Celebrity Home Stager Meridith Baer Shares 10 Outdoor Staging Tips

It’s the best time of year to put your house on the market. Long summer days give a property more time in the beauty of twilight to capture the imaginations of buyers. Staging is an important part of making a distinctive first impressions, and whether showing a multi-million dollar property or not, buyers should be engaged the second they pull up to the driveway.

High profile stager, Meridith Baer of Meridith Baer Home, knows that the outdoor space of a home is the most important part of that first impression. Baer recently staged Matthew Perry’s home in Malibu, and although he had the beautiful Pacific ocean as his backdrop, Baer still managed to create an outdoor space that looked unique and elegant.

10 outdoor staging tips from Meridith Baer

1. Think of the outdoor as you think about the indoor and divide the space into rooms.

2. What will you be doing in each room? If you have the space, create a dining room and living room.

3. The furnishings should relate to what you will be doing in each space.

4. Buyers will flock to where you create an inviting scenario.

5. Put two chairs and a little drinks table in an area that no one uses and suddenly you have a new room.

6. Find unusual objects at flea markets and place them outside as points of interest.

7. Stone animals, metal forms. I even put a new wood statue outside so it would age and look like an antique.

8. Make every area you see from the inside look special.

9. Look out every window and create the painting that you want to see every day.

10. Pick up interesting planters when you find them and create groups of them to define spaces.