BUDGET RENOVATING

“I’ve become known as the girl who can renovate cheaply but still do a good-quality job, and that resonates because most people don’t have a lazy 20 or 40 grand. So when I do my TV renos, and transform a house inside and out for $15,000, people go ‘Wow, you can do that’. That’s where stores like Ikea and the Salvos come in – even Kmart and Target have incredible fixtures and fittings.”

“I love everything from the 1950s and ’60s. I just missed out on being born in the ’60s. People generally want to be younger, I want to be slightly older, and say I was born in the ’60s!” ~ Cherie Barber