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

Fundamentals of Styling: The Living Room Trailer

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

Gathering Inspiration

Learn how to sketch a basic floor plan for your living 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 rug in your living room for an arrangement that brings your vision to life.

Placing Furniture and Rugs

Both natural and artificial light play an essential role in the design of your living room. Learn how each type of lighting can enhance the aesthetic and livability of a space.

Types of Lighting

Styling a space isn't just about pretty things. Make your space personal with decor that says something about you. With a focus on shelving, tabletop surfaces, and textiles, Hilary teaches you how to bring in beauty with meaning.

Styling and Decor

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

The Completed Room

Bring your dream living 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. 

Hilary Walker

Fundamentals of Styling: The Living Room

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