''Southern Living'' is a

lifestyle magazine Lifestyle journalism is the field of journalism that provides news and opinion, often in an entertaining tone, regarding goods and services used by consumers in their everyday life. Lifestyle journalism covers travel, fashion, fitness, leisure, fo ...

aimed at readers in the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

featuring recipes, house plans, garden plans, and information about Southern culture and travel. It is published by

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...

–based

Southern Progress Corporation Southern Progress Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a publisher of lifestyle magazines and books owned by IAC's Dotdash Meredith. The company publishes such magazines as ''Southern Living'', '' Cooking Light'', ''Health'' and ''Co ...

, a unit of IAC's Dotdash Meredith.

History

The magazine was started in 1966 by The Progressive Farmer Company, the publisher of ''

Progressive Farmer ''Progressive Farmer'' is an agricultural magazine, published 14 times a year by DTN. The magazine is based in Birmingham, Alabama. History Founded in Winston, North Carolina, in 1886 by North Carolina native Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837–18 ...

'' magazine. In 1980, the company changed its name to

to reflect its increasingly diverse business, and in 1985, it was purchased by

Time, Inc. Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake ''Time'', ''Sports Illu ...

for $498 million. In 2017 Time, Inc. was purchased by the Meredith Corporation.

Cooking

One of the major topics in ''Southern Living'' is food, and since 1979, the magazine has published a popular ''Annual Recipes'' book each year.

Homes

''Southern Living'' regularly features

floorplan In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure. Dimensio ...

s, and over the magazine's history, a number of these have become popular home styles in the Southeast. Many of these plans are available for purchase as construction

blueprints A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited numb ...

from the company's website.

Southern Living at Home

In 2001, Southern Progress Corporation started a party-plan direct marketing company called Southern Living at Home.About Southern Living at Home
/ref> The products available at the parties include exclusive lines of home accessories and dishware seen in or inspired by ''Southern Living'' as well the various books and magazines produced by the company. In April 2010, Southern Living at Home introduced its new name: "Willow House".

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