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Styling, Outdoor Spaces, Furnishing Elise Lauterbach Styling, Outdoor Spaces, Furnishing Elise Lauterbach

Airbnb Outdoor Styling: Or, Why Vintage Furniture Beats Big Box Every Time

I'm about to tell you how to make your Airbnb's outdoor space actually worth the "outdoor seating area" checkbox you're ticking in your listing.

Furniture with character makes small spaces memorable.

The truth is, guests remember spaces that make them feel something. Outdoors is where the magic happens— people actually sit outside and breathe when they are away from home. Outside is where they drink their morning coffee and text their friends "omg this place." That's your five-star review, sitting there under that string of lights you're about to hang.

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