April 26, 2026 • 52 mins
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.
Moments you’ll hear
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Julia deadpanning that she used to “peddle drugs” (legally) in pharma for nearly two decades, hating every minute, before a stranger buying her couch told her she was in the wrong job and handed her a Vogue photographer’s business card.
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The chaos‑magic timing of going into labour four hours after that conversation and only circling back to the card at the end of maternity leave, a week before she was meant to return to corporate life.
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The “I’ve got a new job, I’m a stylist tomorrow” conversation with her husband, despite having no idea what the day rate was and only a Home Beautiful style brief to go on.
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Childhood bedrooms that changed colour constantly, a mum who let her paint the walls as often as she liked, and the lesson that home is something you’re allowed to experiment with, not preserve in glass.
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Julia explaining why she can’t do white‑on‑white (“I’d last two seconds”) and how she thinks about colour as “deliberate chaos” - surprise without visual shock.
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How she furnished her first apartment with basically no budget, just a sharp eye and a willingness to hunt, and why she’s now the stylist who tells people, “Do you really need that?” instead of pushing more stuff.
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Behind the scenes of My Reno Rules: judging alongside Neale Whitaker and Simon Cohen, trying to keep two strangers’ styles coherent in one house, and what really happens when communication breaks down on a reno show.
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The emotional side of closing her much‑loved store, stepping into a new TV chapter, and figuring out what kind of home she wants to come back to at the end of it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is an our media podcast. I only really knew
how to do color. I mean, God forbid, if you
ever gave me a white or white room, I just
will last two seconds in. It's coming from me. I'm
the purveyor of beautiful things, and I should be telling
everyone to buy all of it. But I am the
girl that says, do you really need that? Yeah? I
(00:26):
wasn't planning to confess that today, but anyway, you got
that one out of me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's see what else working again. This episode is brought
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curated by OZ Design, sharing life with you since nineteen
(00:52):
seventy nine. Welcome back to the Edit, the show about
your Style and Your Sanctuary, where we step inside the home,
habits and headspaces of the people who help us live better.
Today's guest is someone I've been so looking forward to meeting.
She's a stylist, creative director, author, retailer, and now a
(01:12):
TV Renault Show judge. Julia Green has built a career
around spaces that feel warm, layered and deeply personal. Through
style and collaborations, and her distinctive, creative voice. She's inspired
thousands of people to think differently about the homes that
they live in. But right now, Julia's entering a new chapter.
She's stepping onto television screens as a judge on my
(01:35):
Reno Rules, and she's also navigating a major shift in
her business after recently closing the doors on her much
loved retail shop. So today we're talking about the evolution
of a design career, what really happens behind the scenes
of a Renault show, And later Julia takes us on
a sensory tour of her own home. Julia Green, Welcome
(01:56):
to the edit.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thanks Elle Love Locke. It's good to see you in person.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know what a treat we have been in touch for.
We're just working out fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Fifteen years and how we've actually not met physically and
that time is insane? Is it not?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Too? Well? Thanks for coming over.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So design expert, retailer, TV star.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know about the star, but but I am
on the show this year.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Why don't you tell us all about who is Julia Green?
From the beginning?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
How long have we got? I must admit my entry
into the industry as far from conventional. I think it's
a story that resonates with a lot of people because
for me, I never even knew there was such a
world as interiors. I didn't know there were jobs as
an interior stylist. None of this was even remotely in
my full thought because I actually used to pedal drugs
(02:52):
as in leaders.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I, we're very open minded here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You need to be with meel, So let's set the scene.
I spent seventeen years in pharmaceutical land, and I did
and ended up running sales and marketing teams in that
time with some of the big guys. So it was
not something I ever thought i'd do. I was literally
halfway through a UNI degree and felt like I was
a very poor student and opened the paper up one
(03:19):
day and said I need a job. And someone said,
would you like a car and a lot of money,
and I've said yes, please, So I applied for that job.
So that's that's for the kiddies listening. That's not the
way to apply for a job, but that's what I did,
and lo and behold, I was one of the youngest
executives ever employed into that industry back then. So my
job was to pitch and sell medicine, conventional medicine to
(03:41):
GPS surgeons and specialists.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Gosh, how did you learn helindo? Or I mean you
strike me as a natural saleswoman.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, I think I was definitely better at sales than
the science. But that was more. That was half the battle.
So the science you just just had to double down
and study hard.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You have to know what you're saying, Oh, you really.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do, and they ask really tricky questions just to find
out if you actually do know what you're on about.
So there was no bluffing your way through it. You
studied the science and learned it, or you would just
absolutely drown.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So a lot point, did you go, I've had enough
of Look the.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Whole time I did it, I hated it, and I
just can't believe I'm saying this loud and in public.
It was the most arduous seventeen years of my life
because I'd never set out to be anyone. Carving a
career in science wasn't even my jam. But I also
didn't I actually thought I was starting out to be
a lawyer, So like, is that what you were doing?
(04:38):
He was doing arts to transfer into law, and I've
got the transfer, and then I went, I'm just going
to take a six month break and save some cash
so I can actually do the next part, which I
didn't do because I ran away with drugs. So anyway,
the drug lauding came to a very sudden end, actually
because I was heavily pregnant with my second child and
(05:00):
obviously about to start maternity leave and a man came
to the door who was buying a couch from me
from eBay. I had one of those crazy I'm going
to sell everything in my house because I had three
minutes to live within it on maternity leave. And he
came to collect the couch to buy, and from the
moment he walked in, I felt really uncomfortable because he
was like his eyes were everywhere all over the room,
(05:22):
and I'm like, oh god, this is really weird. And
then he said no, it really made me feel unnerved.
And I said to him, he must have watched that
I was a bit nervous, and he said, oh, sorry, sorry,
your house is beautiful, Like, who do are you a stylist?
And I said what's that because I didn't know there
were jobs of people called stylists and he said, ah, ah, sorry,
(05:44):
I just assumed you were like an anterior stylist, and
I said, no, I sell drugs. And then he said,
you're in the wrong job and handed a card over
and he was a freelance photographer for Vogue at the time,
and he said, you are on completely the wrong planet, girl.
You should not be doing drugs. You should be you
should be in interiors. And I, honestly I was having it.
(06:06):
I had the baby four hours later, Oh my god, card,
and that conversation was just something that was completely forgotten. Well, yes, later,
but the card that I was like, thanks, shoved it
in a drawer. Help having a baby off, I went.
It really wasn't until the end of that whole maternity
leave that I realized I had a week before I
(06:28):
was due to go back to corporate land and this newborn,
beautiful little boy, and I'm like, I just can't do it.
What happens if I rang that man and find out
what what a stylist is and maybe I can be that.
Yeah that sounds good. Yeah, So I rang him and
he said, there's a job tomorrow for Home Beautiful. Your
(06:48):
church job ever was Home Beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I didn't know that. Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is. So you can imagine the conversation with my
husband that night when he comes home and he says,
how was you day? And I said great, I've got
a new job. And he'said, what aren't you going You're
going back next week? And I said, no, I'm being
a stylist tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you have any details around it? Did you know
how much it would pay, or did you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
How Christmas freelance? It was just it was just this
one one form that was talking about the style guide,
the style brief, which was like we like our flowers
to be picked and relaxed and all the things we
still do. Yes, no, no, nothing's changed in the department,
which is kind of reassuring. My husband just said, so,
what do you know what you'll be doing? And I said, well,
not really and he said, right, you've got a new
(07:33):
job and you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Great, Julia, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Anywhay off I went and so embarrassed to admit this,
but turned up in my corporate outfit like suit, jacket,
high heels. I didn't know what I was doing. So
apparently going to be in a nice house making a
house look pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Let's share with everyone, what do you actually wear to
style a house? Shit?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh gosh, just jeans and runners in a dirty old singlet. Yeah. No,
it could even be my active wear from arties that morning,
depending on what mood I'm in. No, it's anything that
you're happy to ruin. Basically, you're not in your suit
in your high heels. No, but I was. So I
learned very quickly that day that the hills were kicked
off and I was bare feet and I was climbing
trees putting fairy lights around trees for some particular event
(08:18):
that Home Beautiful were doing. So that's where it began.
And from that day that crew said can you come
back tomorrow? Just I literally I've been on a treadmill.
I have not got off that treadmill ever since. So
naturally I never went back to pharmaceuticals. Amazing, And in
that forward fifteen sixteen years, I've turned my hand to
everything that you can kind of do in this industry.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So when did you start your own business apart I
mean freelance is a business, yeah yeah, but when did
you set up Greenhouse Interiors?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Greenhouse almost came instantaneously or you know, alongside the job,
because as you would know when you're propping for shoots,
you know, you're on the hunt for all these beautiful, interesting,
amazing objects or you know, interesting works to make those
spaces feel really considered and layered and beautiful, and so
I would spend I took that part really seriously, and
(09:08):
I was in all sorts of places at the time
that not everybody was in and finding these incredible artists
and boutique makers, and realized really quickly that there was
a gap for that. I mean, you can certainly shop
at all of the mainstream places where you can go
off the beaten track and find gorgeous vintage wears things
from France and Italy. So that's what I did, and
(09:30):
I realized very quickly that I could actually have a
side hustle of having an online business where I would
be using those things as props and then selling them
after because I'd have beautiful imagery, I would have great
behind the scenes footage. So that kind of started at
the same time, and that that side of the business
went gangbusters with the online side of things, and then
(09:52):
the styling went gangbusters, and I was literally spread into
was never home. Yeah. I had an assistant and one
assistant and she's still with me today, so that's really yeah.
