The Stats
Title: Style at Home, September Issue
Cover Price: $5.50 CDN + tax
Availability: Bookstore chains and magazine shops
Frequency: 12 times a year
The Review
I know we all know of Style at Home, but I think most of us kinda love it too… While you won’t see extreme design from around the globe, ultra modern dwellings by Scandinavian city planners or the inside of a French Chateau, you will get a lot of cheerful and practical tips for sprucing up your some-where-in-the-vast-middle North American existence. And tips is exactly why I pick this particular issue - September – of Style at Home: there is an overabundance of good take-home tips on everything form office nooks, to kids bedrooms to book shelves, and my personal passion, kitchens.
There are 50 – yes 50 – budget-friendly tips to help you fix up your kitchen, and not one that simply requires new hardware. I’m talking great before-and-afters of ‘80s peach travesties and the unfortunate clinical-white-tile “makeovers”. My personal fave are ideas on how to cover up an ugly backsplash. Aside from the kitchen rundown, I love a little of Style at Home’s “High and Low”, in which every issue they stage two rooms – a kids room in this issue – that are virtually identical, save for their decor budgets – one took mucho dinero, while the other, not.
Final Analysis
You’ll probably like it if:
- You have an ‘80s kitchen you’re looking to reprimand
- You’ve contemporary but fairly classic style tendencies
- You like the colour green – which is all the rage this season, and this issue makes it no secret.
You may not like it if:
- You’re looking for the absolute latest in cutting-edge kitchen design
- You live in a tiny condo with strict rules about what you can and cannot change (most of the kitchens are fairly spacious and take some liberties)
- You don’t like the colour green
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