Home Staging in South Redlands, Redlands

South Redlands takes in some of the city's best-known residential streets. The City of Redlands describes two of its local historic districts as being in south Redlands: the West Highland Avenue Historic and Scenic District, between Cajon Street and Cedar Avenue, and the Garden Hill Historic and Scenic District off Garden Street.

West Highland Avenue was laid out by Redlands founders Edward Judson and Frank Brown in 1886. Its homes, mostly built from the late 1880s to the 1920s, are largely grand two-story Victorian and Arts and Crafts houses on large lots with deep setbacks, with some postwar homes on the south side where an orange grove was subdivided. Garden Hill is hilly and curving, with Spanish Colonial, Colonial and Tudor Revival homes from the late 1910s and 1920s, stone retaining walls and lush front yards.

The area also has hillside landmarks like Kimberly Crest, set on a hill overlooking the valley, and newer homes and streets around them. Homes in south Redlands often have more rooms and more outdoor space than buyers expect, which makes staging especially useful: a library or sunroom that looks like a reading room instead of an empty space, a terrace set for dinner, and bedrooms that show off their size.

Because these homes vary so much, we start with a walkthrough. We decide which rooms to fully stage, which only need accents, and which pre-listing repairs are worth doing before photos.