I just took her to Morocco for a long service leave.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Love you, Kim, if you're listening. So she's amazing. She's
definitely what I need in my crazy brain. She keeps
it all together.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So tell me about Morocco because this is another part,
another string to the bow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I know, well, Morocco is a magical part of the
world if you haven't been. And we with my colleague
or I suppose somebody that does the same thing as
me up here in Sydney, John O Fleming and I
we do Moroccan tours together. So we basically take twelve
lucky women on the carpet right of their life. It
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is insane what we do. It's otherworldly. So virtually from
the moment they get off the plane, they don't have
to think. We just say, leave your brain in your
suitcase and we'll take care of you. And from there
we do beautiful private read rooftop dinners, We do garden tours.
We spend time in Eave Saint Lawren's house. We we
(11:00):
go glamping in the desert and swim in lippools in
the desert. Just overlooking all of the mountains.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh my gosh, we.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Eat wis shop, shop, shop shop. We do a lot
of great things.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Do they tell you why they book these trips with you?
Is it all different reasons?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It really is. It's such a mix, But I think
the resounding sentiment that comes out of it is that
it's a far flung place that's known for its beautiful,
unbridled love of color. But it's Africa, and it's a
long way and it's got that reputation probably that it's
not the place you would travel on your own. So
for them, I think there's a degree of safety in numbers.
(11:39):
But I think because we've been doing the tours for
a decade now, I think that there's just a lot
of trust in the process of all the stuff that
the back end stuff that we've done to make sure
it is the luxurious, you know, bucket list of their lifetime.
And they don't have to think about a thing, they
don't have to do a thing. We even order their
(11:59):
food with all their really requirements in mind. Everybody's it's
the most individually catered for event, Like everybody's wish list
is ticked by the end.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
One of the girls in the office, is going on
your next trip.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
In a pro it's in the one coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yes, goodness, so excited, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, so excited.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I know it is really exciting. It's naturally, you know,
the world state at the moment is kind of you know,
a little bit of a left, a little bit of
a cloud on a lot of overseas for long haul
travel anyway, But time for some joy. It's really time
to fill your cup with happy and there's their cups
will be overflowing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So so, Julia, you have quite a distinct personal style
that we see through your work, and knowing that you
travel to Morocco and that you are based just outside
of Melbourne, is that right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I live in Bow and Heads yet it's a little
bit of a hike out of Melbourne, but worth it,
beach side.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And worth worth it. Where does your inspiration come from?
What formed your look?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's a good question. I feel like there's quite a
few influences, but we have to start with the obvious
in the beginning, which is my mother. So my mother's
a really informative part of every fabric of my being.
And I grew up in a house with a riot
of color, like I'm talking like nobody else's house, and
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every kid as little kids would come home with the
backpacks on, and the front door would fling open, and
Mum would have decided that day to cover a whole
couch in pot pink call drawer. I'd have a disco
ball flying from the ceiling with Blondie blaring from the
record player, a cute little Olivia Newton john lycra happening,
and she will have painted all the walls bright green.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's just one day. It doesn't fall far from So
I was very.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Used to constant change of style and pattern and mix
on pattern on pattern. I just thought that's the way
people lived. So when I would go to other friends' houses,
I was really surprised that, oh gosh, this is a
very white house. Oh I'm not used to this.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You don't change it ever, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Because every day, like I was even allowed to paint
on my walls in the bedroom. So you know, there
was a lot of personal expression permitted and encouraged. And
my mum's a nurse, so she's actually quite sciency, but
she just had this crazy creative flare that would just
come out in every shape and form in the home.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What colors were your bedrooms growing up?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
They changed all the time. That's that's the whole point,
you know. I did have a pink bedroom for about
a year, which was the longest I ever wearded down
to one color. But I was literally changing the color
of those walls all the time. Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So did you do that as well? Moving out of home?
Was that something that you took with you straight away?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So like you know, I'm talking because I am a dinosaur,
like I'm talking back when I'm when I moved out
of home, everybody was really intrigued by this apart that
I took because I literally managed to deck it out
no money, not a cent to my name, but just
knew what to get, where to get it, and how
(15:08):
to do it. And that's all my mother. She just
taught me all of that, that was very much a
part of her. But then obviously leaning right into the
love of color. Then post you know, fast forward seventeen
years years later to this industry. I only really knew
how to do color. I mean, God forbid, if you
ever gave me a white on white room, I just
would last two seconds in it. And I appreciate it
(15:31):
and I love it. Yeah, and it's not like I
dress in really bright colors. I actually love all colors
with equal measure, and I'll lean into all the earthy colors.
But there is something joyous about the clever use of
pops of color. And that's how I'd like to think
that my styling has evolved. I like eclectic, I like fun,
(15:52):
I like surprise, and I don't want to walk into
a room and just be I want to walk in
and let my eye take a crazy journey and be
excited by not knowing where to look next. So I
think that has kind of molded my style, and that's
probably I'm always looking to replicate that in a home
because I think people love the journey of it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So in interiors, do you think there's a difference between
the element of surprise and shock? That's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
L Yes, I do. Now I'm looking I'm looking for considered,
considered pops of color. I'm looking for I'm looking for
chaos that is deliberate chaos, as opposed to just let's
just throw it all in and see what lands. No,
there's definitely method in the madness of getting that kind
of styling right, and some people will cross that line.
(16:44):
And I'll be the first to tell them if they do.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well, let's go with that. As a judge on the
new TV show My Reno Rules, how do you deliver
your opinions to contestants or how about let's set it
up tell people what you're allowed to say about the show?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh okay. The show is very exciting because it's the
first time in television history that the public are actually
able to win a house and there's two of them
up for grabs, so it's insane. Has never had a
prize like it. It is wild, it really is. So
that's a very exciting advancement. And I think you know,
(17:26):
we've all seen the Home Reno shows over the years,
and of course hats off to all of them. I
think it's just testament to the fact that people want
to know more about home now. Thank god they do.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Australians can't get enough.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We love it in Australia, don't we. So this one's
great because it's just got a different format. So it's
not only the homes up for grabs, which is obviously
their most exciting part for the public, but the format
of the actual show with two contestants that actually are
working within each home means there's got to be a
lot of love shared between the two of them, so
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they've got to make sure that house looks consistent at
the end and it's not done by two separate people.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh I see, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And that is interesting quite a twist.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's hard enough merging your style with your partners with
a stranger.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
One hundred percent. So that's from a reality television perspective,
I think people need to strap in for some really
interesting conversations. But also I feel like it's really educational
because you know, when teams might not talk, you'll see
what happens when things go wrong visually, and we as
judges will be absolutely pointing those things out. So I
(18:38):
feel like it's it's just gone the next level. It's
just the next step up and I think the Australian
audience are ready for it. I think they're going to
really love it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Share with us. Who are the other judges.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
They are the most gorgeous humans. I absolutely struck gold
with these two. So Neil Whittaker, who obviously is you know,
design icon, we love, we love, who could not love?
He's just the most delightful man. And Simon Cohen, who
is a bias advocate.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I also love Simon.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Simon is I have to tell you one of the
funniest men I have ever met in my entire life
could really absolutely moonlight as a comedian and just the
kind of sweetest human as well. So I felt flanked
by these amazing men the whole time, and the banter
between us all.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, what's the rapport? Like?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I think it's hysterical because who would know, right, But gosh,
Channel seven obviously had figured out in chemistry of who
would work with who. We all just bounce off each
We disagree, we agree, we hug, we cry, all we
do all of it and we didn't know none of
us knew each other before.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Really again, is it like when you first met? Was
it all very polite and hello, how do you do well?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess so, But I mean it doesn't take long
on TV sets. You become pretty close with people pretty
quickly because you were within confined, so there wasn't really
an option not to like each other, not that I
was ever worried we wouldn't, but I didn't expect to
leave loving them, and I did. I've had a place
in my heart for both, Yes, beautiful people and a
(20:13):
really good show. I think, a good format, you know,
fantastic prize pool at the end, and we all loved it.
