**The Making of HGTV Magazine: A Behind-the-Scenes Look**

As we approach the deadline for our upcoming issue, our team is hard at work bringing together the perfect blend of style, functionality, and inspiration. At the heart of it all is Sherwin, who has been working closely with us to create a big cover unit that's sure to be a showstopper. With its colorful paint scheme and playful design elements, this cover is going to be one for the books.

"I thought we'd go through our past issues and try to come up with something new," explains our editorial director, Miley, who also oversees editorial direction for Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman magazine. "We've done some amazing ones in the past, and I think we can top them this year." With Miley's guidance, our team is always striving to push the boundaries of what's possible in home decor and design.

Our home and style director, Jamie, plays a crucial role in pulling together every shoot we do, including house tours. "She pulls together basically every shoot," says Miley, "so I don't even know if I could describe in a short period of time all the work that she does for the magazines." With Jamie's expertise, our team is able to create stunning visuals that bring our designs to life.

As we prepare for our flea market flips column, which is an old reader favorite that we're bringing back, our art department gets to work on creating mock-ups of the stories. "This kind of looks like the real thing," explains Miley, "but it's actually all been photoshopped and designed by our team." This process allows us to get a really accurate idea of what everything is going to look like before we start shooting.

Our photo director has been on hundreds of shoots, and she knows all the tricks. "We used to wallpaper a flats," she explains, "but it was taking a lot of time and you can't get a really smooth nice coverage." So, our team came up with a creative solution by buying foam board and taping it together before wallpapering over it. This not only saves time but also makes the process more efficient.

When we're preparing props for a shoot, our assistant home editor, Sydney, takes on the task of getting them in place. "We love working with other companies to try to feature them and feature their credits in the magazines," says Miley. Recently, Sydney worked on a junk drawer story called "organizing your gender" that featured a multitude of containers and trays and bins.

Our Deputy home editor, Laura, has been instrumental in conceptualizing this shoot. "It was really fun to sort of come up with these vignettes," she explains. "I feel like each of these nice fans have a different personality." In this case, the nightstand is portrayed as elegant and refined, which adds to the overall aesthetic of the room.

