I am quite content with how my preliminary magazine turned out. However, there indeed are a few areas where things could have been improved. I decided to base my magazine on interior designing. I used rather subtle colors throughout the magazine to make it seem very cozy, welcoming, and calming. I love real-life stories of people and wanted to include either an interview or a story of someone designing their house, hence went with the chair renovating story. Since this was my first magazine with a proper theme, I did extensive research and did take inspiration from many existing magazines. The two main covers I used for inspiration are attached above. I absolutely adore color palettes and made one before designing each page. I even included one in one of the pages to show what paints would be perfect for such furniture and love how it turned out. 
On the contents page, there is this image of color charts which I took from the internet, since I couldn't find any charts in real life and was short on time. The image feels like it's been forcefully included and removing it or adding something else would improve it. Adding to this, more articles could have been added to improve it and to balance the image-text ratio.