And all we want now is for Adrian Putelli to say,
let's do it again, because you listening Adrian.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Adrian is the guy who he has bought houses on
other renovation shows, and on this one he's supplied the houses.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yes, so he bought the houses and now he's giving
them away. So he's a very generous man. Yeah. So look,
Adrian is he's a billionaire and he's in the best
place ever to be offering back to the Australian community
generously as he is. So we need more Adrians in
the world.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, what is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It like being on a TV show? Because it comes
across as being so glamorous? Is glamorous?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think that's hysterical. Look, people might even look in
at styling as glamorous and so true, you and I
both know there's nothing glamorous about being an interior stylist.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I tell people. For us, it's like moving house every month.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That is exactly what I say to glorified furniture removals,
aren't we it's hard yacker? Now, look the difference with
television was that I found it interesting. The veterans beside
me had been in the industry for a long time,
so they would be used to the treatment. But the
fact that I had to just stand there and there's
someone fluffing my face and my clothes and my hair,
and then I'm asked an opinion and I give it,
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and then they're like, thank you, missus Green, and there's
your card to go home. I mean, I felt like
I was very well looked after. No, it's not glamorous.
There's a lot of waiting around, there's a lot of
you know. I mean, I'm good on the fly, and
I kind of rise to the challenge of being put
on the spot. But at the same time, you know,
you'd have a little bit of nerves around what am
(22:02):
I about to walk into, what am I going to say?
What if I don't like it? You know, because I
am not always overly diplomatic. I try to be, but
sometimes words fall out and I'm like, I can't put
them back inside her head exactly exactly. But it was fine.
It was fine, and I don't think it's glamorous, and
(22:23):
I don't think anyone on that show got ahead of
themselves or has, you know, inflated egos. Thank god, because
none of us would survive that. It was a really
wonderful cast of wonderful people. There's hundreds of people behind
those shows. It's not just about the three of us
and the contestants. There's a host and they were all fab.
(22:44):
I've got nothing but brilliant things to say about my
little fan TV. Yeah, and I'd love to do it again.
It was fab.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I've seen a few clips of my Reno Rules on
social media, and something that really strikes me is the
emotion that the contestants feel or are showing. Yes, it
looks like there are some pretty big surprises that come up,
and I know you can't reveal it all, but what
is it like being on set and seeing these people
(23:14):
whose lives are going to be so impacted by this show.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's really hard to sort of separate the emotions sometimes
because you know, these people have come in and they've
had nine days or whatever, however many days it is
to literally do this backbreaking work. They're on limited budgets,
they're up against it. Renovating is hard enough without the
constraints of worrying about what other contestants are doing, worrying
about how the color is going to look from start
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to finish.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
At the end, your away from your loved ones.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
All of that. So there's all of that that is
running through the back of your head. But then we're
paid to judge what we see and so we have
to be honest about that, and I'm nothing but honest.
If I like it, I like it, and if I
don't like it, I don't like it. The beauty of
the show was that it is all about, you know,
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renovating to get the best outcome, but knowing at the
end that they were going to be given away. I mean,
I think that that's the whole point of difference with
my reno rules. You know, this is not like sign
up for auction houses. This is like somebody is going
to get lucky enough to have the keys to this
house and it is done within an inch of its life.
So that's the difference. Yeah, But the contestants were really great.
(24:27):
They were We didn't have a lot to do with them.
We were often removed and put in separate rooms, but
we got to watch them, you know obviously in our exchanges. Yes,
and they were all mostly not from renovating backgrounds.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Really.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, there were people from all sorts of backgrounds and
they gave it a red hot crack. So hats off
for the f that they put in. I mean they
really tried hard.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, And that's the thing is that you give things
a go, you hope for the best. And that's also
something you've done over the past five years. I'll say,
with your retail space, yes, and to long yes, tell
us about that journey.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well that's timely, isn't it. Yesterday we chose to shut
the doors. So that's a bit of a it's mixed feelings,
to be honest. I mean, it's a sad thing to
say we're shutting the doors to a flagship store, which
all bias aside, was one of the most beautiful stores
in our country. But I think what's happened, and anyone
in small business will tell you the same story, is
(25:28):
that consumer behavior has just changed so dramatically, and I
guess Covid is to blame. We all worked out we
could sit on our couch and buy whatever we wanted
for our houses and if we didn't like it, probably
send it back, right, So that's really shifted the way
people buy and throw in all the other extraneous factors
such as, I mean, we had a fire, we had
(25:50):
two floods. Did you design the shuds in the shop? Then?
Had we now have a war? We have drugs raging
outside of our front door. We had someone pitch a
tenth for six weeks and we couldn't remove them. You're
caidding no, And so all of these extraneous factors really
are time consuming and take away from the experience that
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we were trying to offer, which was calming, in touch
and feel all of these beautiful things. Instead, we just
found that the consumer was watching all of our social
media content and saying, thanks, I'll just buite it from
my couch. Really like your videos. What are we doing
with these doors open? And paying all this money and rent?
And so it was almost inevitable for us that it
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was good at the time. We didn't lose money, it
wasn't a disaster, but just we've decided to pivot and
really lean into the online side of our business, which
is very, very strong. Yeah, I think it had shocked
people to know that ninety percent of our business is online.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean incredible, it's a lot. Yeah, and it makes
perfect sense then why that's where you focus.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And the focus now is really interesting. It's almost like
a full circle moment where I'm coming back to now
hiring really inspiring locations again like I did at the start.
So I'm up here, Litchal. I'm on the Central Coast
next week in a ridiculously good house shooting all of
our art and homewares, And so nothing's changed from our
artists perspective. We still represent all of the same beautiful
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boutique makers and artists. We're just leaning into the strength
of the economy, which is online and not having to
give so much to a space that was unfortunately up
against it with the elements of course.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, and for everyone who has to have a look,
we'll put a link to the store in the show notes.
Please do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, we'll miss it. Well, it was such a beautiful space,
but all I know is there are loads more beautiful
spaces out there waiting for us.
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to a different part of the edit. So we do
this thing where we like our guests to take us
on a sensory tour of their home. Okay, So I
will guide you through like a meditation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I do this every night before bed.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Don't worry, You'll be doing most of the talking. Okay, Okay.
If I were to come over to your place and
you were to open the front door, what would I see?
So tell me about your home? What does it look like?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Interestingly, the home I live in, and I've been there
for eleven years, which is the longest I've ever lived anywhere.
I used to move every year without a life. I
was the most just bored. What's next? Another house to
renovate and change and style, much to my husband's horror.
Now I'm really loving where I am. So you would
(29:18):
arrive and you would be able to smell the beach,
so there is, and the roar of the ocean is
often really loud. So you walk up to my front
door and it's really oversized. Nobody can get over the
size of my front door for just a humble little house.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Really, yeah, did you put that in or what.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
It was there? And it's one of my favorite things
about the house. It's just so intriguing. This to everyone's like,
what's behind that giant door? And then I opened the door.
And to be fair, it is a right of color. Yes, yes,
I'm probably yeah, I'm probably HARKing back to the days
of what my mother taught me. But they're pops of color.
They're not You're not walking into like a saturated k
(29:58):
full of color on the walls as such. But what
you will face straight away is beautiful smells. I always
have gorgeous room sprays because I really like to walk in.
I want all of my senses to say I'm home
when I open. I've got a dip tik. I think
it's called number seventy four. Beautyeah, it's really beautiful. It's
really kind of It's just the perfect amount of I'm
(30:21):
home smell for me. Then there's always music, paying always tunes.
So I loved you play.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What are we listening to?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Really eclectic? So my youngest son is a DJ, so
he he'll have a mix of dook on, which is
really cool. He plays great music. I really love his
sense of sound. But then it could be mixed in
with anything from like just chill playlists to opera. It
could be anything. My mother's a singer, so like we're
quite musical, and so we've been we face all of
(30:50):
the genres. So but then from the door, so it's
all very natural materials. There's lots of like cathedral timber ceilings,
a mix of concrete because the previous owners were concretes,
so we've got a concrete floor, lots of glass looking
out to an internal courtyard which is a green mosaic
tiled pool like a Moroccan pool. Yes, because of my
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love of Morocco. And then I would say it's humble,
but and it doesn't look in the traditional sense expensive,
but it looks really well loved and thought through, and
it's got everyone walks in and I watch shoulders drop.
It's really interesting what that psychology is when you walk
into a home that feels good, and I think things
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are all the things that you would hope for someone
that's done the job. As long as I have such
as scale and style and color, like where it sits
and what it sits with, they're all considered. And I
have tons of artwork, like just so much interesting artwork.
And that's what loses people Like I could be in
(31:54):
the middle of a conversation and I watch them in
their eyes of that there goes another five minutes, like
they've found the John Olson all that. You know, they'll
find something that what is that?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yes? Have you always collected art?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I was given one thousand dollars for my eighteenth birthday
and I was allowed to either have a party or
buy a gift for myself, and I bought a John
Blackman for a thousand dollars. Clever not been clever. I
drove past it every day on the way to my
pub job at UNI, and it was this beautiful butterfly
and it was all my favorite colors. And I looked
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at it every day on that journey for three months
and it was still there when I turned eighteen, and
I said to Mum, I think you'll support me on
this one. I'm dropping every single cent of that one
thousand dollars on an artwork.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And that started and you go everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, And I feel like I've collected artwork ever since,
probably did even when I was little, not really being
conscious of it.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Do you move them around or do you put them
in a spot and that's where they stay.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
A little bit of moving around, not a lot of
moving around. Used to be home a lot more, used
to have a lot more time. Yeah, these days, you know,
I'm kind of missing an action six out of seven days.
