Subscription Length:1 year Product Description Relax at home with your must-have magazine for seaside-inspired living! Every issue of Coastal Living delivers beautiful photos of beaches around the world, destination guides to the editors’ favorite island resorts and can’t miss coastal towns, travel tips for your next getaway, and dozens of decorating ideas inspired by the color palettes of ocean escapes near and far. Claim your copies today! .com Review Who Reads Coastal Living? Coastal Living captures the timeless romance of life by the sea. It gives readers the relaxed feeling and sense of renewal that you can get only at the beach. By providing the escape route, Coastal Living helps break the routine of everyday life. Its readers are young adventurers, savvy travelers, creative homeowners, everyday gourmets, aspiring beach dwellers, affluent boomers, and coastal connoisseurs. What You Can Expect in Each Issue: CURRENTS: Each issue opens with an "I want to be there" beach image along with a Top 10 List. The section continues with 1- or 2-page articles of decorating ideas, products, shops, and beach beauty. One of the new favorite columns is "What's in Your Beach Bag?" where a famous, semi-famous, or quirky beach personality tells us his/her must-haves for a day at the shore. HAVENS is the homes and gardens section, featuring aspirational and practical ideas for beach-chic decor, design, architecture, and landscape. Columns include Signature Style, Shack to Chic, Natural Beauty, ECO-tecture, Seaside Style, and Creative Outlet. The R&R section is a resource for anyone who's beach bound, and a voyeuristic escape for everyone else. With columns such as Hideaways, Waterfront Weekend, Dive In, and ECO-trip, Coastal Living provides readers with a variety of vacation options, from relaxing spa vacations to environmental adventures to family-friendly resorts. COASTAL KITCHEN gives readers ideas and inspiration for weeknight seafood suppers, casual get-togethers, and the lowdown on coastal cuisine—including restaurants and chefs from all U.S. shores and the Caribbean. Columns include Fresh Catch, Local Flavor, Dinner in a Breeze, and Toast of the Coast. Feature Articles: Features showcase the best of Coastal Living, including all of the content pillars. Recent examples include an artist cottage in Key West, Florida; a coastal community in Northern California built in the '70s that was 'green' before green became mainstream; the annual Best Seafood Dives roundup—a guide to the best in local casual fare on all coasts. The Marshall garden in Maine proved that if you can grow gorgeous flowers on these rocky shores you can grow them anywhere, and the Upcountry Maui story provided a glimpse of the island that only locals know about: the lavender fields, flower farms, goat farms, and volcanoes off the beaten track. We get decorating advice from a Florida surfer with great style and a hip, laid-back vibe , and readers learn how to throw a summer supper—lobster for 4 or 40—with all the tabletop accessories, wine recommendations, how-tos, and side dishes included. Magazine Layout: Amazing photography is the driver: The coast, in all its glory, is the star. But Coastal Living doesn’t shy away from providing readers ideas, tips, how-tos, break-outs, and other service-style elements to give them all the information they need to live the lifestyle. The clean, uncluttered design organizes all the helpful information and makes reading our magazine a pleasurable experience. The editors want their pages to provide an everyday escape to the beach. Click on any image below to see select pages from Coastal Living: Contributors: Coastal Living works with the country's best photographers, writers, stylists, and producers. Most of the scouts live in waterfront communities on the East, West, and Gulf coasts. Coastal Living chooses contributors who share its sense of relaxed style, passion for adventure, love of entertaining, and environmental stewardship. Past Issues: Comparisons to Other Magazines: Coastal Living provides readers with a stronger, more balanced variety than they get with the competition. The Coastal Living reader gets high-end but practical decorating ideas and products to get the look of a casual beach style—more specific and in-depth than a typical homes magazine. The travel pages give 'where to go' and 'what to do' details—everything a beach vacationer needs to know without all the extraneous information travel magazines tend to provide. For healthy weeknight menus and casual entertaining, at home or on vacation, it gives readers recipes, menu ideas, drinks, how-tos, and shopping guides—specially tailored for seafood or beachy fare. Advertisers: Coastal Living advertisers span a variety of categories, from travel to real estate, home products, automotive, food/beverage, health/beauty, pharmaceutical, and more. Advertisers may run national or regional ads in a variety of sizes. Ad pages make up approximately 50% of the magazine. Awards: Freelance photographer John Sylvester has been awarded second place in the 2009 Northern Lights Awards For Excellence in Travel Journalism and Photography. His photography illustrating the feature story “Of Ice and Men,” about Newfoundland’s northern peninsula, appeared in the June 2008 issue of Coastal Living. 2008 Printing Industry Association of the South Graphic Awards: Award of Excellence for Coastal Living July/August 2007 in the “Magazines/Periodicals 4 or More Colors” category 2007 Printing Industry of America, Inc. Certificate of Merit: The Premier Print Awards Certificate Print Awards Certificate of Merit for Coastal Living May 2007 in the “Magazines” category 2007 Folio: Magazine Eddie Award: Gold Winner Shelter/Home-March 2007
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Be careful! They renew you automatically and charge your ...
