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Cherie Barber

Renovations Expert

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Cherie Barber is a full-time professional renovator. She has personally renovated 26 properties and been involved in deals well over $50 million. You can catch Cherie on the LifeStyle Home Channel.

Latest Q+A's

Where to start in property development/renovation

Posted Saturday 2 June 2012 |0 Comments

Hi Cherie. I am very eager to make a change and start developing property as a primary source of income. At present I have split my block and am building two new homes for immediate sale. I am really not sure whether the...

revantion a old queenslander

Posted Sunday 12 June 2011 |0 Comments

we have a old high set queenslander that isnt quit legail hight what is the cheapes why to raise this home so we can build in under the home thanks janine

Renovations costs per metre

Posted Wednesday 14 November 2012 |0 Comments

Hi, We are getting quotes to renovate the rear of our home in lightweight materials. It includes doing a new kitchen and two new bathrooms. There is some demolition of external walls down to the existing floors and then...

Can I widen a narrow driveway, located adjacent my old Victorian house

Posted Sunday 25 November 2012 |0 Comments

Hi, Can you help me, I have an old Victorian house with a driveway adjacent to it, which leads to the garage however the driveway is way too narrow to fit our medium sized car, hence unfortunately we only can park it at...

4th bedroom vs study

Posted Tuesday 9 October 2012 |0 Comments

When staging a house for sale, would you recommend having four bedrooms ... or do you think it would sell better as 3 bedroom plus study... or do you think there is not much difference? We are in a family friendly suburb...

what amount to spend?

Posted Sunday 7 October 2012 |0 Comments

Dear Cherie.My 1900's federation house is worth about $270,000 I want to do it up with wooden floor boards, it has cracks in most rooms, mabye also needing a new roof I would also like french doors to the back yard and the...

Renovating

Posted Monday 3 December 2012 |0 Comments

Hi Cherie, I want to get professionals to renovate my house but I don't know where to start. I'm looking at a bathroom, windows, flooring, painting etc. I have a three bedroom brick house with Granny flat it's about 30 years...

renovating / updatind stairs

Posted Sunday 7 October 2012 |0 Comments

Hi Cherie Love your work! Have recently purchased a home which have pretty dated stairs that we are wanting to update. The front door opens to a small area which leads directly to the stairs up to the main living area....

Splashback

Posted Saturday 29 September 2012 |0 Comments

Please could u help. We have a black glass splashback behind our stove. Some white cracks have appeared on it in two places but on inspection the glass id in tact but the black behind has cracked. How can this b fixed

Renovating fireplace

Posted Saturday 29 September 2012 |0 Comments

Our home is an Older home woth a very Outdated fireplace , I would love to gib or cover over the fireplace with a nice feature wall. Do we leave the fireplace in tact or have it blocked off somehow? It really does not...