• Dutch magazine, vt wonen. I admit to spending way too long lurking through their back issues. Didn't understand more than a few words in a sentence, but a treat nonetheless, their stylists and home choices are fantastic.
• The ever reliably awesome Swedish favorite, Skona Hem.
• Swoon-inducing Spanish Magazine, Nuevo Estilo.
• Australia's Inside Out Magazine. Great, approachable design with a no language barrier perk.
• Eclectic French e-magazine, E-mag Deco.
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Images: 1: vt wonen, 2: skona hem, 3: Nuevo Estilo, 4: Inside Out, 5: e-mag DECO






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How about the Canadian one, House and Home? I have liked what I have seen of that a lot.
i subscribe to another home-grown (in Canada) magazine that i adore:
Style at Home
At the moment, Living Etc. and Skona Hem.
I recently sprang for a US subscription to LivingEtc - worth every cent. LOVE it.
Vogue Living Australia and Belle (also Aussie) - hands down two of the best on the planet.
I'm a fan of Living Etc. I appreciate the links to the other international magazines.
Living Etc...
Canada's Style at Home. Love It!
Dutch Elle Decor (Elle Wonen); very modern
2nd vote for Style at Home.
Vogue Living Australia - totally agree.
I always enjoy Real Living here in Australia for realistic, achievable looks and Vogue Living Australia for daydreaming.
i love, love, love australian real living. to me it has the same feel as domino. i might actually like it better!
it is followed by living etc. and i do pick up both elle decoration uk and vogue living australia. i would love to try some scandinavian magazines though. but with the above titles (plus 3 us titles) my magazine budget is already maxed out.
House & Garden UK. Almost like the real thing.
http://www.insideout.com.au/
I like this one too
Living etc.
Real Living, Inside Out, Vogue Australia, Belle - hey wait, they're all Australian...! I read UK magazines when I'm feeling homesick, but not the pompous ones.
LivingEtc. I buy them every time I'm in the UK, also when friends and family come over for visits, I ask them to bring whatever copy is on the news stands.
Living Etc & UK Elle Decoration though its not as strong. Must check out Vogue Living Australia...
"Vogue Living Australia and Belle (also Aussie) - hands down two of the best on the planet."
I agree. I go to the Library to see if a particular issue is worth spending money on and almost always yes, but I don't buy magazines like I use to.
Wallpaper.
Living Etc, Canadian House & Home, Belle, Inside Out, Homes & Gardens UK, ELLE Decoration UK, Vogue Living Aus. Sometimes Homes & Gardens Uk. The White Book UK when I can find it. Needless to say, I spend quite a lot on magazines since I buy & keep every issue. My B&N membership is worth every dime.
Elle decoration and Arts et Decoration
Domus (Italian w/ English)
H.O.M.E. (German)
Casa Viva (Spain)
Japan: SUMU (natural living, home design)
Ku:nel (home and garden)
Elle Decor Japan
(Available by subscription through Kinokuniya in NY, Seattle, WA; and SF/LA CA.)
Vogue Living Australia is gorgeous. But I also love Elle Decor UK.
The Scandinavian mags look great, but I couldn't possibly subscribe to anything I couldn't read a word of. French is about as far as I'd go right now, and if I subscribed it'd be as a personal challenge to brush up on the language.
Because I'm cheap, I currently subscribe only to Canadian House and Home (which is excellent!) and purchase Living, Etc at the store when I'm feeling extravagant.
Another for Living Etc. Also love looking at Habitania when I am in Portugal.
South African Magazine: House & Leisure. The best!
And the South African Elle Decor is very good too.
Abitare.
www.bvd.co.il - a picture is worth a thousand words.
Vogue Living Australia
ELLE Decoration UK
I do love Living Etc., although it's so frustrating that anything in the resources I'm interested in must come from overseas.
I loooove everything I've seen on AT from Skona Hem, but the US subscription price - oh, the subscription price! {cries softly}
after buying them on several trips i got a subscription to INSIDE OUT and Real Living (my favorite) for some time now.
both of them represent the relaxed australian lifestyle in an excellent way.
i'm also reading Living etc. but i think i'm done with it.
interior magazines here in Germany aren't that interesting. it often looks like they're trying to hard. but that's just my opinion.
Love love love Elle Deco South Africa! Has the best edit of other ED international coverage - plus great local design, which is often relatively inexpensive while no less ingenious than Elle Deco designers in the US and UK. Only a quarterly, but they have a great blog at elledecoration.co.za edited by designer Heather Moore.
Also, Elle Deco UK, Living Etc, and the Japanese ones I get (um, flip through, as they are so pricey) at Kinokuniya in Midtown.