Be careful! They renew you automatically and charge your card through amazon for a forty dollar a year subscription aftervtrial period is over !
Y**.
Paid for 24 issues. Received only one. Was switched to a different product!
After sending me one issue of my 2-year subscription, Meredith Publishing switched me over to a different magazine stating they no longer publish Coastal Living. I'm sure they knew this when I subscribed - one issue ago. The Amazon Customer Service number listed 866-384-0564 is not in service. I do not want Amazon or their commercial partner, Meredith Corporation, to switch my personal selection to a different product of their choosing and just keep my money.
D**S
My FAVORITE magazine!
First of all, my old subscription was transferred to Country Living and I was so disappointed because I thought Coastal Living was stopping publication completely. I was wrong, thankfully. They are publishing 4 (four) times a year now and it is definitely worth the wait. The paper that they have chosen for the new magazine has a heavier hand and is not the average slick paper that all other magazines use. This paper is thick, soft to the touch and is attractive to flip through.The images are stunning and the quality of the content is stellar. I have always loved my Coastal Living subscriptions and I will continue to subscribe.
B**E
Mini-Vacation in a Magazine
Love it. I've never lived along a coast, and chances are extremely good that I won't have that opportunity in this lifetime. So reading each issue is like taking a mini-vacation, and imaging I'm there. I love the colors of nature and the traditional colors used in coastal decor - pinks, corals, turquoise, sand, cream/white, tropical greens, the blues of water - and so I also enjoy the decorating ideas for creating a coastal oasis at home. Also included are things to see, good food, and often a home or room makeover (I've only received a few issues so far, so I'm not sure if it's a monthly thing). Various coastal lifestyles are covered, including New England, Outer Banks, Florida, and Hawaii. It's lovely to page through each issue and daydream.
M**R
A few good ideas and photos but text is simplistic (and full of errors)
Every issue has at least one article of interest. But Coastal Living definitely needs a fact checker... A recent issue referred to the Everglades as an old Hemingway haunt (that was the Florida Keys and Cuba editors!) and recommended high heels for going out in Cartagena (don't they know the streets are uneven colonial cobblestone??).
D**T
Never even got the magazine
This subscription was a nightmare from the start: when it hadn’t arrived after 4 months I started to inquire.I got multiple stories over the next few weeks from, you need to pay more to it isn’t supposed to start until next year, and the number of issues was in dispute. I thought I had successfully terminated the deal when now 18 months later I get a notice that it is being renewed. I was so disgusted that I don’t remember if I even got a refund. I strongly recommend NOT DEALING with Meridith publishing.
M**I
Coastal travel, not Living - skip this magazine
This magazine should be called Coastal Visitor. It's all about travel to the coast. Nothing whatsoever about residing there.I would like to see articles on ways to enjoy the different types of coast in in the US, the wide range of coastal decor styles, reviews of products that one may need or want when near the coast. I could do a better job publishing this magazine myself.I had high hopes but this magazine was a huge waste of paper and potential.
M**W
Same article ran two years apart - otherwise, a beautiful beach-themed treat
I've always love this magazine, but I'm disappointed that they ran the same article two years apart. I just happened to find an old copy from October 2018 and discovered the article titled "California's New Gold Coast" (page 48), which I had just read in the Fall 2020 issue (page 50). There was no notation in the 2020 issue saying that the article was previously seen in an earlier issue. That is questionable behavior, especially considering this magazine is expensive. All it would have taken was a notation saying that it was run before. Not noting it seems like they are hoping no one notices they are recycling articles. Otherwise, it has interesting articles and beautiful photos.
