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HIGH END...HARD TO GET INTO
I subscribed to this magazine based on these Amazon reviews. Fortunately, I did not have to pay for the subscription--I used credit card or mileage points, something like that. First, I don't find the magazine compelling. It just does not grab me. When it arrives in the mail, I quickly flip through it and there is absolutely nothing I see that I want to go back to. The products are very high end, the photos lacking warmth. I don't find the magazine, photos or ideas inviting. The word that comes to me is cold. I am a lover of great decorating magazines and books. I like to try to copy ideas from photos to use in my own home. Dwell does not inspire me to do that. Maybe I am just not sophisticated enough of a home decorator for this magazine, but I just can't warm up to it. If I could sum it up quickly, I would call it high-end urban chic and trendy.

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Great for some, but not what I hoped for
I have been receiving Dwell now for about 8 months. I subscribed to this magazine in the hopes of finding a good, broad source for modern home design that is cost-effective, and isn't snobbish in its approach. In some ways I suppose this magazine fulfills that goal. However, I will echo a bit of what each of "E. Paletta" and "Day-Dreamer" said in their reviews below. From an architectural standpoint, Dwell focuses almost exclusively on prefab housing and definitely has a slant toward "green" design . . . to the exclusion of all else. Now, I am all for green building techniques, but it seems that most of what Dwell features follows the stark, glass-metal-and-concrete mentality of design. I certainly like that in moderation, but I want more (i.e., design that is modern and uncluttered, but also warm, liveable, and texturally rich) and this periodical doesn't deliver that, in my opinion. Dwell may be exactly what some strict modernists are looking for, but it's not what I hoped for.

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It's a thin line between love and hate..........
As a design/builder in the Bay area, there are certain parts of this magazine I love. But some of the work is so painfully stark, I can't even stand it. And I love simplicity in design. <
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>And I don't know if any other of you kind people have noticed this.........but the other part that bugs me. Is that the magazine obviously has a 'green'/sustainable bent to it, which I like and support. And they have a nice little article about the Toyota Prius, and then have the audacity to take on an advertisment in the same issue for some 6,000lbs./10mpg SUV, a GMC Yukon I think. Don't talk out both sides of your mouth DWELL people, you undermine your credibility!!