So my one day at home is so sacrisanct. But
I don't go moving art. I've been moving art and
everybody else's dous. It's a week. I'm like, you can
stay there. No, I just hang out with my kids,
(33:12):
my dog, the beach. You know, we cook in my
mum comes over. It's all very wholesome.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So yeah, I have to have that being near the beach.
Are you shoes off or shoes on? Shoes off?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, shoes on, and really lean into the
beach side of things with you know, the smells and
the we have strange We have a little buggy, like
a little golf buggy because we actually live at the
back of a golf course.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So we go through this cute little path and pull
up with like, you know, the surfboards of dog all
of it, and then climber June and we're on a
private beach. So it's that is so sae like, Wow, Yeah,
that's why I haven't moved. It's so hard to find
that lifestyle anywhere else. I feel like I've just let
out a really big secret. But that's yeah, it's a
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really special part of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, I have a list of quick fire questions. The
first thing I would like to know is what's the
first word that comes to mind when I say home love? Oh,
that's so beautiful. The next question is do you have
a chaotic room or drawer that you would never show
(34:25):
on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Absolutely one? P I have more than one? Is that
what is travesty? My kitchen cupboards are not something to
be proud of. It's kind of just shoved in. Everything
is away though, Like my house is very neat and ordered,
but it's not behind the doors. I'm a bit chaotic
behind the doors. A lot of doors, laundry doors, kitchen doors.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, so the house feels serene, just.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Oh, I can't have things like I actually am what
most ocd about having things on the floor or around me.
They all have a home, it's just inside the home home,
it's a little chaos.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Okay, that's fair, that's I think that's most of us to.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Confess that today. But anyway, you gotta let one out
of me.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Let's see what else we can get. So one thing
that you always have fresh in the house sheets. Not
heard that answer before, really fresh? It seems so obvious.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh gosh, that's like my bed is just like my throne.
I just it's I love my bed a lot because
I'm not in it very often, so when I am,
it needs to be feeling like totally luxurious. So my
big thing is we do the fresh sheets once a
week and everyone in the house gets fresh sheets. And
it's fresh sheets Wednesday, and we all know, and we
(35:42):
all say to each other before to go to wait
to get to bed tonight. It's going to be so
exciting Wednesday. We all really get, even the kids fresh eats,
because how's the beaches in our house? Kind of on
the floor?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And do you have a robovac?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Won't I really need to invest in one of those.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I'm still a.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Good old fashioned You know what are the cordless ones?
You know what I call? Yeah, yes, I need a robo.
I need one of those desperately.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Do you have a decor regret? It doesn't have to
be this house, but anywhere you've lived, do you look
back and go, oh, I wish I didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, it's funny. I remember thinking, say, ten years later,
after buying the red couch that the Vogue man bought
from eBay, thinking why did I buy that? And more
to the point, why did he buy it? There was
a double whammy there. I'm like, God, two of us
have got that wrong. Anyway, he took it, he was happy,
He's going to a holiday house for him. I'm like, okay,
(36:45):
maybe that's forgivable. And it was a red couch and
I don't do red and I don't do purple. If
I do red, have it it's like a certain plum.
It's it's a certain it's a cherry kind of red.
Actually I will lean into that. But this was like
a fire engine red. And I don't know what possessed
me to this day tonight, but if I had it,
of my one regret in my purchasing has led me
(37:07):
to a whole new career path. I would never have
crossed that man's path.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I think what's worrying is the fact that both of
you are in style and design, and you both at
some point bought the Red couch.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's still it still troubles me. I'm deeply troubled by that.
I don't know why, but anyway, Yeah, the Red couch
is no longer mine.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
So You've mentioned about the Diptek scent in your home,
but I would like to know candles. Yes, are they
always lit only for guests?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Don't have a lot of candles?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Does that surprise you?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah? It does?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, No, I don't. I don't have a lot of candles.
It sounds like I'm plugging dip Teek and I have
absolutely no investing interest in this brand at all other
than I like their scent. I do have a few
tea candles around the space, but I predominantly create my
mood with beautiful soft lighting.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, And I've already got a fragrance like the smell
that we have in the home, so I don't need
to complicate it with other smells over the top of that.
If that makes sense for candles so I'm pretty purest
when it comes to that. But I have in our
lounge alone, I would have five points of soft lighting
of ambient lighting.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh yeah, we had Neil Whitaker on recently Land he
visited loves a lamp, loves the lamp, but turns out
so does everyone.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, it's just such a clever trick to create that
beautiful soft ambience that everybody again, the shoulders drop, everybody
feels relaxed. You know, there's no bright lights seven or
seven flying in your eyes. It's good, it's really good.
So yes, that's my trick. But yet I'm not a
big candle person. And even when people buy them for
(38:44):
me for my birthday, I'm always thank you so much.
That'll be in one of my chaotic drawers. Oh yeah,
I'd probably just need to look how many you're in there.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So not for anybody who's listening.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Don't buy it. Don't buy me a candle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you splurge on eyes?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I splurge on food.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
So oh do you love to Are you a cook?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I'm not a good cook.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I'm a cook.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I mean I'm a mum, so I have to prepare
food to you hungry boys. But if I'm going to
do it, I might as well do it with tasty,
delicious ingredients. And I think we're really fortunate in Australia
to have such great produce. So like, if I'm going
to cook, I mean yesterday before I came, or actually
Sunday night, I cooked up this amazing chicken preserve lemon
(39:28):
and green olive tajean so that came from my Moroccan classes,
and the family were like, wow, this is the best
one you've made, mum. So that was good. But yeah, look,
I mean, I just cook with good quality produce.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm not I'm not an economical shopper. I'm not looking
to buy. Like if i'm I think our health is
super important, mental health and physical health. So for me,
if I'm going to blow money on anything, it'll be
somehow thrown at that, like if my kids need physio,
if I don't know, if we we need to talk
to a psychologist, all the things that cost money. Now,
(40:04):
i'd bombit there before things. Yes, my house is kind
of nice and I'm happy with it, and anything I
get given or I collect from here on in at
this stage of my life is beautiful and it's a keepsake,
but I don't need stuff, and some a bit anti stuff,
like I think.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
People buy homemakers buy.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's coming from me. I'm the purveyor of beautiful things,
and I should be telling everyone to buy all of it.
But I am the girl that says, do you really
need that?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Like that room's looking pretty good? Or if you just
took those three things away and put one thing instead.
I'm all about honesty and practicality, and.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
In that I think you are helping people buy what
they love. Yes, So it's it's shopping.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
We just don't need throwaway society stuff, you know, we
just don't. We just should really think through our decisions
a whole lot more carefully and spend the money ideally
once if you can get away with it, mike you
a little bit more. I mean outdoor furniture is the
one that I have this conversation most with because outdoor
furniture can be very very expensive, so expensive, so expensive,
(41:09):
But then if you do it once and you do
it properly, like I invested in this amazing outdoor table
and chairs when I first moved to the beach, and
I remember thinking that's almost like another mortgage and I know. Yeah,
and that outdoor table that I got from Tate is
still looking exactly as it did the day I moved in.
Nothing has changed, and so I'm like, that was a
(41:31):
really good investment. I'm not doing it again. No, I
like that mentality. I really try and encourage people to
do that.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I think so too. So what makes your home beautiful?
Speaker 1 (41:44):
It's definitely the souls within it. With the four people
that live in it have got such different personalities and
it's really such a it's such a mix, like we're
all so different and just get along so well. I
feel like we're very blessed. I've been with my husband
since I was fifteen, so I mean it's a ridiculously
(42:04):
it's a ridiculously long time. And now we even worked
it together so and have done for eight years.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
So, like we have to ask a cliche, I'll go on,
what's the secret.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, we have a lot of days where we don't
like each other. It's okay, and that's okay. It's okay too. Yeah,
So it's just being honest. Yeah, I think there is
a lot of love in our house.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I do.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
I think, you know, our boys are our best friends.
We actually all really like hanging out together. And I
just love the way our home is like a little
haven away from the bustle. And I love the fact
that when anyone visits, they no they're special, because I don't.
I'm not. I'm probably reasonably private compared to people think
I'm just this fun party girl or something. But I'm
(42:46):
actually really quite reclusive in my house. So if you're invited,
you're loved. Yeah, I think anyone that comes in feels
the love, and yeah, there's a lot there to give.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
So yeah, that's so true. I've heard from several of
our guests actually sometime on camera or off camera, people
who can come across as quite gregarious and charismatic or
maybe they are on TV, are actually introverts. Yeah, And
I think it's about it's how what recharges you.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
That's the word. It's very much the you know, recharging
at social battery, which mine runs overdrive. And I love
every second of it. But I do get to the
end of the day and I think, yeah, I need
to be now home with my little crab canceran wanting
to crawl back home, yeah, and be in my space
with my people, my things, my stuff, And it makes
me feel really secure and happy. So that's as simple as.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It is to round off here. We have a couple
of questions from our listeners. Good, so we do a
thing called room for Advice, okay, and that is we
have questions sent in and then we try and pair
the questions with the experts we have joined us in
our little home here on the edit. And I have
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a couple of questions about art, and I think they
will be perfect for you to answer, So let's see
how we go. Sure, the first question we have here
is from Mia, and she says, high home beautiful. I
love art, but I freeze when it comes to actually
buying it. I worry I'll choose the wrong piece or
something I'll get tired of. How do you know when
(44:17):
a piece of art is right for your home? Wow?
