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Arts & Crafts Homes (1-year auto-renewal) |  | Publisher: Active Interest Media
Category: Magazine
List Price: $27.80
Buy New: $14.95
as of 9/9/2010 07:04 CDT details
You Save: $12.85 (46%)
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2072
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 4
Subscription Length: 1220000 Months
Issues Per Year: 4
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B002BFZ9PS
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Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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Product Description
Our mission is to offer expert advice and perspective for those building, renovating, or furnishing a home in the Arts and Crafts spirit. Offering hundreds of resources, we showcase the work not only of past masters, but also of those whose livelihoods are made in creating well-crafted homes, furnishings, and works of art today. Each issue is a portfolio of the best work in new construction, restoration, and interpretive design, presented through intelligent writing and beautiful photographs.
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 Great Resource for the 'Revival'! August 26, 2010
S. M. Kwandrans (Tyngsborough, MA USA)
'Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival' is a quarterly magazine targeted to readers and DIYers who like/love/adore the Arts & Crafts/Bungalow/Craftsman philosophy and esthetic in architecture and interior design. If you know the terms, you may have your own opinion about this magazine.
If you don't know these terms, do a quick search on 'Arts & Crafts,' 'Bungalow,' 'Craftsman,' William Morris, John Ruskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the California architects and brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene; that will give you an idea of the scope of design and the vitality of the esthetic.
I could rave for pages about the A&C/B/C esthetic, but I'm supposed to be writing about the magazine. It's wonderful if you want information or resources to restore or recreate any building, interior, furniture, and/or other objects that fit in the general subset of A&C/B/C. Articles about the restoration or remodeling of a Bungalow/Craftsman-style home usually include extensive resource lists (architect, contractor, cabinetry, windows, wallcoverings, and suppliers of hardware), complete with phone numbers and websites.
I've bought it on newsstands on and off, and splurged for my birthday with a subscription. Regarding order fullfillment, I received the first issue in the time frame on the order confirmation, but the magazine was unpackaged and creased in half, marring the cover and some of the interior pages. More than other magazines, photographs are an important part of "A&CHatR", and it's disappointing to receive a magazine with obvious flaws from shipping. It also was the Summer 2010 issue that I already have. The good thing is that I received the new issue, Fall 2010, the next day, meaning that I won't have shipping problems (just condition ones).
No, I'm not a DIYer yet, but my husband and I are still looking for a house or condo. I'm trying to convince him that A&C/B/C is the way to go--but I promised him Sherlock Holmes' parlour (fireplace, Persian slipper, mail on the fireplace mantel) for his steampunk/Victorian man cave! I always show him photos of furniture and floorplans of remodeled houses, hoping he'll catch my excitement!
 Arts & Crafts Homes Magazine March 23, 2010
AprilFool76 (Mentor, Ohio)
Just got my first copy, was fairly disappointed due to the large amount of advertising and small amount of content about Homes. What was pictured was beautiful. I will give it another chance but at this point would not recommend it for someone like myself who is looking for practical ideas to bring their home into the Arts and Craft style.
Buyers Beware! January 15, 2010
R. Rasmussen (Texas, United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was enthusiastic about subscribing to Arts & Crafts Homes magazine, as well as another home magazine (Old House Journal) at a reduced price through Amazon. It is clear to me at this point, however, that these prices are a device to get rid of back issues. Both magazines have filled half of my one year subscription with an initial mailing of back issues. I am NOT happy! I would have liked to have known what I was actually buying before purchasing these subscriptions.
 Magazine so-so, service awful! November 11, 2009
*Moonheart* (Arizona)
30 out of 36 found this review helpful
I ordered this magazine through Amazon in Sept., expecting my subscription to start in Oct./Nov.with the current Fall issue. On 10-07-09, I received the Fall issue and the two issues preceding it! Since I already had them, I called the number listed here and told them that I thought I was paying for the current issue and the ones following it. I was told the subscription included previous issues and I pointed out the listing does _not_ say that and that I already had them. I was finally told I would be credited for the two and would now get the three to follow the current issue they sent. When I tried to get an email confirming this, the first response said my order would include the previous issues again! A second claimed it was now taken care of but still no direct confirmation that my subscription is supposed to end up to/and including the Summer 2010 issue.
Be aware that Amazon's own magazine help page states that magazines you order are supposed to start with the current issue depending on the company's mailing cycle and when they get your order, _nowhere_ does it state they can send you _back issues_ to satisfy your subscription order. Per Amazon..."Once you've placed an order, it takes one to two weeks for your subscription to be received and scheduled by the publisher. Your subscription is then added to the publisher's next production cycle and shipped via standard mail. For example, if your monthly subscription was ordered and received by the publisher in November, and the December issue has already shipped, your order may be added to the January mailing."
I won't be ordering this magazine again after this subscription runs out. Aside from finding it to be mostly ads and not nearly as comprehensive as American Bungalow (or even Style 1900), the fact that the parent company tried to complete half my order with unsold back issues(that they were apparently trying to unload) and the poor customer service means to me that they are _not_ interested in keeping the business of new customers.
Have not recieved my first issue yet January 28, 2008
Catherine Salipante (Wellesley, MA)
0 out of 21 found this review helpful
I have not received my first issue yet. Hope it will be worth the wait.
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