Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living: Tips, Tricks, Recipes, and Ideas to Make Your Life Bloom

by Brini Maxwell

Who can turn the world on with her style? Brini can! In the first season of her hugely popular show on the Style Network, domestic diva Brini Maxwell made a big splash with her unparalleled personal flair and novelty know-how. Now, just in time for the second season of "The Brini Maxwell Show," this up-and-coming icon of retro classic style has created a fun and fabulous guide to living the beautiful life, welcoming readers into the colorful, upbeat world that has already won her a cult following.

Here Brini offers her favorite tips, tricks, and ideas for decorating, cooking, dressing, entertaining, and even housekeeping with spirit and panache. She approaches every challenge on the domestic front-from how to perk up a room to what to eat for breakfast to how to pack a suitcase-with a winning combination of creativity, élan, and resourcefulness. Designed with the same hip, mid-century modern look as her television show, the book includes more than 100 household hints and recipes, funky full-color illustrations, and photographs of Brini in action. Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living is sure to bring a host of new fans to this offbeat goddess of stylish domesticity.

Genres: Lifestyle, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Alisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

For this type of book I thought it was just ok. Brini has a few good quips sprinkled through her advice book and I like her sense of wit. It started out fun but turned into a random assortment of recipes and craft projects. The recipes were nothing special but easy enough, but the craft projects were borderline tacky and complex. Maybe making centerpieces constructed using felt and colored plexiglas are supposed to be part of the humor, but it seemed just tacky and cheap.

[Val · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it. It was a simply marvelous, fabulous overview of some basic things involved in entertaining and travelling. A great book with some tips that will prove beneficial to me in the upcoming holiday season. A light and fluffy read with some great ideas and recipes that are easy to do and none of them are complicated. Would make a great gift book for someone who loves to be a hostess.

[Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice light reading. Chalk full of great inspirations.

[Cat · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is such a sweet reference guide ... but I have to say that it like many references for "good living" from the mid-2000's has not weathered as well as its gracious author.