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Mia, that is really insightful. And if you're listening, you
are not alone. This is the consensus that I hear
every day. And it's actually sad because it's that moment
of freezing and not doing it that means they're staring
at their blank halls for another ten years. It's the
paralysis by analysis, you know that old chestnut exactly. So
(44:42):
there's a few things that will help you. For me,
first and foremost, when I look at an artwork and
it's speaking my name, and I'm talking full one hundred
percent seduction, like I have to have this in my life.
I don't know why, but it just is me and
it's coming home. You take it home because you will
always find a home for it. But if it's just
(45:04):
you know, not every single piece in your house is
going to have that level of sentimentality probably, you know,
not everything has the same equal value. So if you're
looking for a beautiful piece and you find one and
new lovers, my suggestion would be to do a couple
of things. The first one would be talk about the scale.
Let's make sure this thing fits in the space you're
(45:24):
planning to put it, because you can have a Picasso in,
you know, in the house, and if it's the wrong scale,
it can all just look terrible. So scale is everything,
and it really needs to be thought through from the outset.
So you could you could do good old fashioned tape
on the wall and stand back and look at it
to see how that spatially fits the space. We've got
(45:45):
a free three D RT app on our site, which
I think is genius, So people can download anything on
our site and to scale and to size, and it's
three D so you can even walk up to it
and see how far it is off the wall and
show perfectly on your wall. So all the guest works
taken out. So there are things like that, There are
(46:05):
services like that that are available that will really help
hold your hand so you're feeling more confident to do it.
I think once you've hit the scale and once you
know you love the piece and the colors are good,
then you're pretty safe to take it home and obviously
ask if there is an opportunity to return it if
there's any doubt whatsoever. We offer all of our clients
(46:26):
fourteen days because sometimes you need to sit with it
for seven days and go, yes, I'm loving it more
every day, or I just don't know, and that's okay.
It's okay to not know. So maya do your homework,
really do your research on the size. Come to our site,
have a look free Plug Greenhouse Interiors. We have over
five thousand artworks and there'll be something in there for everyone,
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I'm sure, and worst case, give me a call.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I love that, I mean, I hope that helps answer
your question. I mean it's fantastic advice.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Good.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
The next question we have is an email from Daniel.
So Daniel says, HIGHB I've started collecting art, but now
I don't know how to display it. Do I hang
pieces together as a gallery wall or spread them throughout
the house? And how do you stop it looking messy? Oh?
So it sounds like Daniel is buying with love.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah, Daniel's buying with love for sure. And who knows
what we've got in that little mix of our works there, right,
So it's hard to talk gallery walls or gallery hangs
when we can't visually see how it might be that
we would connect them in terms of the style and
the composition of the artwork. But what we can talk
about with hanging them is things like having a straight
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horizon line, so that regardless of the shape and the
length of the pieces or the orientation of the pieces,
they're sharing a horizon line and that will give symmetry.
Straight up.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
I didn't know that that is really smart.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Well, it just means if they're all hanging from the
same line across the wall, even if one starts here,
one falls down here, square one's rectangular. Yeah, they've got
a commonality and that in itself will make them look
like they would consider it and meant to be together. Yeah,
so that's one way. But should he bomb them all
in that or should he be spreading them around the house.
I don't know how many artworks he's got. I'm a
(48:16):
sucker for a gallery hang. I just love a combination
of works. I feel like it shows your confidence, yes,
of you and your home. So I feel like to
get it right. It's good old fashioned puzzles on the floor.
So you're going to have to be putting them all
together and working out down there how that could look
up there. That's quite a skill.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And what sorts of things do you look for when
you're putting artworks together in a puzzle on the floor? Yeap,
what are you looking for to see if it works together?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
I think before we even talk about that, it's more
important to identify with Daniel. Are you a minimalist or
are you a maximalist? I mean that may well dictate
the fact that you know what single punchy moments on
your walls is going to make it feel better for you? Yes, crazy,
busy eclectic gallery hangs? That are you know, Julia Green chaotic?
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That might send him in an absolute twist. I think
you've got to ask yourself, in the way you live
and in your own home, what makes you feel good
and what makes you feel calm, and how that's going
to translate into how you're going to hang your art work.
But once you figure that out, if you were to
do a gallery hang of multiple pieces, I'd be looking for,
for instance, they all probably ideally should have different frames.
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If they're all looking like they're in the same frames,
it's going to be looking like you tried to match
them all together at it. You need to make it
look like it's an honest mistake that gosh, you're clever,
but I'm behind all of that are like so many
cerebral moments that have killed you to get it to
look like it was a happy accident. It's a bit
like those beds we see in magazines, which is so
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beautifully made and everything's so casually draped and it looks like,
I don't know, someone's just had a shag, but no
one has. There's four hours that have been put into
getting bed to look like that.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
It is much easier making a straight fructured bed. Structured bed, yeah,
exactly the same principles apply with art. But I think
Daniel decides first up if he wants single moments, and
if he doesn't and he wants to hang them together,
look how he can make it feel like it was
you know, a bit of a risk, you know, and
mix some styles, mix some compositions. Maybe color is the commonality.
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Maybe each piece that's there has a thread of blue
or has a pop of red in the top left,
in the bottom right, and in the middle to connect
it together.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
So there are ways. But if you're not confident, like anything,
you engage an expert to do this for you. I mentally,
I go to a dentist because I don't know how
to do my own teeth. Well, I know how to
do my teeth, but not.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Clean my teeth.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
And we go to doctors because they will come to
an interior expert if you need help. That's okay, that's right,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Oh, Juliet, thank you for sharing all your expertise and
helping us today.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
I can't believe it's over. That's the fastest forty five
minutes of my entire life. Well, I could see you're
talking to you all day. I know what we can
off and keep going.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
It's been an absolute joy and I know that you
are just in the middle of whirlwind trips. So next
time you're in town, do come back. We'd love to
have you on the edge again.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And just thank you, thank you well. That was such
a pleasurable forty five minutes. I loved it. Thank you
very much for having me on well.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
There were a few surprises in there. I loved talking
to Julia about her journey from drug peddler to TV judge,
the evolution of her creative career, and what really makes
a house feel like home. And we'll be watching closely
when my Rino Rules hits our screens. If you've enjoyed
this episode, make sure you follow the edit for more
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everyone to buy all of it. But I am the
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seventy nine. Welcome back to the Edit, the show about
your Style and Your Sanctuary, where we step inside the home,
habits and headspaces of the people who help us live better.
Today's guest is someone I've been so looking forward to meeting.
She's a stylist, creative director, author, retailer, and now a
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TV Renault Show judge. Julia Green has built a career
around spaces that feel warm, layered and deeply personal. Through
style and collaborations, and her distinctive, creative voice. She's inspired
thousands of people to think differently about the homes that
they live in. But right now, Julia's entering a new chapter.
She's stepping onto television screens as a judge on my
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Reno Rules, and she's also navigating a major shift in
her business after recently closing the doors on her much
loved retail shop. So today we're talking about the evolution
of a design career, what really happens behind the scenes
of a Renault show, And later Julia takes us on
a sensory tour of her own home. Julia Green, Welcome
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to the edit.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thanks Elle Love Locke. It's good to see you in person.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know what a treat we have been in touch for.
We're just working out fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Fifteen years and how we've actually not met physically and
that time is insane? Is it not?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Too? Well? Thanks for coming over.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So design expert, retailer, TV star.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know about the star, but but I am
on the show this year.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Why don't you tell us all about who is Julia Green?
From the beginning?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
How long have we got? I must admit my entry
into the industry as far from conventional. I think it's
a story that resonates with a lot of people because
for me, I never even knew there was such a
world as interiors. I didn't know there were jobs as
an interior stylist. None of this was even remotely in
my full thought because I actually used to pedal drugs
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as in leaders.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I, we're very open minded here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You need to be with meel, So let's set the scene.
I spent seventeen years in pharmaceutical land, and I did
and ended up running sales and marketing teams in that
time with some of the big guys. So it was
not something I ever thought i'd do. I was literally
halfway through a UNI degree and felt like I was
a very poor student and opened the paper up one
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day and said I need a job. And someone said,
would you like a car and a lot of money,
and I've said yes, please, So I applied for that job.
