These Gorgeous Veranda Zoom Backgrounds Will Seriously Refresh Your Video Calls

If you feel like you basically live on a video call, you're not alone. Over the last few weeks, much of the activity in our lives—from work to happy hours with friends to celebrating milestones and holidays—has shifted to our homes, and thus to our screens, in an effort to stay connected with colleagues, friends, and family.

Earlier this week, we shared styling tips from Los Angeles-based interior desginer Joe Lucas for how to zhush up your work from home set up for video calls, especially if you don't have a dedicated home office in place already.

But here's an even quicker solution for styling your zoom call set up: download a new Veranda zoom background. We've created a selection of nine using some of our most beautiful home exterior, poolside, and garden images for an extra refreshing change of scenery. (If you can't pull yourself away from your screen to get outside, you might as well fake it on zoom!)

Follow the simple steps below to live in the (virtual) house of your dreams, from a poolside perch in Southern California to the extravagant gardens of Versailles.

Step 1: Save the images on the slides that follow as a JPEG to your computer

Step 2: On your next Zoom call, click the arrow next to the video icon and select “virtual background.”

Step 3: Upload your selected image, and voilà! You live here now.