HGTV Magazine
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'It\'s crazy to get this high quality magazine for only $5! Take advantage! If you\'re worried about auto-renewal issues, see my tried and true fix below. This is my second year of HGTV magazine, and it has yet to disappoint. It\'s jam packed with home redecorating ideas specific to the season. My absolute favorite part of this magazine is the "fun decorating" page in issue that shows expensive items and their cheaper alternative. (For example - a high end rug with a similar looking rug at over half the cost.) There\'s great advice on choosing paint colors for different rooms and how-to lessons on the correct way to refinish and paint furniture. I love the "spot the difference" advice as well - learning the differences between various furniture and home goods so you\'re on your A-game in any conversation. Also included is a great recipe in each edition. I\'ve clipped many of these and they\'ve turned out to be easy and delicious! Pretty much anything you can think of that has to do with your home is included in this magazine. If nothing else, it makes for a colorful and festive bathroom book that anyone can flip through and enjoy. My 12-year old daughter loves it for their crafts, cooking, and how-to advice. I love it as a cheap way to get ideas to spruce up my home. There aren\'t too many advertisements or wasted space either.\n\nI haven\'t had any problems with unwanted auto-renewal of my magazines on Amazon as long as I follow these steps to turn it off:\n1) Go to your account and look under Membership and Subscriptions.\n2) Find "Print Magazines."\n3) Once selected, you will see all of your current magazine subscriptions and when they will be renewed at the lowest Amazon price.\n4) Simply turn off the "auto-renewal" setting by selecting auto-renewal settings and "turn off."\n\nI\'ve been subscribed to all of my magazines from Amazon for over 2 years now and have never had a payment request from the magazine company or a continuation of magazines arriving when I said I didn\'t want them to. It\'s easy and worry free.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "This magazine will Auto renew two months before you're subscription runs out. It is very difficult if not impossible to cancel this and they don't give you prior notice. It renews at four times the price you paid originally."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "The vast majority of articles in this magazine designed to plug things to buy. You'll notice every article is made up of one main photo of a room, followed by numerous pics of the things in it with where to buy them. Apparently, they're also sponsored by Sherwin Williams because the majority of photos also highlight their paints, and again plug them to buy. Would really prefer a magazine that was more about DIY and less about selling a load of products on each and every page. I won't be renewing this subscription."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "This magazine was much better when it first came out, with lots of variety and new ideas. Now it's mostly about paint colors and painting beautiful old pieces of furniture in bright colors. Really, it's like a contest in how shocking your color choice can be. So many advertisements, for paint products and more overpriced things people don't need. The one thing that's interesting is to see how much money some people spend even when they think they're saving money, in The High/Low List (why spend $399 for a log side table when you can get one for $99?) Maybe I just don't get it."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Is this magazine sponsored by the paint industry? Every article, it seems anyway, is about painting your furniture some gawd-awful color. Or painting your walls and ceiling some "new" bright color that is supposed to change your life. This mag is fine for about a half-hour\'s worth of paging through. I end up taking it to the office for our waiting room. I have yet to use any ideas from it.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Love the magazine but the problem is that it arrives well past the time the issue is on the news stands. In the past with magazine subscriptions, the issues arrived well before they appeared on news stands.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "As an avid HGTV and DIY fan, when the magazine was offered for pre-sale, I jumped! And have continued to subscribe every year!\nFirst, I'd like to address a few of the complaints, such as the amount of Advertising and apparent product push in the articles. This is business today, with the competition of the internet, newspapers and magazines rely heavily on the sponsors. It's a fact of our lives now.\nSecond, not every magazine will have all the answers. If the colorful, paint project filled, the cool high-lows aren't for you, I'm sure that out of the hundreds of design books, etc., you will find something!\n\nAs for me and my friends? We love to read it cover to cover! I enjoy the WOW! What color is That?? It's what helped me decide to go deep blue on our family room wall. I like the chandelier in the cage lights, and read a few articles about taking this and use part to make it work for you. That became sconces! I have a rare eye thing, so need a dim room; again HGTV magazine talked about recessed lighting! These are all just a few examples of how this magazine has impacted our home and life!\nI Love Color!! Bright, clear, fresh color, with clean white and pure black! In an *ecletic glam* style and I always find a delicious nugget in each HGTV MAGAZINE that speaks to me!!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "Really disappointed in such an expensive magazine. Tons of ads and not really much of anything that you wouldn't see in Better Homes and Gardens. I thought it would be MORE like the network with lots of ideas and before's and after's. Nope. I could do without it that's for sure."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Most home magazines are only about the pretty pictures, but HGTV is full of content you can actually use. (AND pretty pictures!) I’ve been a subscriber for years and also gifted a subscription to a family member who enjoyed it too. The one caveat is that the regular price is higher than comparable titles, but if you hold out and keep your eyes open, they have frequent discounts.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'My mother & I had many times jointly reading HGTV magazine. I had purchased one before my trip to the nursing home to see her. To my surprise she was having a fantastic day…awake, alert, feeding herself & eating everything on her tray. It was a great visit.\nAfter that visit I ordered this magazine for her & a golf magazine for my father. This magazine arrived a few days ago. Really great speed since I ordered it, but my mother died July 11.\nI haven’t looked at the magazine yet. It’s sitting right beside me.\nI will enjoy the magazine….even if my Mom didn’t get the chance. It really is a great magazine if you watch HGTV and their type of content'}]