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never really looked at domino...
so i have to say dwell, because that is what I've been getting for the last couple years. I do have to say that since their format change about a year ago it isn't a good...oh well.

I also get ready made mag, but will cancel i think...it has far too little projects to make it worthwhile and seems to be more about what kind of coffee some artsy guy likes to drink. lame.

I would like to subscribe to Living Etc. but it costs around $150/yr. I just go to Barnes and Noble, buy a cup of coffee, and read the magazine there.

I'm done with print -- not green, content too skimpy/unsatisfying and their customer service depts are the dregs.

Anyway, whatever you want is on some blog, likely this one.

http://www.magazinedeathpool.com/

Marie Claire Maison.

I still like print mags. They were inspiration for lots of posts on my fav. blogs, so I know they will be missed by the bloggers. I think it is the tactile experience of turning the pages,or that you could leave them out to look at for a few minutes at a time, or archive for later use...Whatever it is, they will be greatly missed. I subscribe to Met Home, House Beautiful, Traditional home, Real Simple, Elle Decor and (the late) domino. I will still pick up the occasional Living Inc or Canadian House and Home at Barnes and Noble but not subscribe to another mag. until this recession is over.

i do read beauty & fashion mags in print but as far as design goes, i find most of them to be too full of ads & fluff to bother. when i discovered AT, i ended my domino subscription. blogs are the new mag.

Real Living Australia. My favorite anyway.

i wish it were cheaper to get some of the uk mags! right now, though, i have really been loving house and home. if they step it up and introduce some new content as a way to take over the domino audience, i think they could do well.

i'm hoping we'll see a new make with similarities to domino in the future, because there's really nothing else like it out there!

Domino was my last subscription, and I don't think I'll be starting any new ones. I get so much fabulous inspiration online.

I used to read many of these mags, but all of them seem to eventually get off track with the ridiculously high-end focus. Dwell and ReadyMade both started out genuinely DIY, and both have become increasingly catalogs for expensive furniture and not much else.

I have the DWR website to show me pretty pictures of things I can never have.

I do have a weakness for Cote Sud that will probably be indulged on occasion...just can't help myself.

Living Etc is amazing.. wish I could afford a subscription! Can barely allow myself to fork out the $10 an issue from the store every so often.

I find Dwell to be kind of hit and miss.. as if I keep hoping it'll blow me away and yet never really does.. and yet I keep hoping.

Seriously considering Canadian House and Home. Kind of miffed however by their Digital Subscription.. only $2 (!!!!) less than a print subscription. HA!

i saved every issue too! In fact I can tear pages and compare them to areas in my house that were inspired by the magazine. Have to say that ads are going out to digital media and away from paper based media. digital ads are much more focused on specific consumers and more cost effective, and blogs and websites are less expensive to produce - so that's where the profit is. I bet the group will come back with another version of the domino concept that is all digital within 6 months.

i love real living and living etc though they will be more expensive to subscribe to.

Ugh. Now I have to suffer through the architectural circle jerk that is Dwell. Most of the others are way too high end for me to pick off the racks. Readymade is good, but the focus was different from Domino. It scratches a totally different itch.

Still love Met Home. And remember the wacky Nest magazine? Very cool!

atomic ranch gets my pic. cool mag. I love Azure also

domino is ending? sad! i get giddy when i find it in my mailbox. even if it isn't green, i still adore it. alas.

After Budget Living got canceled I got a subscription to Blueprint. Then that got canceled and I got a subscription to Domino.

I'm done with new mags. I'm sticking to two established magazines: Ready Made and Dwell, and I'll let my Met Home subscription run out.

I'll just stick to getting my design fix online otherwise.

****Canadian House & Home*** all the way!!!!

Domino didn't have that much value for what it was.

InsideOut. Love that Magazine.

Yes, "Canadian House & Home" for sure.
Lynda Reeves is a genius.

I think Ready Made is going away too:(

There is now a cool francais edition for "Canadian House & Home" called "Maison & Demeure" ~
http://www.maisonetdemeure.com/index.php?lang=fr
http://www.houseandhome.com/

Love that magazine SO MUCH!! More classy and sophisticated than Domino.
To add to Lynda Reeves comment... Suzanne Dimma is a genius!!!

Que tristesa...I too have every issue of Domino and will treasure them always - I will miss the thrill of it's monthly delivery which was akin to the utter excitement my mom and I felt when the mailman delivered our monthly welfare check way back when...good times.

Australian Vogue living and Living Etc. are fantastico too!