As we continue to work on our upcoming issue, it's clear that our team is dedicated to bringing you the best content possible. From design inspiration to practical tips and tricks, every page is carefully crafted to inspire and delight our readers. So, be sure to check out our January February issue, which will feature many of the elements you saw in this behind-the-scenes look at how we make HGTV Magazine. Don't forget to give us a thumbs up and subscribe for more exciting content!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you hi I'm Jessica I'm the executive editor at HGTV Magazine welcome I handle all our day-to-day operations so I work with all our amazing editors and designers and producers today I'm going to take you on a tour and show you how we put together each issue of the magazine so here we have our wall this is basically where we lay out every story and every issue so we can see the flow we're checking for design we're checking for Content we're making sure that we're not showing too many blue things or too many green things all in a row we have so much product that we feature in the magazine it's really good to make sure that I don't know we're not featuring Too Many fuzzy earmuffs or something like that um so this is our November December issue we actually just shipped this to the printer usually when we have Pages up here on the wall you'll see a couple of blank spaces we'll have spaces for stories that maybe we haven't finished yet or maybe we have a hole and we just aren't sure how to fill it but because we just shipped this to the printer thankfully it's all done um and so yeah you can see we have a lot of festive content we did a really big gift guide this year it's 50 gifts under 50 which I think is really nice we always have a bunch of house tours so these are actually stories about people's homes we go out on location and shoot them but yeah this is a really helpful place to see how the magazine is playing out all right so let's check out our art department so here we have Scott and we have Ridge and they are two of our amazing designers they design all the pages in the magazine and then some extra stuff but we actually are doing a shoot in the building today we are shooting our very popular flea market flips column and we just got our first shot in so what do you think reg it looks really good I agree that is so cute do you like the dark wall color I love it it looks very moody but in a very good way so you'll often find me at ridge's desk or Scott's desk um because Ridge designed so many stories in the magazine so we'll talk about does the design accurately reflect the editorial really it's important that everything we show is inspirational but also achievable so that's always kind of like the lens that we're looking through he's looking cute okay cool great we'll tell them so this is Lizzy she is our assistant visuals editor um Lizzy what are you doing right now I am working on a like to know it post for our like to know what app so product is so important magazine we show so many gorgeous things that you can buy and so obviously you can't just like click on the pages of a print magazine and buy things so one of the ways that we work that in digitally is that we post things on our Instagram account and then people can click through and then buy through links we actually only have three people on a magazine who write basically the whole magazine so as you can imagine they are very busy they're really talented writers here we have Aaron what are you working on right now Aaron I am working on a house tour which is my favorite thing to work on here where I get to interview homeowners about their Renovations decorating style and how they achieved these incredible books so that's what I'm doing right now house in Memphis Aaron always becomes best friends with every single homeowner we feature if you want to have a really serious conversation about serial commas or semicolons Anna's the person to talk to what are you reading now I'm working on this month's wow what color is that make sure everything's consistent matches our house style no factual errors or grammatical errors I'm the one with the red pen and you use it I do here is Kelly Kelly is our assistant Market editor she basically has one of the best jobs at the magazine because she gets to shop professionally so Kelly what are you working on right now I'm just going through and pulling some products from this house tour basically what I do all day I get to online shop go on all these different websites and for someone who does this off the clock for myself it's perfect so we're always working like at least four months in advance so you're always kind of thinking of the next season or the next year I was doing my stocking stuffers when I was 95 degrees now hi Rob hey how are you this is Rob he's our managing editor he handles pretty much all the business associated with the magazine he also Keeps Us on track with our deadlines and our budget we should probably talk about the March April issues yes so we just shipped November December to the printer we're currently shooting for the January February issue and then we just came out with our lineup so that's all the stories that we're putting in our March April issue we need to talk about deadlines when things are going to happen so when photo shoots are due yeah so what are you thinking about shoots for March April um well I think everything has to be shot before the holidays because we ship in late January so we've had far worse deadlines than that yeah I just um want to talk about Sherwin and our big cover unit for them because deadline's coming up yeah all the fun ones we did in the past I thought we'd go through them and just try to come up with something I feel like we've done these really amazing ones and we have to one of it this year yeah okay so something like a gatefold obviously colorful paint happy impact unit so Miley is our editorial director she's also the editorial director of the Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman magazine smile is very busy but I'm glad you're taking time to go through this project it's just so much fun to produce these I can't wait I need to keep that sweetie from okay got it okay great Jamie what's up um Jamie is our home and style director she pulls together basically every shoot we do especially all the house tours so I don't even know if I could describe in a short period of time all the work that she does for the magazines so we're shooting downstairs yes we maybe need some more prob I think so I mean it's looking really great they're doing an