For a guy living in Spain like me, the best spanish mag is not Nuevo Estilo, is the spanish AD.
I subscribe to both CDN House and Home and Style at Home. Generally I like both of them very much.
Schöner Wohnen / Germany
Living at Home / Germany
what i love about living etc. is that because homes in the UK tend to be so much smaller than in the US, their design layouts and storage solutions are fantastic for those of us in smaller dwellings.
i don't know if it counts, but my husband and i are both hooked on olive--more of a cookery thing, but some great design ideas, too.
I'm too lazy for magazines.
Instead I keep up with the Swedish interior design and real estate website Alvhem Makleri & Interior: http://alvhemmakleri.se
VT Wonen
101 Woonideeën
Elle Wonen
(all Dutch)
Frame magazine
Dosfamily (which is a blog not a mag) (Swedish)
Bloesem Kids(online )
The Selby
I also vote for the following:
**Style at Home** AND
**Canadian House & Home**...
then again these amazing shelter magazines aren't "foreign" to me, being a blessed crazy cool Canuck and all... ;)
I side with the Canadian magazines: very simply, they have the best shelter design selection. Canadians innately know style. Maybe it's the remarkable landscapes and inspiring seasons, who knows, but they got it.
World of Interiors -hands down.
I adore Canadian House&Home! (I subscribe to the digital online version)
Bo Bedre (Denmark) www.bobedre.dk
BoligMagasinet (Denmark) www.boligmagasinet.dk
Habitania (Spain)
What about good domestic ones?
I love looking through Marie Claire Maison at Borders, but they will probably stop carrying them and I'm half considering a subscription.
I also like many of Japanese book-azine publications because many center on smaller spaces and the copious photos make me feel like I'm probably not missing too much by not being able to read the text. There's actually an AT blogger that reports from "asia" and I can often take a printouts of the covers in her articles and have Kinokunia staff find or order them for me :)
Living etc is available at Zinio, 20 GBP.
Milk Magazine (www.milkmagazine.net) is a French children's clothing magazine but every issue has 1-3 maisons or appart or work studios that are lovely to look at again and again. I save every issue. Also great resource for kids clothing , furniture and toys - all with the European sensibility.
Living Etc, and Vogue Living Australia
Have always found World of Interiors inspiring. Subscription has lapsed at various times, but I keep going back to it.
I like House & Home, but I'm Canadian so that's local for me.
I suggest this Japanese mag called "I'm home". It's bilingual. http://www.imhome-style.com/index.html
I splurge on Living Etc.
Also being Canadian, Style at Home isn't exactly a foreign mag but it gets my vote. Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions of mags I haven't come across yet - can't wait to check them out!
Living Etc.
fresh home, Domino (when it was around), and Ready Made!
I want more of all of them though!
living etc
inside out magazine
Jeu de paumes japanese home books (books but almost like magazines there are so many in the series)
Come Home! Japanese magazine
Marie claire maison
Cote Maison: cote sud, cote ouest, etc.
Living Etc
I also like Frame. It is geared toward retail, visual merchandising and installation art but I have gotten some ideas for the home.
My absolute favourites:
RUM http://www.rumid.dk/
Boligliv http://www.boligliv.dk/
Boligmagasinet http://boligmagasinet.dk/
They are all danish magazines and of course in danish so here's a little help with the vocabulary:
House/living accomodations=bolig
Kitchen=køkken
Bathroom=bad/badeværelse
Livingroom=stue
Bedroom=soveværelse
Childrens room=børneværelse
room=værelse/rum
Lighting=belysning
I haven't really tried using Google Translate but since the magazines all have websites it's worth a try.
Otherwise here's what I tell my foreign friends when it comes to learning my language: when you are starting out learning a new language pretend what you read is written by someone who's dyslexic then you won't focus so much on getting every detail right because you know it won't make sense to you if you do but instead just try and understand the general idea. It will leave you so much less frustrated. Before anyone goes all mad with political correctness there's is also some science to this - it turns out that we don't actually read the entire word but just skim it. You can jumble the letters of a word as long as the first and last letter stays in place. Try and read this: Acocdrnig to a reschearer at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
Top Tip: I would buy myself poor if I tried to satisfy my lust for magazines so here's an amazing website where the magazines are for free!! Yes that's right! It can be overwhelming at first but with a little patience you can find some great magazines there:
www.issuu.com
The site has publication on vitually every subject so there's a lot to look through. I have been browsing the site and have a blogpost on it with links to some of the magazines I thought was really good. The post is in danish but scroll down and look at the pretty blue links for you free reading pleasure.
I adore Living Etc. from the UK. I dream of living in the home department at Selfridges, and each month, receiving my copy in the mail is one of my favorite little escapes.