If you’re watching Channel Seven’s new home renovation show, My Reno Rules, you’re probably curious about the show’s slate of judges: Neale Whitaker, Simon Cohen and Julia Green. While most home enthusiasts are familiar with Neale, whose other TV credits include The Block and Love It or List It Australia, what about My Reno Rules‘ other interiors expert, Julia?
Home Beautiful Editor, Elle Lovelock recently sat down with the Channel Seven judge on The Edit podcast, where she shared her surprising entrance into the industry, and what she really thinks of her My Reno Rules co-stars.
Listen to Julia Green on The Edit podcast
If you’re keen to heart more about this new mainstay of Australia television, read on for out favourite fun facts about Julia Green.
Who is Julia Green on My Reno Rules?
Julia has been an interior stylist and entrepreneur for around 15 years. With a captivating Instagram presence and a thriving art and styling business, Greenhouse Interiors, Julia has garnered throngs of online devotees who adore her colourful, eclectic style. After appearing on a few episodes of The Block, Julia signed on as one of the judges of My Reno Rules in 2026.
Keen to know more? Here’s the most fascinating tidbits we learned about Julia via her appearance on the Home Beautiful podcast, The Edit.
She started her career as a pharmaceutical representative
“I actually used to peddle drugs,” Julia joked on The Edit podcast. “Legal drugs!”
Julia was a pharmaceutical rep for 17 years, eventually leading sales and marketing teams, and becoming one of the youngest executives in her field at the time. It was not something she thought she’d ever do.
“It was not something I ever thought I’d do,” she began. “I was literally halfway through a uni degree and felt like I was a very poor student, and opened the paper up one day and said ‘I need a job’. And [an ad] said, ‘Would you like a car and a lot of money?’, and I said, ‘yes, please.’ So, I applied for that job.”
Her pivot to styling came at the advice of an influential stranger
Back then, Julia never dreamed of being an interior stylist. However, fate intervened when she sold a couch online to someone who saw her potential.
“I was heavily pregnant with my second child and about to start maternity leave, and a man came to the door who was buying a couch from me off eBay,” she began. “His eyes were everywhere, all over the room, and I’m like, ‘oh God, this is really weird’… He must have [noticed] that I was a bit nervous, and said, ‘Oh, sorry, your house is beautiful. Are you a stylist?’ And I said, ‘what’s that?’ because I didn’t know there were jobs or people called stylists.
“He said, ‘You’re in the wrong job’, and handed a card over and he was a freelance photographer for Vogue.”
As it would happen, Julia gave birth only four hours later, and forgot all about her peculiar encounter with an industry insider. At the end of her maternity leave, she found the card and decided to give him a call: “I rang him and he said, ‘There’s a job tomorrow for Home Beautiful.’” As they say, the rest is history.
Her first interior styling job was for Home Beautiful
After accepting her first freelance styling job with the help of her new acquaintance, Julia reminisced about turning up at work completely unprepared.
“I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I turned up [to the job] in my corporate outfit, like suit, jacket, high heels. I didn’t know what I was doing,” she began. “I learned very quickly that day. The heels were kicked off and I was barefoot, climbing trees, putting fairy lights around trees for some event Home Beautiful was doing.
“From that day, the crew said, ‘Can you come back tomorrow?’ and I’ve not got off that treadmill ever since.”
What Julia thinks of the other My Reno Rules judges
“They are the most gorgeous humans,” Julia said of her My Reno Rules co-hosts, Neale Whitaker and Simon Cohen. “I absolutely struck gold with these two. So, Neale Whitaker, who is obviously a design icon, we love him. How could you not love Neale? He’s just the most delightful man.
“Simon is one of the funniest men I have ever met in my entire life. He could absolutely moonlight as a comedian, and he’s just the kindest, sweetest human as well.”
The casting agents for My Reno Rules clearly picked-up on some chemistry among their dynamic judging trio, with Julia saying: “We all just bounce off each other. We disagree, we agree, we hug, we cry, we do all of it, and none of us knew each other before.”