awesome job I think maybe just some guy maybe pop yeah on the nightstand um I don't know I thought maybe one of these oh those are cute yeah yeah or planter if we want to do one without flowers oh yeah this one's pretty fun that's nice I like that this room also in addition to housing or props it houses our craft supplies so if you are a DIY lover like I am this is basically Heaven I mean these are like Just Bins of tape like colorful tape basically if you ever want to do any kind of DIY project this is the place to go so we are at our photo studio and we are shooting our flea market flips column which is an old reader favorite that we actually are bringing back and we're so excited about so we're doing three flips today flips are basically vintage furniture that we've transformed we're doing nightstands and we are actually in the middle of changing out our set we are about to start our third and our final shot of the day one of the things we do to prep for really visual stories is our art Department actually mocks up all the stories beforehand so this kind of looks like the real thing but it's actually all been photoshopped and this is just so all the designers and editors can get a really accurate idea of what everything is going to look like so we already shot this you can see this is the real thing it looks really dark right now um this is the second one we shot today and we're about to change this one out and go on to our third night stand foreign photo director she has been on how many shoots do you think oh my God 500 so she basically knows all the tricks so can you tell us a little bit about what we are doing so we used to wallpaper a Flats the flat is the painted wall behind us and to wallpaper it was just taking a lot of time and you can't get a really smooth nice coverage yeah so we found that buying foam board four by eights taping them together and then wallpapering over that is smooth it's cheaper it's lighter and you can just slide it right in and then we just clamp it so that we'll clamp it and screw it on the bottom in this story it's going to look like a real bedroom but you can see here all smoke and mirrors so this is Sydney she's our assistant home editor so when we get him props for a shoot you are responsible for getting them in yeah well we love working with other companies to try to feature them and feature their credits in the magazines so I called in some of this wallpaper for the shoot today which you can see is on set as well as this sheepskin rug which we use in our previous vignette Sydney recently works on a junk drawer story organizing your gender that was um a lot of containers and trays and bins foreign I thought they were supposed to touch is that wrong I don't think that there's actually a hard and fast rule here you want Symmetry and so like we're going to prepare a little bit closer to the bed yeah this is Laura she's our Deputy home editor um so Laura you've basically conceptualized this shoot right yeah um it was really fun to sort of come up with these vignettes I feel like each of these nice fans have a different personality what would you say is this night's dance personality I like when we assign personalities to Furniture it helps yeah 100 uh you know like uh restrained femininity oh wow elegant she's elegant well that is the day in the life of how we make HGTV Magazine make sure you check out our January February issue you will see a bunch of things that you saw here in the magazine and then of course please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to HGTV handmade bye everyonethank you hi I'm Jessica I'm the executive editor at HGTV Magazine welcome I handle all our day-to-day operations so I work with all our amazing editors and designers and producers today I'm going to take you on a tour and show you how we put together each issue of the magazine so here we have our wall this is basically where we lay out every story and every issue so we can see the flow we're checking for design we're checking for Content we're making sure that we're not showing too many blue things or too many green things all in a row we have so much product that we feature in the magazine it's really good to make sure that I don't know we're not featuring Too Many fuzzy earmuffs or something like that um so this is our November December issue we actually just shipped this to the printer usually when we have Pages up here on the wall you'll see a couple of blank spaces we'll have spaces for stories that maybe we haven't finished yet or maybe we have a hole and we just aren't sure how to fill it but because we just shipped this to the printer thankfully it's all done um and so yeah you can see we have a lot of festive content we did a really big gift guide this year it's 50 gifts under 50 which I think is really nice we always have a bunch of house tours so these are actually stories about people's homes we go out on location and shoot them but yeah this is a really helpful place to see how the magazine is playing out all right so let's check out our art department so here we have Scott and we have Ridge and they are two of our amazing designers they design all the pages in the magazine and then some extra stuff but we actually are doing a shoot in the building today we are shooting our very popular flea market flips column and we just got our first shot in so what do you think reg it looks really good I agree that is so cute do you like the dark wall color I love it it looks very moody but in a very good way so you'll often find me at ridge's desk or Scott's desk um because Ridge designed so many stories in the magazine so we'll talk about does the design accurately reflect the editorial really it's important that everything we show is inspirational but also achievable so that's always kind of like the lens that we're looking through he's looking cute okay cool great we'll tell them so this is Lizzy she is our assistant visuals editor um Lizzy what are you doing right now I am working on a like to know it post for our like to know what app so product is so important magazine we show so many gorgeous things that you can buy and so obviously you can't just like click on the pages of a print magazine and buy things so one of the ways that we work that in digitally is that we post things on our Instagram account and then people can click through and then buy through links we actually only have three people on a magazine who write basically the whole magazine so as you can imagine they are very busy they're really talented writers here we have Aaron what are you working on right now Aaron I am working on a house