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“There’s no place like home.”

We can all relate to the immortal lines said by Dorothy in The Wizard of OZ, as she closed her eyes and clicked those ruby slippers. After a lengthy business trip, a wonderful holiday or just a long day at the office, what we want is just to get back home. Home may be a two-room apartment in Salt Lake City, a ranch in Southern Utah, a farm outside Logan, a castle cabin in Deer Valley, or a palatial house with gardens in Federal Heights or Holladay. Chances are, whatever home is to you—if you own it—it is the most serious investment of your life. Home is more than just where the heart is.

It is the American Dream.

While it’s no secret that the attitudes of affluent Americans have changed, they remain one of the hardest segments of society to reach cost effectively. With unlimited resources available from an information-intensive society, affluent men and women are living multifaceted lifestyles. They have strong opinions about their environments, the arts and entertainment. They have a serious work ethic. And they have well-defined feelings about what the safe havens they return to at the end of the day will be. Because they are well-educated and of means, their opinions carry weight. They want to be informed consumers. These individuals appreciate quality products and can respond with immediate purchases.

Utah Homes & Garden is an excursion into the state’s more sophisticated and upscale personal environments. It is an intelligent voice, one written and produced by an educated staff for a more demanding audience. Utah Homes & Garden will reflect the taste level of its readers with well-written articles, eye-catching graphic design and, particularly, beautiful photographic layouts. It also considers our personal environments from both a current and classical perspective, with a central philosophy that strives to uncover the overlooked, underrated or ignored in Utah.

Utah Homes & Garden will be useful and compelling to a core readership from their early thirties to late fifties. Except for health care, this demographic spends more in each consumer category expenditure than any other age group.

Please join us in celebrating living well in Utah, with a magazine that advertising decision makers can use to cost-effectively influence a specific consumer in an upscale marketplace four times a year.