a stack of magazines

for years i was obsessed with decor magazines; i would buy 3 or 4 or sometimes 7 per month with little regard to their actual content. i might, for example, purchase a magazine for a single photo of, say, julianne moore's new york bathroom. i bought country living, canadian house & home and country home; then i became slightly more contemporary, hording metropolitan home and collecting north american or french or uk elle; more recently i have taken to domino and living etc... i never thought twice about the cost; i even packed up several boxes of them when i moved to my current home.

i am a collector by nature - some say pack rat (potatoe, potato). it became ridiculous though - not wanting to break up stacks because the spines lined up so neatly and so colourfully together. three years ago i had had enough! it would have been impossible to use them as a reference for any project and the shear weight of them likely broke some city bylaw...

i started to believe in the idea of inspiration walls - collect images of what you would like your environment to be, the style you want to surround you: a kind of see them & be them attitude...

so i made a new rule: no magazines over 2 years old were allowed to stay intact in my home. the stack (many small stacks gathered together for the occasion), crept up from the floor to my chest (i wish i had taken the photo). i flipped through each mag for the last time clipping out any item of current or timeless interest and put them in my [inspiration file] : home, kitchen, bath, bedroom, storage, art + furniture, projects, recipes & garden. i even used the file on my latest reno projects (though many would still say my style is haphazard at best).
my current magazine stack is barely knee deep.

btw
stack height = 142cm
mag height avg = .7cm
mag cost average = 8$cdn
cost of stack = 1622$ (not including tax)