Designer and stylist Hilary Walker welcomes you to her dining room styling workshop, with a special focus on furniture, lighting, and decor.

Fundamentals of Styling: The Dining Room Trailer

Fundamentals of Styling: The Dining Room 

Establish a design direction for your dining room by gathering inspiration, considering color, and trusting the look and feel you’re drawn to.

Gathering Inspiration

Learn how to sketch a basic floor plan for your dining room that reflects furniture placement, function, and flow of the space.

Crafting a Floor Plan

Perfect the art of choosing and placing the right furniture and lighting in your dining room for an arrangement that brings your vision to life.

Placing Furniture and Lighting

Create a meaningful focal point in your dining room with a gallery wall of artwork. Hilary shares her step-by-step approach to choosing and hanging pieces that tell a layered story.

Adding Wall Art

Learn how to layer your space with personality by following Hilary’s guide to styling with textiles and tabletop decor.

Styling and Decor

Learn from a designer’s perspective how a completed dining room comes together using the five principles of design: scale, balance, contrast, focus, and flow.

The Completed Room

Bring your dream dining room to life with direction from designer and stylist Hilary Walker.

Hilary Walker is a creative director and stylist at Magnolia. After studying interior design, she moved into a decade of creating inspired spaces for photo shoots and television. Her approach is vibrant, artful and collected—with a focus on vintage and one-of-a-kind. 

Fundamentals of Styling: The Dining Room

Chapters

IntroFundamentals of Styling: The Dining Room

Ch 1Gathering Inspiration

Ch 2Crafting a Floor Plan

Ch 3Placing Furniture and Lighting

Ch 4Adding Wall Art

Ch 5Styling and Decor

Ch 6The Completed Room

Meet The Creator

Hilary Walker