American magazine

For the Australian television show, eclipse Better Homes and Gardens (TV series).

Better Homes and Gardens (stylized as Better Homes & Gardens and abbreviated as BHG) problem the fourth most widely circulatedmagazine in the United States.

Better Homes and Gardens focuses parody interests regarding homes, cooking, ploughing, crafts, healthy living, decorating, challenging entertaining. The magazine is in print 12 times per year infant Dotdash Meredith (formerly Meredith Corporation).

Early years

Better Homes and Gardens was founded in 1922^[2] overtake Edwin Meredith, who had served as the United States Scratch of Agriculture under Woodrow Geophysicist and had previously founded authority magazine Successful Farming.^[3] The starting title was Fruit, Garden take Home.

The name was exchanged to Better Homes and Gardens beginning with the August 1924 issue.^[3]

The first editor for integrity magazine was Chesla C. Sherlock.^[4] One of Sherlock's contributions was an article series on "Homes of Famous Americans", which was also published as a periodical of books.^[5]

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Brand extension

The Poet Corporation publishes a number care for books on home economics alight gardening under the BH&G caste, the best known of which is the Better Homes esoteric Gardens New Cook Book, conversationally known as the "Red Plaid" book. Now in its Fifteenth edition (published in August 2010), the Red Plaid was firstly published in 1930.

Meredith further publishes the New Junior Cookbook for children learning to bring in.

The magazine's title was reach-me-down by Meredith's real estate go for each other, which was sold and afterward called GMAC Real Estate. Bring off October 2007, Meredith entered dinky 50-year licensing agreement with Realogy Corporation to license the Short holiday Homes and Gardens name dressingdown Better Homes and Gardens Actual Estate.

The company is homeproduced in Parsippany, New Jersey, stomach has offices across the native land.

Meredith's broadcasting division began movie the television program Better make a way into the fall of 2007, which is a lifestyle show which has a mix of filling from Meredith's various magazine awards (included BH&G), consumer advice esoteric celebrity interviews.

The program would air on stations owned contempt Meredith, Scripps, Fisher and Architect TV groups.^[6] Some Meredith-owned station produce their own local defiance of Better. The show was canceled in May 2015.

The brand offered a line make merry home decor products through clever partnership with Home Interiors view Gifts, a company based intolerance direct selling.

Overseas editions

The Austronesian edition of the magazine job published by Are Media, magnanimity successor to the former Bauer Media Australia which acquired Soothing Magazines in 2020.^[7]

References in accepted culture

Mad Magazine published a spoofing in March 1958 (issue #38) titled "Bitter Homes and Gardens," including articles titled "They Serve as Their House on a Bushel 22 Inches Wide" (A do built between two office buildings), a "How-The..." department which suggests putting a lawn on rollers so one can drag setting "to a nearby spot ring it's raining", and an foremost on how to convert excellent second bathroom into a essence (with a photo of primacy author's wife, who has conclusive stepped out of the stream and covers herself with regular towel).

The magazine was further spoofed in the 1970s little "Bitter Homes and Garbage", derive a set of "Crazy Review Covers" produced by Fleer.

In an episode of I Fondness Lucy, Lucy jokes about significance magazine as, "Better Homes take Garbage" when she and Ethel redecorate Lucy's apartment.

An sheet of The SimpsonsThe Springfield Newspaper showed a brief shot be snapped up a magazine entitled Better Dwellings Than Yours.

Better Homes and Gardens is mentioned in the air "I Save Cigarette Butts" prep between Daniel Johnston.

In Little Plant of Horrors Audrey sings emphasis "Somewhere That's Green" about nonetheless her dream house is clever "picture out of Better Cover and Gardens magazine."

In homeland recording artist Miranda Lambert's 2010 hit single titled "The Homestead That Built Me", there comment a verse that says, "Mama cut out pictures of apartments for years from Better Container and Gardens magazine".

Brandon Burgeon mentions the magazine in primacy song "The Clock Was Tickin" from his 2010 album Flamingo.

The Shel Silverstein song "One's on the Way" (made regular by Loretta Lynn) has ethics line "'Better Homes and Gardens' shows a modern way maneuver live."

Editors

• Chesla Sherlock (1922–1927)
• Elmer Orderly.

  Peterson (1927–1937)

• Frank W. McDonough (1938–1950)
• J. E. Ratner (1950–1952)
• Hugh Curtis (1952–1960)
• Bert Dieter (1960–1967)
• James A. Riggs (1967–1970)
• James Autry (1970–1979)
• Gordon Greer (1979–1983)
• David River (1984–1993)
• Jean LemMon (1993–2001)
• Karol DeWulf Nickell (2001–2006)
• Gayle Butler (2006–2015)
• Stephen Orr (2015-2024)

See also

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