37 publications paying for home & garden writing

Earn up to $2/word for smart home and garden features, service pieces, and design‑driven essays.

Want to pitch home and garden stories but not sure where to start?

This new roundup pulls together 37 active publications that pay for work on the spaces we live in and the land we care for.

Here, ‘home & garden’ is broad. It stretches from glossy interior design features and renovation deep‑dives to practical service pieces on DIY and organisation, through to gardening, homesteading, wildlife‑friendly yards, and property or landscape stories that sit at the edge of environment and place.

Each listing includes what the outlet commissions, specific pay details where they’re available, and a direct link to guidelines, mastheads, or contacts.

Whether you looking to write service‑driven how‑tos, richly reported features, profiles of designers and growers, or personal essays rooted in domestic life, you’ll find markets here for everything from small‑space apartment styling and big structural remodels to regenerative gardens, working homesteads, and design‑led stories about how people shape their homes and land.

If you have insights into specific pay rates, or if you’ve been offered different terms than those listed here, please let me know by replying to this email or by messaging me on Substack.

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37 publications paying for home & garden writing

AARP The Magazine is the world’s largest‑circulation magazine, focused on helping readers aged 50+ live healthier, happier, more financially secure lives. They commission health, lifestyle, money, work, and features that speak directly to an over‑50 audience, and writer reports put rates at around $2/word and up for print pieces. Guidelines here.​​

Dwell is a design and technology brand. Dwell promotes good design for everyone. They publish home tours, reported pieces, interviews, and essays, all focused on the power of smart design and new ideas about where and how we live. They pay $1/word for print and $0.50/word for web content. Check out their detailed pitch guidelines.

Good Housekeeping are interested in long-form narratives, deeply reported service pieces and personal essays that offer a compelling point of view, a personal story behind the news, a unique story rooted in the ideas of house/home or a deep-dive guide into a topic that will help improve readers’ everyday lives. Pay is often at $2/word, so even more than just $1/word, and all the details about what they want can be found here.