yet to see anyone whose editorials are up to Dominique Browning's. (RIP, HG...)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have liked and bought Met Home for thirty years, starting when it was Apartment Life. Having said that, I thought it was too upscale for the times and wondered how it was doing. Those $80K - $100K kitchen makeovers just aren't relevant right now.

AT has the right vibe, but bepsf has a point -- sometimes the cross-over between the advertisers and the posts are a little ethically uncomfortable, and the fact that some retailers "sponsor" entire posts makes me really squirmy ...

It's a time of great change, and it's a pity that so many publishers are pulling the plug on these magazines when the housing market is now just struggling to get on its feet. Rather short-sighted. Why not slim down, revamp, and rethink?

Elle Decor, IMHO, is really uninspiring. It's just shelter porn. I think everyone gave John Mayer's loft -- recent cover fodder, a big thumbs down. I miss Domino. Heaven preserve Dwell.

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Another sad day for shelter mags and magazines in general. I've subscribed to MH for years and always found it more accessible than Elle Decor, less dogmatic than Dwell and far more relevant than stodgy, ridiculous Arch Digest. I'll also miss Donna Warner's upbeat, thoughtful editor's notes as much as I will miss Ruth Reichl's at Gourmet. Just really sad.

OK, so what happens to the balance of my subscription? Dang! I had let go of my Elle Decor subscription and Met Home was my one indulgence. What's a girl to do?

For those of you wondering what happens to your subscriptions, usually the balance is applied to another mag from the same publisher that has a similar focus.

Evangeline
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http://www.bookliciousblog.com

Or a totally unsimilar focus... as when I started getting Glamour and Nylon when two of my shelter mags folded.

These companies really care nothing for their faithful subscribers. In one case I had just renewed. In the other case, I had just started a subscription (for myself and for a friend) and neither of us received a single issue.

The mag execs know months in advance when the axe is falling, but gladly continue taking in revenues from people who send them in good faith.

Despicable, IMO.

This is one time I am thankful to be a procrastinator... They just called me to re-new my subscription for 4 more years at 50 cents an issue. I was going to send the form back in this week. Glad I didn't, I do not like Elle Decor.