How to style your dining table for Christmas

Tips, Tricks & Products from Westpoint on how to style your dining table for Christmas

Published 07 December

When you’ve put up your tree, decked the halls with Christmas cheer and jingled all the way to Westpoint to buy lots of treats for your festive feast, it’s time to style your dining table.

Since we’re all holidaying at home this year, we’re going for a relaxed, Aussie themed Christmas table… think outdoor setting, chic but casual styling and, of course, plenty of prawns on the menu.

Here’s how we styled our Christmas table in 5 easy steps, all with products from Westpoint:

1) Pick your colour scheme and theme

Or go one step further and create a vision board! It’s how we start all of our reno projects and how we started our Christmas styling too.

This Christmas, our vision board features rustic colours, natural materials and lots of lush eucalyptus greenery to bring the outdoors in.

2) Choose your tableware

We shunned matchy-matchy and went for mis-matched tableware to create the relaxed, Aussie vibe for this dining table.

Our Acacia wood outdoor setting is brand new, so the timber tones add to the theme, but if your table isn’t so shiny anymore, a linen look cloth will be perfect for covering any sins of Christmases past.

The textured glassware goblets and tumblers from Bed Bath N’ Table and the coupe glasses from Myer (the perfect all-rounder glass for cocktails and Champagne) are all different coloured and textures to create this relaxed vibe.

Paired with table linen from Myer, dinner plates and bowls from Target and cutlery from Kmart… we’re all set to get styling!

3) Layer it up

Now that you’ve got all your bits and bob ready to roll, it’s time to create some layers. The trick to adding interest to your table is all in the placement. Throw down your table cloth, or use it as a runner like we have here, and then get to work creating each place setting.

Stack your bowls on different coloured plates, add cutlery, glassware and a pop a ring on each linen napkin, then top it all off with an individual sprig of foliage on each setting.

4) Dress the surroundings

To continue the theme throughout the area, we hung two gorgeous rattan pendants above the table and strung bunches of eucalyptus, to bring the outdoors in to the entertaining deck. Potted olive trees complete the look.