No no, not ready made too!!!!
I can't take it, I'm a magazine junkie at heart. In college (at FIT) I could justify my obscene spending habit on foreign fashion magazines as part of educational expenses. Now that my attentions have turned to home design, I just see my options dwindling away. Budget Living, Blueprint, now Domino and (gasp!) Ready Made possibly??? I'm praying that Atomic Ranch stays afloat (especially since I sell it in my store, shameless plus) and maybe Living Etc will start a US version, we can all wish...

that should have said shameless plug...that's what i get

I was wondering where the heck my latest issue was. *sigh*

Ready Made is out of business too....

{I can't vote here in this coffee shop! What wit that?}
Anyhow.....
Does anyone else notice that the first 3/4 of *Elle Decor* is pure advertisements? BLAH!!
It is only the last 1/3, if that, where all the dreamy, uppercrust decor images are at! A pompous waste of space, time and money (for me!)
Some editions of *Style at Home* are decent.
But *Canadian H&H* is CONSISTENTLY awesome!! (and will NOT be folding anytime soon! It is Canada's favourite with a tv show hosted by Ms Reeves herself!)
It is hard to find reliable, dependably fabulous shelter mags these days, but this is by far my fav.

I just paid for a 3 year subscription of Ready Made, I sure hope they aren't out of business....
I loved domino and blueprint, this is a depressing year so far.

There's a hole in my heart that won't be refilled.

I think this is a message loud & clear to American publishers. What I find so appealing about Living Etc. is not just the quality of its content but also the quantity of it. I always feel like I got my money's worth (even at that high price) because there's page after page of fresh ideas. Nothing cold or modern but also nothing fussy and old-fashioned.

I've subscribed to ELLE Decor and Met Home in the past. It only took a matter of minutes to flip through and read them. Rarely tore any pages out to keep. Straight into the recycling bin. But there's several issues of Domino, Blueprint, ReadyMade and Living Etc. on a shelf. Living in a tiny apartment, these mags were worth taking up precious space. I really hope we see a strong contender emerge in the near future, despite the tough times in publishing. One of life's little pleasures is curling up in a comfy chair (train, plane, etc.) with your favorite magazine, not balancing a laptop trying to reading a shelter website.

Marie Claire Maison and Elle Deco/France

I already have a subscription to Living Etc., as well as Cdn House & Home (not in the same league!), and Elle/Deco UK has gone downhill with the latest editor -- don't much care for it, and only pick up the occasional issue.

Met Home was GREAT in the '80s and early '90s, but has hit the doldrums since... some good stuff once in a while, but I stopped picking it up regularly years ago.

Be warned about Cdn House and Home -- the long-time editor (since the start of the mag) quit in May, and is being replaced by Suzanne Dima (who had her own tv show and was editor of another Cdn shelter mag, and is an alumnus of Cdn H&H).

She is much more trendy and flashy than Cobi Ladner. The effect remains to be seen. Her issues are only coming out now on the newsstands -- it may be a different mag very soon.

I chose Real Simple, but in vein. It's published by Martha Stewart and OmniMedia won't ship to Europe. That was the great thing about Domino. A subscription was only $45 to Europe. Magazines tend to cost well over $100, but for some reason Domino was cheap.

Crapadoodle! I asked my husband for a Domino subscription as an xmas present (which must have been very spendy, because we live in Japan) and we were wondering why no issues had arrived yet. I'm not holding my breath for a refund, either, at this point. It would be only fair to offer me some other CN subscription but I doubt anyone will think of this.

I think I am with the other poster(s) who claim to be done with paper publications.

living etc., but it's too expensive!!!

Since i've started cutting back on my spending i've found lots of great free online magazines about design and interiors. My fave is http://www.largom.com as it has lots of great features on homes and modern design. i also love design sponge and dwell. Very sad about Domino

I subscribed to Domino but I have to say I won't be heartbroken when it goes out. It was okay for eye candy but there wasn't a enough for lot my modest budget lifestyle.
I probably will also not get enough subscription - I like to buy ad hoc if I see an issue that seems worth it.

As sad as it is...print is dead. Blogs can not recreate that excitement and escapism of flipping that page on a beach or while curled up on the couch, but they have the speed, content and low cost of production that makes the "book" obsolete.

In the same way most kids have never written on a chalk board (schools all use dry erase boards now...i was horrified to find out), soon the next generation will not read the printed page. I'm bummed about it, but it is inevitable.

World of Interiors is my pick. Not everyone lives in a castle in the country, but as far as inspiration goes...tops.

And the art direction of Gourmet is amazing. I don't cook a lot, but the way the stories are shot are impeccable.

-tyler
www.heirantiques.com

You guys should check out some Canadian content to fill the void. They are not as hip as Domino (our closest competitor was Wish mag but it folded in November), but worth looking into. The mags are Style at Home, Canadian House and Home, and Canadian Home and Country.

