Country Home (magazine)

Last updated
Country Home
FrequencyQuarterly
Founded1984 (1984)
Final issueCurrently published
Company Meredith Corporation
Country United States
Based in Des Moines, Iowa
LanguageEnglish
ISSN 0737-3740

Country Home is a country lifestyle magazine, published by Meredith Corporation. The magazine features decorating and collecting, food and entertaining, fashion and well-being, travel and shopping. Country Home provides ideas and inspiration for readers who live a country lifestyle, or aspire to create one, in city lofts, farmhouses, suburban colonials, getaway cottages. Country Home, which was launched in 1984, was published 10 times a year [1] and each issue has over 8.3 million readers. LuAnn Brandsen and Carol Sheehan served as the editors-in-chief of the magazine. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "Brandsen Named Editor-in-Chief of Country Home Magazine". Meredith Corporation. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  1. ^ Country Home mission statement, 2006
  2. ^ Fall 2006 Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI) statistics