So that's that's for the kiddies listening. That's not the
way to apply for a job, but that's what I did,
and lo and behold, I was one of the youngest
executives ever employed into that industry back then. So my
job was to pitch and sell medicine, conventional medicine to
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GPS surgeons and specialists.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Gosh, how did you learn helindo? Or I mean you
strike me as a natural saleswoman.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, I think I was definitely better at sales than
the science. But that was more. That was half the battle.
So the science you just just had to double down
and study hard.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You have to know what you're saying, Oh, you really.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do, and they ask really tricky questions just to find
out if you actually do know what you're on about.
So there was no bluffing your way through it. You
studied the science and learned it, or you would just
absolutely drown.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So a lot point, did you go, I've had enough
of Look the.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Whole time I did it, I hated it, and I
just can't believe I'm saying this loud and in public.
It was the most arduous seventeen years of my life
because I'd never set out to be anyone. Carving a
career in science wasn't even my jam. But I also
didn't I actually thought I was starting out to be
a lawyer, So like, is that what you were doing?
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He was doing arts to transfer into law, and I've
got the transfer, and then I went, I'm just going
to take a six month break and save some cash
so I can actually do the next part, which I
didn't do because I ran away with drugs. So anyway,
the drug lauding came to a very sudden end, actually
because I was heavily pregnant with my second child and
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obviously about to start maternity leave and a man came
to the door who was buying a couch from me
from eBay. I had one of those crazy I'm going
to sell everything in my house because I had three
minutes to live within it on maternity leave. And he
came to collect the couch to buy, and from the
moment he walked in, I felt really uncomfortable because he
was like his eyes were everywhere all over the room,
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and I'm like, oh god, this is really weird. And
then he said no, it really made me feel unnerved.
And I said to him, he must have watched that
I was a bit nervous, and he said, oh, sorry, sorry,
your house is beautiful, Like, who do are you a stylist?
And I said what's that because I didn't know there
were jobs of people called stylists and he said, ah, ah, sorry,
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I just assumed you were like an anterior stylist, and
I said, no, I sell drugs. And then he said,
you're in the wrong job and handed a card over
and he was a freelance photographer for Vogue at the time,
and he said, you are on completely the wrong planet, girl.
You should not be doing drugs. You should be you
should be in interiors. And I, honestly I was having it.
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I had the baby four hours later, Oh my god, card,
and that conversation was just something that was completely forgotten. Well, yes, later,
but the card that I was like, thanks, shoved it
in a drawer. Help having a baby off, I went.
It really wasn't until the end of that whole maternity
leave that I realized I had a week before I
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was due to go back to corporate land and this newborn,
beautiful little boy, and I'm like, I just can't do it.
What happens if I rang that man and find out
what what a stylist is and maybe I can be that.
Yeah that sounds good. Yeah, So I rang him and
he said, there's a job tomorrow for Home Beautiful. Your
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church job ever was Home Beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I didn't know that. Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is. So you can imagine the conversation with my
husband that night when he comes home and he says,
how was you day? And I said great, I've got
a new job. And he'said, what aren't you going You're
going back next week? And I said, no, I'm being
a stylist tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you have any details around it? Did you know
how much it would pay, or did you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
How Christmas freelance? It was just it was just this
one one form that was talking about the style guide,
the style brief, which was like we like our flowers
to be picked and relaxed and all the things we
still do. Yes, no, no, nothing's changed in the department,
which is kind of reassuring. My husband just said, so,
what do you know what you'll be doing? And I said, well,
not really and he said, right, you've got a new
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job and you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Great, Julia, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Anywhay off I went and so embarrassed to admit this,
but turned up in my corporate outfit like suit, jacket,
high heels. I didn't know what I was doing. So
apparently going to be in a nice house making a
house look pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Let's share with everyone, what do you actually wear to
style a house? Shit?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh gosh, just jeans and runners in a dirty old singlet. Yeah. No,
it could even be my active wear from arties that morning,
depending on what mood I'm in. No, it's anything that
you're happy to ruin. Basically, you're not in your suit
in your high heels. No, but I was. So I
learned very quickly that day that the hills were kicked
off and I was bare feet and I was climbing
trees putting fairy lights around trees for some particular event
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that Home Beautiful were doing. So that's where it began.
And from that day that crew said can you come
back tomorrow? Just I literally I've been on a treadmill.
I have not got off that treadmill ever since. So
naturally I never went back to pharmaceuticals. Amazing, And in
that forward fifteen sixteen years, I've turned my hand to
everything that you can kind of do in this industry.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So when did you start your own business apart I
mean freelance is a business, yeah yeah, but when did
you set up Greenhouse Interiors?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Greenhouse almost came instantaneously or you know, alongside the job,
because as you would know when you're propping for shoots,
you know, you're on the hunt for all these beautiful, interesting,
amazing objects or you know, interesting works to make those
spaces feel really considered and layered and beautiful, and so
I would spend I took that part really seriously, and
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I was in all sorts of places at the time
that not everybody was in and finding these incredible artists
and boutique makers, and realized really quickly that there was
a gap for that. I mean, you can certainly shop
at all of the mainstream places where you can go
off the beaten track and find gorgeous vintage wears things
from France and Italy. So that's what I did, and
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I realized very quickly that I could actually have a
side hustle of having an online business where I would
be using those things as props and then selling them
after because I'd have beautiful imagery, I would have great
behind the scenes footage. So that kind of started at
the same time, and that that side of the business
went gangbusters with the online side of things, and then
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the styling went gangbusters, and I was literally spread into
was never home. Yeah. I had an assistant and one
assistant and she's still with me today, so that's really yeah.
I just took her to Morocco for a long service leave.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Love you, Kim, if you're listening. So she's amazing. She's
definitely what I need in my crazy brain. She keeps
it all together.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So tell me about Morocco because this is another part,
another string to the bow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I know, well, Morocco is a magical part of the
world if you haven't been. And we with my colleague
or I suppose somebody that does the same thing as
me up here in Sydney, John O Fleming and I
we do Moroccan tours together. So we basically take twelve
lucky women on the carpet right of their life. It
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is insane what we do. It's otherworldly. So virtually from
the moment they get off the plane, they don't have
to think. We just say, leave your brain in your
suitcase and we'll take care of you. And from there
we do beautiful private read rooftop dinners, We do garden tours.
We spend time in Eave Saint Lawren's house. We we
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go glamping in the desert and swim in lippools in
the desert. Just overlooking all of the mountains.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh my gosh, we.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Eat wis shop, shop, shop shop. We do a lot
of great things.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Do they tell you why they book these trips with you?
Is it all different reasons?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It really is. It's such a mix, But I think
the resounding sentiment that comes out of it is that
it's a far flung place that's known for its beautiful,
unbridled love of color. But it's Africa, and it's a
long way and it's got that reputation probably that it's
not the place you would travel on your own. So
for them, I think there's a degree of safety in numbers.
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But I think because we've been doing the tours for
a decade now, I think that there's just a lot
of trust in the process of all the stuff that
the back end stuff that we've done to make sure
it is the luxurious, you know, bucket list of their lifetime.
And they don't have to think about a thing, they
don't have to do a thing. We even order their
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food with all their really requirements in mind. Everybody's it's
the most individually catered for event, Like everybody's wish list
is ticked by the end.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
One of the girls in the office, is going on
your next trip.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
In a pro it's in the one coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yes, goodness, so excited, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, so excited.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I know it is really exciting. It's naturally, you know,
the world state at the moment is kind of you know,
a little bit of a left, a little bit of
a cloud on a lot of overseas for long haul
travel anyway, But time for some joy. It's really time
to fill your cup with happy and there's their cups
will be overflowing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So so, Julia, you have quite a distinct personal style
that we see through your work, and knowing that you
travel to Morocco and that you are based just outside
of Melbourne, is that right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I live in Bow and Heads yet it's a little
bit of a hike out of Melbourne, but worth it,
beach side.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And worth worth it. Where does your inspiration come from?
What formed your look?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's a good question. I feel like there's quite a
few influences, but we have to start with the obvious
in the beginning, which is my mother. So my mother's
a really informative part of every fabric of my being.
And I grew up in a house with a riot
of color, like I'm talking like nobody else's house, and
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every kid as little kids would come home with the
backpacks on, and the front door would fling open, and
Mum would have decided that day to cover a whole
couch in pot pink call drawer. I'd have a disco
ball flying from the ceiling with Blondie blaring from the
record player, a cute little Olivia Newton john lycra happening,
and she will have painted all the walls bright green.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's just one day. It doesn't fall far from So
I was very.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Used to constant change of style and pattern and mix
on pattern on pattern. I just thought that's the way
people lived. So when I would go to other friends' houses,
I was really surprised that, oh gosh, this is a
very white house. Oh I'm not used to this.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You don't change it ever, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Because every day, like I was even allowed to paint
on my walls in the bedroom. So you know, there
was a lot of personal expression permitted and encouraged. And
my mum's a nurse, so she's actually quite sciency, but
she just had this crazy creative flare that would just
come out in every shape and form in the home.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
What colors were your bedrooms growing up?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
They changed all the time. That's that's the whole point,
you know. I did have a pink bedroom for about
a year, which was the longest I ever wearded down
to one color. But I was literally changing the color
of those walls all the time. Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So did you do that as well? Moving out of home?