Just a general note about magazines and expense - I love magazines but they can definitely add up - especially since there are a couple of bucks more in Canada than the US. But I recently discovered that I can take most of my favourite mags out from my local library. I still buy now and then, and have a couple of subscriptions, but this gives me my fix.

And goodbye Domino! You will be missed...

Blogs for the most part leech off of print and dont really provide the same original content that an honest to god publication does. What blogs lack in content and originality and overall credibility they make up for with speed and glut. When the real content providers go under, what will be left for the blogs to repost ad nauseum?

Print is NOT dead and never will be. It's a silly idea to think it will ever be all digital (this coming from someone that bought an ebook reader)

Anyway, I cant find anything about ReadyMade going under? Anyone have a link to something substantial?

I was going to say Ready Made, but now I hear that may be going out too.
I already get Martha Stewart Living, which I might add--for those that were fed up with it the last year or so, the last two issues have been much better I thought.
Real Simple--never again! (a waste of paper)
Living Etc is just too expensive.
So, I might pick up House Beautiful from time to time for a flight, but I doubt I will subscribe.

yep, readymade is closing. sorry ya'll.

While I get a ton of info from blogs, I have to agree with Nesagwa. Magazine publishers were investing a ton in editorial, design and great photography--who will fill that role.
It looks like I'm the only Martha fan here, but I keep every single issue of MSL and just paid for a 2-year subscription (just hoping it doesn't go under). It has different content than Domino though and I liked getting both. Would love to subscribe to Living Etc. if I could afford it.

goofy perhaps. but i live in a 90 year old house. and i love this old house magazine. and it consistently has enough good content, projects, and ideas to make it worth a subscription.

I'll probably try to find/pick up Ideal Home (UK) more often. I like that they feature reader homes, and I have to say I've gotten just as many ideas from them as from Domino, etc. It seems harder to find though.

Living, etc. is great but I just go to the store each month to buy it. A subscription is too expensive. I really like all of the European magazines. The US Version of Elle Decor is so frilly and girly. The UK version is really hip and has interesting (different) interiors. It just stinks to spend the extra on the import magazines.

You can't relax in a hot bath without a magazine or book, print is not dead.

I will miss Domino. Living Etc. is good, but expensive to buy in the states. I am annoyed by the fact that the Domino website is still offering one and two year subscriptions. Sorry to my friends that I bought a subscription for as a Christmas gift.

I'm not going to subscribe to anything, because I find that I just end up saving the old issues and never returing to them. The only $$ i'm going to spend on print mags any more will be on artforum, and that's about it. I'm perfectly fine iwth going to the barnes and noble and reading mags there, it gets me out of the house, and maybe I'll spend more time at home reading books.

That said, I will miss Domino.

I was once at 9 shelter mags on subscription and I'm down to only one - Atomic Ranch - which I get an advertiser copy of every issue. I will be so sad if they go ... not only do I love the content, but they've done really well for my hobby side-biz. I kept up with LivingEtc. for about the first 6 or 7 years. (I started reading it from the first issue when I was living in London) and couldn't give up the habit when I moved back, although it cost much more, you didn't get all the freebies you get when you buy issues over there on the newsstand and also it tortured me that I couldn't buy the stuff featured over here. However, about a year ago I just got tired of magazines and let all of my subscriptions go. After saving years and years of favorite issues (all my Met Homes, LivingEtcs and Elle Decors, etc.) I actually just recycled them all a couple of weeks ago.

Oh, and I too got bummed by the Budget Living/Blueprint/Domino loop of closures. Perhaps that's why I started losing interest in my subscriptions ... the ones I loved most kept getting cancelled.

I like World of Interiors (or world of inferiors, as i feel like that looking at the unaffordable-unreachable things), as they're good for inspiration, and also British Country Living for some cool ideas. Living Etc and Aussie Vogue Living used to be better I think, but still good sometimes. I'm really sad that Domino is going - so many great mags have left and yet a bunch of lousy ones go on and on!

i agree. print will survive. there is nothing like flipping through a magazine for a pure escapist journey. online images are fine, but the color is off and the size is smaller. in the '90s fashion mags took me everywhere. i still get a good feeling from old photos...

I've gotten rid of all my magazines, and focus mainly on design blogs to be inspired. It's sad to see the magazines fold...but I suppose it's the end of an era for them. Many design ideas can be found on the internet now.

the only other one i like is marie claire maison - but it's too expensive. Anyone know a way to order it on the cheap?

