Amazon.com Customer Reviews
Great Magazine... If you make $1 million a year! - Review written on July 13, 2008
Rating: 3 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.
My wife got this magazine subscription as a comp, and each month we both laugh at the ridiculously expensive stuff that is showcased (Like the $50,000 matress, the $35,000 Kitchen cart/organizer, the $3,500 "junk mail" trash bin or the $30,000 Kitchen sink)
That being said, this is a really nice Magazine, if you have wads of cash lying around unused.
not your mom's "home and garden" crap - Review written on April 12, 2008
Rating: 5 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.
I am a 20 something, and not rich or upper middle class at all. so the people who think that this magazine is for ultra rich, green, eco lovers, are wrong or read the wrong issues. The editors have been on a greek kick lately, but I see most of the articles (gardening, cooking, and etiquette)as informative, creative, and inspiring. Especially "the adventuress". Domino's great for looking through, then finding your own deals on similar items. in every issue there are DIY projects, as well as articles about presigious designers who are up and coming. Overall I think well rounded, and a great alternative to tradional home, and architectural digest (both of which I love and subscribe to as well). I get so tired of all the same stuff out there that seem to be for established home owners who use "house beautiful" and "home and garden" as their bible. Domino sites many resourses on their site as well as the magazine to find similar items to shown, or exact items shown. most come from catalog sites such as west elm, anthropologie and the like. neither of which I think are exclusive to rich people only. give it a try at $10 per year how can you go wrong?
my favorite magazine. period. - Review written on April 24, 2007
Rating: 5 out of 5
14 customers found this review helpful, 3 did not.
Not only does domino have the most excellent design ideas for the home, but it also contains great recipes and clothing ideas. I love how each month the editor spotlights an interesting but sometimes forgotten period in design, such as the Biba era, or using nautical elements in dress and in home decoration (not in the trashy stuffed singing fish way). As for those who say that Domino's ideas are much to expensive, I urge them to go anywhere other than america's largest discount store and be amazed, because good things cost money, but in Domino's case, I personally do not think the elements presented are out of my budget range, and I'm a college student. Besides, design magazines are for inspiration not imitation, so just based on that alone, Domino far exceeds its peers and is simply the best home design/living magazine out there.
Domino is delightful! - Review written on July 25, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.
An early review of Domino described it as "style-generous," a term I repeat here beacause it is an apt description. The magazine is hip without being snobby, informative without being condescending, and creative without being too outlandish. Domino addresses design, entertaining, art, cooking, fashion, and culture in a fun, accessible way.
Domino is full of color and inspiration. People of all tastes and budgets can attain the style contained within. (I'm a poor student and I often use ideas from it.)
Although it arrives late in my mailbox every month, I look forward to Domino more than any other magazine. I page through it several times the day it arrives and then often page through back issues (I own every one since the beginning), wishing the magazine came out even more frequently.
Fresh as a daisy, this is NOT your mother's home magazine! - Review written on March 05, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 5
33 customers found this review helpful, 4 did not.
In a market positively glutted with "shelter" magazines which are little more than glossy, sometimes feeble, ad-filled clones of already successful titles, Domino is a breath of truly fresh air.
Sure, it's going to have a lot of cutting edge stuff in it that won't fly in the average suburban home, much less a traditional home in the country. But Domino is about ideas, inventiveness, and thinking outside the box. No -- that doesn't mean it's always necessarily sterile and "modern".
It's about looking at color, line, shape and design in a new way. If you step outside the genre you have always loved but grown a bit bored with, you might find it revitalized by the right injection of something new, something borrowed, something cerulean blue ...
Domino deconstructs the "fashion" of interiors, without dumbing it down. It's like a casual, non-hipster, insider elbow-to-elbow look at the real fun (and honest work) of creating livable, lovable spaces.
If you want the tried and the true, Domino is definitely not for you. If you want to have your eyes opened to something you might like, though you had never considered it before, give Domino a whirl.
Gotta love those "Domino deals"! - Review written on November 20, 2005
Rating: 5 out of 5
64 customers found this review helpful, 19 did not.
First, I must address the idiots have never ordered a magazine before. Regardless of which magazines you order, it'll be at least six weeks before you get your first one. This of course means you'll miss at least one issue while waiting for the subscription to kick in. Amazon.com clearly explains why this is. Read the FAQ. Yes, you will be buying from the newsstand before you see your first one. Geez.
Now, as to the magazine, I love it. It's not "hoity toity", the people they profile are very down-to-earth; my favorite was Iona Skye and her very accessible living style that looked very much like my own.
I love the pull-out "Domino deals" in the back. There was a good deal on a Sony turntable (through Amazon.com!) in the last issue; only Domino readers get the discount!
Also good are the Domino cheat sheets, where you pull out the perforated cards and put them in your binder or filofax for later reference. They have information on three of the best Front-loading washing machine deals or mail-order turkeys, for example, and reference an article in the magazine.
The magazines are surprisingly timely. In the November issue there was information on how to help the Katrina victims: how to give to a fund that provides basic furnishings, how to donate studio space for displaced artists, how to donate unwanted (but not too old) cell phones so people could reconnect. Magazines and their stories are usually planned sometimes six months in advance, so I was surprised to see a reference to something that happened in very late August appear so soon.
The magazine does give you a lot to look at, though, and can appear cluttered and disorganized. However, I do like the captions that look like handwriting even with the curved arrow to point things out.
What immediately caught my eye was the very first issue in which there was an article on buying a weekend house while still retaining your city apartment, which is what I've always wanted to do. It was purely a case of "you had me at 'hello'".
Domino is readily available at your larger consumer home-supply stores (such as the one with the orange sign), as well as your usual places like Borders. I suggest going to either one of these places and browsing it to see if this is your style before investing in a subscription.
Wait till the kinks are smoothed out... - Review written on October 29, 2005
Rating: 2 out of 5
20 customers found this review helpful, 7 did not.
As an ad exec who spends a lot of time following advertising and media for a living, I was extremely excited for this publication to come out! It seemed like a fresh, younger approach to decorating that would be more condusive to us urban dwellers who often don't have a ton of space to work with and want fresh, contemporary designs that are still livable. So far, I have enjoyed the magazines so far. I think my biggest complaint is that a shopping guide for your home is a little more difficult than a shopping guide for clothing. I feel like it's inherently easier (at least for me) to pair dress pants and a sweater than it is to decorate a whole room. While I understand the point is not to teach me design principles, but to showcase different things I can buy for my home, I wish a bit of this was mixed in. Because lets face it, many of us can't afford to buy the whole room on the page. Overall though, I've enjoyed the content and have gotten a few great ideas from the features.
My biggest complain isn't actually about the magazine itself, but the amount of time it takes me to get my issues!! Twice I've seen issues appear on the newstands before I got them at home, which is odd since I subscribe to many magazines and have never experienced this with any others! I was also very disapointed that soon after I subscribed they offered new subscribers a "bonus gift" for subscribing. While I understand companies and publications often rotate promotions, I found it a slap in the face to the magazine's earliest adopters that we were not offered anything despite the fact that we purchased in good faith having seen only one issue!
I think Domino has the potential to be a great magazine, but they have a lot of kinks to work out before it can be a top home title.