Was that something that you took with you straight away?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So like you know, I'm talking because I am a dinosaur,
like I'm talking back when I'm when I moved out
of home, everybody was really intrigued by this apart that
I took because I literally managed to deck it out
no money, not a cent to my name, but just
knew what to get, where to get it, and how
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to do it. And that's all my mother. She just
taught me all of that, that was very much a
part of her. But then obviously leaning right into the
love of color. Then post you know, fast forward seventeen
years years later to this industry. I only really knew
how to do color. I mean, God forbid, if you
ever gave me a white on white room, I just
would last two seconds in it. And I appreciate it
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and I love it. Yeah, and it's not like I
dress in really bright colors. I actually love all colors
with equal measure, and I'll lean into all the earthy colors.
But there is something joyous about the clever use of
pops of color. And that's how I'd like to think
that my styling has evolved. I like eclectic, I like fun,
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I like surprise, and I don't want to walk into
a room and just be I want to walk in
and let my eye take a crazy journey and be
excited by not knowing where to look next. So I
think that has kind of molded my style, and that's
probably I'm always looking to replicate that in a home
because I think people love the journey of it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So in interiors, do you think there's a difference between
the element of surprise and shock? That's a fine line.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
L Yes, I do. Now I'm looking I'm looking for considered,
considered pops of color. I'm looking for I'm looking for
chaos that is deliberate chaos, as opposed to just let's
just throw it all in and see what lands. No,
there's definitely method in the madness of getting that kind
of styling right, and some people will cross that line.
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And I'll be the first to tell them if they do.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Well, let's go with that. As a judge on the
new TV show My Reno Rules, how do you deliver
your opinions to contestants or how about let's set it
up tell people what you're allowed to say about the show?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh okay. The show is very exciting because it's the
first time in television history that the public are actually
able to win a house and there's two of them
up for grabs, so it's insane. Has never had a
prize like it. It is wild, it really is. So
that's a very exciting advancement. And I think you know,
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we've all seen the Home Reno shows over the years,
and of course hats off to all of them. I
think it's just testament to the fact that people want
to know more about home now. Thank god they do.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Australians can't get enough.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We love it in Australia, don't we. So this one's
great because it's just got a different format. So it's
not only the homes up for grabs, which is obviously
their most exciting part for the public, but the format
of the actual show with two contestants that actually are
working within each home means there's got to be a
lot of love shared between the two of them, so
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they've got to make sure that house looks consistent at
the end and it's not done by two separate people.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh I see, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And that is interesting quite a twist.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's hard enough merging your style with your partners with
a stranger.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
One hundred percent. So that's from a reality television perspective,
I think people need to strap in for some really
interesting conversations. But also I feel like it's really educational
because you know, when teams might not talk, you'll see
what happens when things go wrong visually, and we as
judges will be absolutely pointing those things out. So I
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feel like it's it's just gone the next level. It's
just the next step up and I think the Australian
audience are ready for it. I think they're going to
really love it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Share with us. Who are the other judges.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
They are the most gorgeous humans. I absolutely struck gold
with these two. So Neil Whittaker, who obviously is you know,
design icon, we love, we love, who could not love?
He's just the most delightful man. And Simon Cohen, who
is a bias advocate.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I also love Simon.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Simon is I have to tell you one of the
funniest men I have ever met in my entire life
could really absolutely moonlight as a comedian and just the
kind of sweetest human as well. So I felt flanked
by these amazing men the whole time, and the banter
between us all.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, what's the rapport? Like?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I think it's hysterical because who would know, right, But gosh,
Channel seven obviously had figured out in chemistry of who
would work with who. We all just bounce off each
We disagree, we agree, we hug, we cry, all we
do all of it and we didn't know none of
us knew each other before.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Really again, is it like when you first met? Was
it all very polite and hello, how do you do well?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess so, But I mean it doesn't take long
on TV sets. You become pretty close with people pretty
quickly because you were within confined, so there wasn't really
an option not to like each other, not that I
was ever worried we wouldn't, but I didn't expect to
leave loving them, and I did. I've had a place
in my heart for both, Yes, beautiful people and a
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really good show. I think, a good format, you know,
fantastic prize pool at the end, and we all loved it.
And all we want now is for Adrian Putelli to say,
let's do it again, because you listening Adrian.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Adrian is the guy who he has bought houses on
other renovation shows, and on this one he's supplied the houses.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yes, so he bought the houses and now he's giving
them away. So he's a very generous man. Yeah. So look,
Adrian is he's a billionaire and he's in the best
place ever to be offering back to the Australian community
generously as he is. So we need more Adrians in
the world.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, what is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It like being on a TV show? Because it comes
across as being so glamorous? Is glamorous?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think that's hysterical. Look, people might even look in
at styling as glamorous and so true, you and I
both know there's nothing glamorous about being an interior stylist.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I tell people. For us, it's like moving house every month.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That is exactly what I say to glorified furniture removals,
aren't we it's hard yacker? Now, look the difference with
television was that I found it interesting. The veterans beside
me had been in the industry for a long time,
so they would be used to the treatment. But the
fact that I had to just stand there and there's
someone fluffing my face and my clothes and my hair,
and then I'm asked an opinion and I give it,
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and then they're like, thank you, missus Green, and there's
your card to go home. I mean, I felt like
I was very well looked after. No, it's not glamorous.
There's a lot of waiting around, there's a lot of
you know. I mean, I'm good on the fly, and
I kind of rise to the challenge of being put
on the spot. But at the same time, you know,
you'd have a little bit of nerves around what am
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I about to walk into, what am I going to say?
What if I don't like it? You know, because I
am not always overly diplomatic. I try to be, but
sometimes words fall out and I'm like, I can't put
them back inside her head exactly exactly. But it was fine.
It was fine, and I don't think it's glamorous, and
(22:23):
I don't think anyone on that show got ahead of
themselves or has, you know, inflated egos. Thank god, because
none of us would survive that. It was a really
wonderful cast of wonderful people. There's hundreds of people behind
those shows. It's not just about the three of us
and the contestants. There's a host and they were all fab.
(22:44):
I've got nothing but brilliant things to say about my
little fan TV. Yeah, and I'd love to do it again.
It was fab.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I've seen a few clips of my Reno Rules on
social media, and something that really strikes me is the
emotion that the contestants feel or are showing. Yes, it
looks like there are some pretty big surprises that come up,
and I know you can't reveal it all, but what
is it like being on set and seeing these people
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whose lives are going to be so impacted by this show.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's really hard to sort of separate the emotions sometimes
because you know, these people have come in and they've
had nine days or whatever, however many days it is
to literally do this backbreaking work. They're on limited budgets,
they're up against it. Renovating is hard enough without the
constraints of worrying about what other contestants are doing, worrying
about how the color is going to look from start
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to finish.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
At the end, your away from your loved ones.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
All of that. So there's all of that that is
running through the back of your head. But then we're
paid to judge what we see and so we have
to be honest about that, and I'm nothing but honest.
If I like it, I like it, and if I
don't like it, I don't like it. The beauty of
the show was that it is all about, you know,
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renovating to get the best outcome, but knowing at the
end that they were going to be given away. I mean,
I think that that's the whole point of difference with
my reno rules. You know, this is not like sign
up for auction houses. This is like somebody is going
to get lucky enough to have the keys to this
house and it is done within an inch of its life.
So that's the difference. Yeah, But the contestants were really great.
(24:27):
They were We didn't have a lot to do with them.
We were often removed and put in separate rooms, but
we got to watch them, you know obviously in our exchanges. Yes,
and they were all mostly not from renovating backgrounds.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Really.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, there were people from all sorts of backgrounds and
they gave it a red hot crack. So hats off
for the f that they put in. I mean they
really tried hard.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, And that's the thing is that you give things
a go, you hope for the best. And that's also
something you've done over the past five years. I'll say,
with your retail space, yes, and to long yes, tell
us about that journey.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well that's timely, isn't it. Yesterday we chose to shut
the doors. So that's a bit of a it's mixed feelings,
to be honest. I mean, it's a sad thing to
say we're shutting the doors to a flagship store, which
all bias aside, was one of the most beautiful stores
in our country. But I think what's happened, and anyone
in small business will tell you the same story, is
(25:28):
that consumer behavior has just changed so dramatically, and I
guess Covid is to blame. We all worked out we
could sit on our couch and buy whatever we wanted
for our houses and if we didn't like it, probably
send it back, right, So that's really shifted the way
people buy and throw in all the other extraneous factors
such as, I mean, we had a fire, we had
(25:50):
two floods. Did you design the shuds in the shop? Then?
Had we now have a war? We have drugs raging
outside of our front door. We had someone pitch a
tenth for six weeks and we couldn't remove them. You're
caidding no, And so all of these extraneous factors really
are time consuming and take away from the experience that
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we were trying to offer, which was calming, in touch
and feel all of these beautiful things. Instead, we just
found that the consumer was watching all of our social
media content and saying, thanks, I'll just buite it from
my couch. Really like your videos. What are we doing
with these doors open? And paying all this money and rent?
