Renovating Your Kitchen On A Shoestring Budget

With the average kitchen renovation conservatively estimated at between $10,000 to $15,000, you can appreciate the challenge of gutting and replacing this old-timer on a budget of roughly $5000. But that’s the reality of TV renovating for my slot on The Living Room – time […]

Cherie’s Berkeley Vale Renovation

Central Coast mum of three Lea was in trouble.  She purchased her investment property on the ill advise of an accountant ten years ago, and the property has sent her into a black hole of debt to the tune of $2,000 per month.  That’s on […]

Warehouse Wow Factor

When it comes to choosing an interior style for your property, the word “contemporary”embraces a wide range of looks. It could be anything from a crisp, white minimalist theme, to mid-century, to beachy “Hamptons” or something quite classic that allows the furnishings and artworks to […]

Cherie’s Emu Plains Renovation

Larissa and her mother Wendy are wanting to renovate their old family home, which is currently owned by Larissa’s grandmother and Wendy’s mother. Unfortunately the house needs to be sold to pay for the continual nursing home costs where Larissa’s grandmother is currently residing. The […]

Cherie’s Kingswood Renovation

THE STORY: It’s a stroll down memory lane this week for our RFP guru, Cherie Barber who heads back to her heartland, the suburb she grew up in! Not only is she happy to be back in the hood, but this week’s challenge is to […]

Cherie’s South Windsor Renovation

THE STORY: Cherie Barber takes on a mammoth project and converts a low earning single dwelling into a double dipping, high yield earning property for owners Selene & Wayne. When Cherie first assessed the property, she quickly determined that the main property was in dire […]

Renovating a kitchen on a $1000 budget

For this renovation, I was faced with a kitchen stuck in a 1970s time warp – and the challenge of giving it a quick cosmetic refresh for under $1,000.   On this kind of budget, paint and a lot of DIY is your best friend. Here’s […]