If you’ve ever stood in your living room and felt nothing, this one’s for you. Stylist, author and TV reno judge Julia Green joins Editor Elle Lovelock to talk about building a home that feels like an autobiography, not a catalogue spread. She went from “peddling drugs” (pharmaceuticals) for 17 years in a job she hated to styling shoots, closing her beloved store and now judging My Reno Rules, all while raising a family and painting every available surface in colour.
Julia is funny and unfiltered about the gap between how interiors look on TV and how they actually feel to live in. She talks about growing up with a mum who let her paint her bedroom walls on a whim, decking out her first flat with no money but a lot of ingenuity, and why she’ll always choose “considered chaos” over safe beige. There’s career whiplash, there’s grief for past chapters, and there’s the quiet joy of realising your house doesn’t have to be perfect to feel like home, it just has to feel like you.
“The whole time I did it, I hated it, and I just can’t believe I’m saying this loud and in public!”
Julia Green
We go behind the scenes of My Reno Rules: judging alongside Neale Whitaker and Simon Cohen, and discover what really happens when communication breaks down on a reno show. Julia explains why she can’t do white‑on‑white (“I’d last two seconds”), how she thinks about colour as “deliberate chaos” and how she furnished her first apartment with basically no budget, just a sharp eye and a willingness to hunt.
Julia, an art enthusiast and owner of Greenhouse Interiors, also talks us through her best tips to style art in your home, her family life, and also how often she washes her sheets.
“I realised very quickly that I could actually have a side hustle of having an online business.”
Julia Green
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