So sad! Sniffle. I loooved Domino!!! RIP. My favorite part of the month was curling up with my Domino mag on the sofa and being inspired. And here I am buying my first house...and Domino won't be there to guide me. :(

I'm in LA - but I asked for a Style at Home Canada subscription for Xmas (it's a fabulous mag! It's $35 CDN to the US) and I just found a subscription to Canadian House and Home on Amazon.com for only $22 to the US! Yippee! A little sunshine to make up for a dark cloud...

I was waiting for my Domino subscription to run out so I could get one to Real Simple or ReadyMade, two magazines I always buy at the store when I can. I enjoyed Domino, it was cool...but a little too high end for me. A lot of the items in it were too expensive for us "real people" who would rather spend under $15 for a throw than $400. I liked it mostly for the decor ideas. But Real Simple has more practical, family oriented approach...and I love ReadyMade's DIY style.

(And ReadyMade is in the picture, but is not a survey choice...what's up with that?)

I don't know. I used to get Real Simple but got bored with it eventually because it seemed like they were recycling the same story ideas over and over (how many articles do I need to read about selecting cookware?) and there were too many ads. Not really interested in diving into that again. I've only flipped through Dwell, so maybe I'll have to check that out. I doubt I'm going to be paying for any new subscriptions anytime soon, though. I'm just curious which title they're going to subsitute for the remainder of my subscription term.

@insanity_pepper - i totally agree about real simple -- i used to have a subscription but really there's only so much one can say on the topic of organizing your life. now when i flip through it at the checkout stand, i feel like i've read it all before.

i did like blueprint & was sad to see it go. martha stewart living is too martha stewart-y (though i often pick it up at an airport newstand) & i sadly admit that readymade is too DIY for what i'd actually attempt to do.

i once loved dwell, but to be honest i realized one day that between the articles, photo spreads, and ads, it just made me wish i had a nicer house so i stopped reading it. i love the design, but didn't really feel like i could use it as much of an inspiration without jumping to a much higher tax bracket or leaving the bay area, neither of which seem likely.

MCH:

"I chose Real Simple, but in vein. It's published by Martha Stewart and OmniMedia won't ship to Europe. "

Huh? I used to subscribe to Real Simple, and live in Europe. Didn't have trouble getting my issues. (I cancelled because I get too many magazines, and it was the weakest). And I still get my Martha subscription every month, so yes, they *DO* ship to Europe!

And re WISH magazine, a Domino wanna-be -- that was the magazine that Suzanne Dimma was editor of, before she took the reins of Canadian House and Home (I think February is her first issue, but it may take a few more months before they lose Cobi's touch).

Nothing is like Domino. Domino is shopping for those of us who don't shop. It's a decorator friend in paper form. It is the best thing to take along on a short airplane trip, or to read in bed, or in the bath. I love the sticker flags. I am in mourning already on hearing that this wonderful magazine is going away. I keep my old issues, as tattered and water spotted as they are.

I, too have subscribed since it started. I think I am prepaid for a few years! Oh, sad, sad, sad.

Ratgrrl, I agree about Dwell. I loved it when it started, but now it's sort of a fan-zine for the wealthy and politically correct. And I gag reading about these people who say their homes are totally "green", when they are so often made of concrete (produced from strip-mined limestone and processed in one of the most polluting industrial processes in the nation) and steel (similar problem, although most steel is imported now), and they are vacation homes to boot!

I just looked at the Domino Website, and they are still promoting subscriptions. The link to subscribe for 10 issues is still active. And the previous AT post here said that March will be the final issue!

vogue living australia, world of interiors. but then, even country living is sometimes better than domino has been (with the exception of the delightful nick olsen - this man needs to start a blog!)

I have to say, I'm sad Domino is done, but lately I've been hooked on so many great blogs like AT and others that I don't think I'll miss it all that much. I'll get my insiration from here. Real people's homes are much cooler, original and interesting. It seems like most magazine homes are being staged to sell (many are), and it gets boring. So far, AT is NOT boring. Thanks for filling in the gap!

Living etc! if it was cheaper. Is there here a Living etc Usa edition?

I phoned Domino customer service to ask what will happen to my two-years-plus, pre-paid subscription. They said that the March issue (the last one) just went out, and that a letter should be attached to that offering a refund or the chance to move your subscription to another magazine in the group.

Check out ***"Canadian House & Home"*** February issue online:

http://www.houseandhome-digital.com/houseandhome/sample200902/

Real Living Australia

I am totally devastated. Domino was my fave shelter mag. I adored Blueprint, too. I am so depressed that I think I need to sit vigil or whatever.

For inspiration now.......Cote Sud, Marie Claire Maison, Marie Claire Idees, Vogue Living, and Maison du Maroc.

But nothing will be able to replace Domino for me. I used to have people carry it out to Marrakech for me and treasured it.