tour which is my favorite thing to work on here where I get to interview homeowners about their Renovations decorating style and how they achieved these incredible books so that's what I'm doing right now house in Memphis Aaron always becomes best friends with every single homeowner we feature if you want to have a really serious conversation about serial commas or semicolons Anna's the person to talk to what are you reading now I'm working on this month's wow what color is that make sure everything's consistent matches our house style no factual errors or grammatical errors I'm the one with the red pen and you use it I do here is Kelly Kelly is our assistant Market editor she basically has one of the best jobs at the magazine because she gets to shop professionally so Kelly what are you working on right now I'm just going through and pulling some products from this house tour basically what I do all day I get to online shop go on all these different websites and for someone who does this off the clock for myself it's perfect so we're always working like at least four months in advance so you're always kind of thinking of the next season or the next year I was doing my stocking stuffers when I was 95 degrees now hi Rob hey how are you this is Rob he's our managing editor he handles pretty much all the business associated with the magazine he also Keeps Us on track with our deadlines and our budget we should probably talk about the March April issues yes so we just shipped November December to the printer we're currently shooting for the January February issue and then we just came out with our lineup so that's all the stories that we're putting in our March April issue we need to talk about deadlines when things are going to happen so when photo shoots are due yeah so what are you thinking about shoots for March April um well I think everything has to be shot before the holidays because we ship in late January so we've had far worse deadlines than that yeah I just um want to talk about Sherwin and our big cover unit for them because deadline's coming up yeah all the fun ones we did in the past I thought we'd go through them and just try to come up with something I feel like we've done these really amazing ones and we have to one of it this year yeah okay so something like a gatefold obviously colorful paint happy impact unit so Miley is our editorial director she's also the editorial director of the Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman magazine smile is very busy but I'm glad you're taking time to go through this project it's just so much fun to produce these I can't wait I need to keep that sweetie from okay got it okay great Jamie what's up um Jamie is our home and style director she pulls together basically every shoot we do especially all the house tours so I don't even know if I could describe in a short period of time all the work that she does for the magazines so we're shooting downstairs yes we maybe need some more prob I think so I mean it's looking really great they're doing an awesome job I think maybe just some guy maybe pop yeah on the nightstand um I don't know I thought maybe one of these oh those are cute yeah yeah or planter if we want to do one without flowers oh yeah this one's pretty fun that's nice I like that this room also in addition to housing or props it houses our craft supplies so if you are a DIY lover like I am this is basically Heaven I mean these are like Just Bins of tape like colorful tape basically if you ever want to do any kind of DIY project this is the place to go so we are at our photo studio and we are shooting our flea market flips column which is an old reader favorite that we actually are bringing back and we're so excited about so we're doing three flips today flips are basically vintage furniture that we've transformed we're doing nightstands and we are actually in the middle of changing out our set we are about to start our third and our final shot of the day one of the things we do to prep for really visual stories is our art Department actually mocks up all the stories beforehand so this kind of looks like the real thing but it's actually all been photoshopped and this is just so all the designers and editors can get a really accurate idea of what everything is going to look like so we already shot this you can see this is the real thing it looks really dark right now um this is the second one we shot today and we're about to change this one out and go on to our third night stand foreign photo director she has been on how many shoots do you think oh my God 500 so she basically knows all the tricks so can you tell us a little bit about what we are doing so we used to wallpaper a Flats the flat is the painted wall behind us and to wallpaper it was just taking a lot of time and you can't get a really smooth nice coverage yeah so we found that buying foam board four by eights taping them together and then wallpapering over that is smooth it's cheaper it's lighter and you can just slide it right in and then we just clamp it so that we'll clamp it and screw it on the bottom in this story it's going to look like a real bedroom but you can see here all smoke and mirrors so this is Sydney she's our assistant home editor so when we get him props for a shoot you are responsible for getting them in yeah well we love working with other companies to try to feature them and feature their credits in the magazines so I called in some of this wallpaper for the shoot today which you can see is on set as well as this sheepskin rug which we use in our previous vignette Sydney recently works on a junk drawer story organizing your gender that was um a lot of containers and trays and bins foreign I thought they were supposed to touch is that wrong I don't think that there's actually a hard and fast rule here you want Symmetry and so like we're going to prepare a little bit closer to the bed yeah this is Laura she's our Deputy home editor um so Laura you've basically conceptualized this shoot right yeah um it was really fun to sort of come up with these vignettes I feel like each of these nice fans have a different personality what would you say is this night's dance personality I like when we assign personalities to Furniture it helps yeah 100 uh you know like uh restrained femininity oh wow elegant she's elegant well that is the day in the life of how we make HGTV Magazine make sure you check out our January February issue you will see a bunch of things that you saw here in the magazine and then of course please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to HGTV handmade bye everyone\n"