| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cherie Barber |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | February 13, 1970. As of 2024, she is around 54 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | Australian |
| How many properties does Cherie Barber renovated? | Since 2002, Cherie has been known as ‘Australia’s Renovation Queen’. Over 150 properties have been renovated by her personally. |
Introduction :
- Cherie Barber is an Australian property renovator, who has become a public figure through her work on the Australian television program The Living Room and the American TV show 5 Day Flip.
- Cherie Barber is also the founder of Renovating for Profit, one of the first companies to teach renovation of houses in a step-by-step process.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Chelsea Barber was born in Sydney, the eldest child to a stay-at-home mother and an earth-moving tractor operator father. She grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney alongside her three other siblings.
- When her parents divorced in 1986, Barber’s life was uprooted, leading her to leave school to help support herself and her mother.
- It was this challenging period of her life that taught her about how to run a business, as well as teaching her the self-discipline necessary to later kick-start her successful career.
Early Life and Education :
- At just 21 years old, Barber accidentally began her career as a property renovator after buying a property she realised she did not want.
- By quickly fixing it up and selling it on for a small profit, she saw a way out of the nine to five workday and started to build her own way to make a living.
- The next house she renovated would take her eight years, next to her full-time job in marketing. This time, however, she thoroughly renovated the entire place, thus solidifying her love for renovation.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- During Barber’s first year of renovating professionally, she bought six houses, through which she began creating her own templates and methods for streamlining the renovation process
- In 2002, Barber appeared on television for the first time during the Today Tonight program of Network Seven. She quickly became a regular, quickly gathering a public following that watched her progress through TV shows and newspaper articles.
- In 2009, Cheri launched her own company Renovating for Profit, to teach people how to renovate for profit in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner. It is an immediate success.
- Following the launch of her company, Cherie was invited to become a regular cast member on Network TEN’s The Living Room, a weekly lifestyle show broadcast in Australia. She has worked on the show since its launch in 2011.
- In 2015, she stepped out of her busy schedule in Australia for 11 weeks to film her first American television series 5 Day Flip, the premise being to renovate a house, inside-out, in just five days. This show helped display Cherie’s work across the world.
Fun Facts, Height and Trivia :
- One of Barber’s first renovated properties set a record in the suburb for profit gained
- Few in the Australian media also refer to her as “Australia’s Renovation Queen.”
- Despite being a self-made wealthy woman, Cherie remains down-to-earth, never forgetting the hardship of her youth and still feeling like a regular, girl-on-the-street.
- The first year of her career as a professional renovator turned a profit of over a million dollars.
- Over the course of her decades-long career, Cherie has personally renovated more than 30 houses.
- Most people generally want to be younger, but Cherie would rather be slightly older and often says that she was born in the 1960s!
