The Indie Home Magazines You Should Be Reading

The shelter category these days is so much more than Elle Décor and Architectural Digest—or even Dwell and Surface. Readers today are looking for more than some hyper-modernist building in Sao Paolo or the latest TV celeb’s Hollywood Hills home; they may want to know how a struggling photographer turns her 300 square foot studio apartment into a gallery-like showcase for her personal objects, or what newfangled architectural ideas are capturing the zeitgeist (even if they’re never built). With out-of-the-box formats, fonts, and treatments (fabric-bound issues, anyone?), the next generation of home magazines speak to the modern individual’s interest in design. Here, the five niche shelter magazines try and find next time you’re at the newsstand.

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