If your design sense is post modern with dashes of American Western simplicity/rustic with modern Pacific Rim elements - this is the magazine for you. It showcases 'example' homes and gardens that you can emulate or re-model towards.

Of course, everything is at the high-end - after all, lifestyle mags are about aspiration but it is all approached and presented in a refreshingly straightforward manner. This is not a pretentious magazine with coverage of garish McMansions or fadish pop art design style some people might associate with the West Coast.

It tells its stories through sharp, large and numerous photographs and simple, direct details about the property. The coverage on new furnishings is also direct and with relevant photographs.

They also cover western real estate, art and relevant western U.S. stories such as vacation getaways with online or phone links for more information.

As a relatively new magazine, if you haven't seen it on the news stand, it emulates the clean design & feel of the architecture & design section in SUNSET MAGAZINE (Sunset, a fine magazine itself - of course only devotes about 5-8 pages a month to architecture & design).

So, if you like SUNSET MAGAZINE and wish there was more architecture & design coverage, you will deinitely appreciate & like this magazine.

It is a classy, simple and cleanly designed magazine devoted to California & West Coast architecture and design.