“I didn’t expect to leave [filming the series] loving them, and I did. I have a place in my heart for both,” she shared.
How could you not love Neale? He’s just the most delightful man… Simon is one of the funniest men I have ever met in my entire life.
— Julia Green on her fellow My Reno Rules judges
She owns her own business, Greenhouse Interiors
Julia is the founder and owner of Greenhouse Interiors, “the #1 destination for boutique textiles, homewares, fine art and interior styling services,” per her website. She founded the company in 2010, and has since employed several full-time staff members and supported over 70 local artists.
In addition to interior styling services, Greenhouse Interiors is a destination for art lovers, where you can buy affordable, original artworks, and designer rugs, homewares and more.
“Greenhouse almost came instantaneously alongside the job [as a stylist], because, as you would know, when you’re propping for shoots, you’re on the hunt for all these beautiful, interesting, amazing objects, or interesting works to make those spaces feel really considered and layered and beautiful,” Julia began. “I was in all sorts of places at the time that not everybody was in, and finding these incredible artists and boutique makers, and I realised really quickly that there was a gap for that.”
She collects art
Given the nature of her business, it may not be surprising that Julia Green has an impressive home art collection, with works by famed Australian artists like John Olsen and Charles Blackman. The hobby started well before her turn as a stylist, with Julia using her 18th birthday money on an investment artwork.
“I was given $1000 for my 18th birthday, and I was allowed to either have a party or buy a gift for myself, and I bought a Charles Blackman,” she told Elle Lovelock on The Edit. “I drove past it every day on the way to my pub job at uni. It was this beautiful butterfly, and it was all my favourite colours. I looked at it every day on that journey for three months, and it was still there when I turned 18, and I said to Mum, ‘I think you’ll support me on this one. I’m dropping every single cent of that $1000 on an artwork.”
She hosts travel tours of Morocco
Julia’s love affair with Morocco is well documented on her Instagram. And her love of the country has spawned another professional side project in which she and fellow stylist, Jono Fleming, offer guided tours.
“We basically take 12 lucky women on the carpet ride of their life,” she explains. “We just say, leave your brain in your suitcase and we’ll take care of you. And from there we do beautiful, private riad rooftop dinners, we do garden tours, we spend time in Yves Saint Laurent’s house, we go glamping in the desert, and swim in lip pools in the desert overlooking all of the mountains. We eat, eat, eat and shop, shop, shop.”
She has two sons, and her mother was a major influence on her style
Julia attributes a lot of her signature bold aesthetic to her mother. “My mother’s a really informative part of every fabric of my being, and I grew up in a house that was a riot of colour,” she shares. However, her mother’s influence didn’t stop there. She was also singer, and as a result, Julia and her family are all musically inclined. Her youngest son is now a DJ, and Julia says the soundtrack to their home varies from electronic music to opera.
As for the rest of her family life, Julia celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary in 2025, and has been with her now-husband for a total of 37 years. The pair have two sons.
She always has fresh linen in her house
Stylists tend to have a lot of sheets, and Julia says she always has fresh linens in her house.
“My bed is just like my throne. I just love my bed a lot because I’m not in it very often. So, when I am, it needs to feel totally luxurious,” she began. “So, my big thing is we do the fresh sheets once a week and everyone in the house gets fresh sheets. It’s Fresh Sheet Wednesdays.”
There are two colours Julia doesn’t like
Despite having a bold colour aesthetic, there are two colours Julia doesn’t use: “I don’t do red and I don’t do purple.” The reason is purely a matter of taste, with Julia conceding that she does occasionally do a plum or cherry red.
Her star sign is cancer
It might surprise people that Julia, who is so vibrant and ongoing on screens, would describe herself as a little “reclusive”. She says she needs to recharge her social battery at home, a trait she shares with her zodiac sign: Cancer.
“I’m a little crab, a Cancerian,” she shared on The Edit podcast. “[I want] to crawl back home, and be in my space, with my people, my stuff and my things, and it makes me feel really secure and happy.”
Learn more about Julia Green on her episode of The Edit podcast. Watch on YouTube or listen on your chosen podcast platform.
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