
As part of our Best of 2008 polls, you
named Domino your favorite shelter magazine. I'm with you on the love there: Domino is always in the know about the latest trends and wows me with hip furnishings for every room in the house. This glossy really bridges the gap between fashion and interiors, and is chock full of affordable pieces and inspiring house tours.

This year we said goodbye to
Home,
O at Home, and
Cottage Living, and many of those shelter mags that aren't closing shop
are still teetering. With
shelter magazines folding left and right, this is a tough category, but there's still plenty of great content out there. So tell me, which is your fave?

Oprah Winfrey's shelter magazine, O at Home has folded,
according to a Hearst press release. The publication's content will be consolidated back into its flagship, The Oprah Magazine, under Editor in Chief Susan Reed. The last issue, Winter 2008, will hit newsstands Nov.

Domino is one of my favorite shelter magazines simply because it offers so much to so many people. From approachable DIY ideas to luxurious furniture options, the magazine manages to mix styles and budgets while always looking effortlessly chic. Continuing in that tradition, the magazine's new book,
Domino: The Book of Decorating: A Room-by-Room Guide to Creating a Home That Makes You Happy ($32) offers something for everyone.

I heart magazines. I heart and star and rainbow and unicorn them. Especially
shelter magazines.

Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. has announced that it will pull the plug on its struggling shelter magazine, Home, due to "sharp declines in the 'mid-market home sector',"
according to the Wall Street Journal. Home will join the ranks of fellow folded shelter titles, Conde Nast's
House & Garden and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's
Blueprint.

This living room belongs to the editor in chief of a popular shelter magazine. Can you name the magazine?

With a spare roll of decorative paper from
Paper Source, and a stale box of cereal taking up space in my pantry, I attempted a little
DIY project this weekend. You know how I love my
shelter magazines and
all of
my paper
projects. So I decided to make a magazine holder out of my cereal box, which would have otherwise made its way to the trash bin.
According to Women's Wear Daily, sources close to Condé Nast say that the company may acquire San Francisco-based shelter/architecture magazine, Dwell. Although Dwell's publisher and president, Michela O'Connor Abrams, told WWD, "I have not been involved in any discussions with Condé Nast," and a spokesperson for Condé Nast declined to comment, it is well known that Condé Nast chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr.

Casa's local paper, the
SF Chronicle, just
reported on the recent pruning of the once-flourishing shelter magazine market. With the losses of
House and Garden and
Blueprint, some readers are definitely in mourning (if the numerous comments on our posts were any indication). The Chronicle article points out several possible factors for the folding of the mags, including the housing crisis and the rising preference for DIY design.