And so it was almost inevitable for us that it
(26:33):
was good at the time. We didn't lose money, it
wasn't a disaster, but just we've decided to pivot and
really lean into the online side of our business, which
is very, very strong. Yeah, I think it had shocked
people to know that ninety percent of our business is online.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean incredible, it's a lot. Yeah, and it makes
perfect sense then why that's where you focus.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And the focus now is really interesting. It's almost like
a full circle moment where I'm coming back to now
hiring really inspiring locations again like I did at the start.
So I'm up here, Litchal. I'm on the Central Coast
next week in a ridiculously good house shooting all of
our art and homewares, And so nothing's changed from our
artists perspective. We still represent all of the same beautiful
(27:18):
boutique makers and artists. We're just leaning into the strength
of the economy, which is online and not having to
give so much to a space that was unfortunately up
against it with the elements of course.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, and for everyone who has to have a look,
we'll put a link to the store in the show notes.
Please do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, we'll miss it. Well, it was such a beautiful space,
but all I know is there are loads more beautiful
spaces out there waiting for us.
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to a different part of the edit. So we do
this thing where we like our guests to take us
on a sensory tour of their home. Okay, So I
will guide you through like a meditation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I do this every night before bed.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Don't worry, You'll be doing most of the talking. Okay, Okay.
If I were to come over to your place and
you were to open the front door, what would I see?
So tell me about your home? What does it look like?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Interestingly, the home I live in, and I've been there
for eleven years, which is the longest I've ever lived anywhere.
I used to move every year without a life. I
was the most just bored. What's next? Another house to
renovate and change and style, much to my husband's horror.
Now I'm really loving where I am. So you would
(29:18):
arrive and you would be able to smell the beach,
so there is, and the roar of the ocean is
often really loud. So you walk up to my front
door and it's really oversized. Nobody can get over the
size of my front door for just a humble little house.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Really, yeah, did you put that in or what.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
It was there? And it's one of my favorite things
about the house. It's just so intriguing. This to everyone's like,
what's behind that giant door? And then I opened the door.
And to be fair, it is a right of color. Yes, yes,
I'm probably yeah, I'm probably HARKing back to the days
of what my mother taught me. But they're pops of color.
They're not You're not walking into like a saturated k
(29:58):
full of color on the walls as such. But what
you will face straight away is beautiful smells. I always
have gorgeous room sprays because I really like to walk in.
I want all of my senses to say I'm home
when I open. I've got a dip tik. I think
it's called number seventy four. Beautyeah, it's really beautiful. It's
really kind of It's just the perfect amount of I'm
(30:21):
home smell for me. Then there's always music, paying always tunes.
So I loved you play.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What are we listening to?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Really eclectic? So my youngest son is a DJ, so
he he'll have a mix of dook on, which is
really cool. He plays great music. I really love his
sense of sound. But then it could be mixed in
with anything from like just chill playlists to opera. It
could be anything. My mother's a singer, so like we're
quite musical, and so we've been we face all of
(30:50):
the genres. So but then from the door, so it's
all very natural materials. There's lots of like cathedral timber ceilings,
a mix of concrete because the previous owners were concretes,
so we've got a concrete floor, lots of glass looking
out to an internal courtyard which is a green mosaic
tiled pool like a Moroccan pool. Yes, because of my
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love of Morocco. And then I would say it's humble,
but and it doesn't look in the traditional sense expensive,
but it looks really well loved and thought through, and
it's got everyone walks in and I watch shoulders drop.
It's really interesting what that psychology is when you walk
into a home that feels good, and I think things
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are all the things that you would hope for someone
that's done the job. As long as I have such
as scale and style and color, like where it sits
and what it sits with, they're all considered. And I
have tons of artwork, like just so much interesting artwork.
And that's what loses people Like I could be in
(31:54):
the middle of a conversation and I watch them in
their eyes of that there goes another five minutes, like
they've found the John Olson all that. You know, they'll
find something that what is that?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yes? Have you always collected art?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I was given one thousand dollars for my eighteenth birthday
and I was allowed to either have a party or
buy a gift for myself, and I bought a John
Blackman for a thousand dollars. Clever not been clever. I
drove past it every day on the way to my
pub job at UNI, and it was this beautiful butterfly
and it was all my favorite colors. And I looked
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at it every day on that journey for three months
and it was still there when I turned eighteen, and
I said to Mum, I think you'll support me on
this one. I'm dropping every single cent of that one
thousand dollars on an artwork.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And that started and you go everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, And I feel like I've collected artwork ever since,
probably did even when I was little, not really being
conscious of it.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Do you move them around or do you put them
in a spot and that's where they stay.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
A little bit of moving around, not a lot of
moving around. Used to be home a lot more, used
to have a lot more time. Yeah, these days, you know,
I'm kind of missing an action six out of seven days.
So my one day at home is so sacrisanct. But
I don't go moving art. I've been moving art and
everybody else's dous. It's a week. I'm like, you can
stay there. No, I just hang out with my kids,
(33:12):
my dog, the beach. You know, we cook in my
mum comes over. It's all very wholesome.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So yeah, I have to have that being near the beach.
Are you shoes off or shoes on? Shoes off?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, shoes on, and really lean into the
beach side of things with you know, the smells and
the we have strange We have a little buggy, like
a little golf buggy because we actually live at the
back of a golf course.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So we go through this cute little path and pull
up with like, you know, the surfboards of dog all
of it, and then climber June and we're on a
private beach. So it's that is so sae like, Wow, Yeah,
that's why I haven't moved. It's so hard to find
that lifestyle anywhere else. I feel like I've just let
out a really big secret. But that's yeah, it's a
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really special part of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, I have a list of quick fire questions. The
first thing I would like to know is what's the
first word that comes to mind when I say home love? Oh,
that's so beautiful. The next question is do you have
a chaotic room or drawer that you would never show
(34:25):
on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Absolutely one? P I have more than one? Is that
what is travesty? My kitchen cupboards are not something to
be proud of. It's kind of just shoved in. Everything
is away though, Like my house is very neat and ordered,
but it's not behind the doors. I'm a bit chaotic
behind the doors. A lot of doors, laundry doors, kitchen doors.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, so the house feels serene, just.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Oh, I can't have things like I actually am what
most ocd about having things on the floor or around me.
They all have a home, it's just inside the home home,
it's a little chaos.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Okay, that's fair, that's I think that's most of us to.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Confess that today. But anyway, you gotta let one out
of me.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Let's see what else we can get. So one thing
that you always have fresh in the house sheets. Not
heard that answer before, really fresh? It seems so obvious.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh gosh, that's like my bed is just like my throne.
I just it's I love my bed a lot because
I'm not in it very often, so when I am,
it needs to be feeling like totally luxurious. So my
big thing is we do the fresh sheets once a
week and everyone in the house gets fresh sheets. And
it's fresh sheets Wednesday, and we all know, and we
(35:42):
all say to each other before to go to wait
to get to bed tonight. It's going to be so
exciting Wednesday. We all really get, even the kids fresh eats,
because how's the beaches in our house? Kind of on
the floor?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And do you have a robovac?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Won't I really need to invest in one of those.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I'm still a.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Good old fashioned You know what are the cordless ones?
You know what I call? Yeah, yes, I need a robo.
I need one of those desperately.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Do you have a decor regret? It doesn't have to
be this house, but anywhere you've lived, do you look
back and go, oh, I wish I didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, it's funny. I remember thinking, say, ten years later,
after buying the red couch that the Vogue man bought
from eBay, thinking why did I buy that? And more
to the point, why did he buy it? There was
a double whammy there. I'm like, God, two of us
have got that wrong. Anyway, he took it, he was happy,
He's going to a holiday house for him. I'm like, okay,
(36:45):
maybe that's forgivable. And it was a red couch and
I don't do red and I don't do purple. If
I do red, have it it's like a certain plum.
It's it's a certain it's a cherry kind of red.
Actually I will lean into that. But this was like
a fire engine red. And I don't know what possessed
me to this day tonight, but if I had it,
of my one regret in my purchasing has led me
(37:07):
to a whole new career path. I would never have
crossed that man's path.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I think what's worrying is the fact that both of
you are in style and design, and you both at
some point bought the Red couch.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
It's still it still troubles me. I'm deeply troubled by that.
I don't know why, but anyway, Yeah, the Red couch
is no longer mine.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
So You've mentioned about the Diptek scent in your home,
but I would like to know candles. Yes, are they
always lit only for guests?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Don't have a lot of candles?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Does that surprise you?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah? It does?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, No, I don't. I don't have a lot of candles.
It sounds like I'm plugging dip Teek and I have
absolutely no investing interest in this brand at all other
than I like their scent. I do have a few
tea candles around the space, but I predominantly create my
mood with beautiful soft lighting.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, And I've already got a fragrance like the smell
that we have in the home, so I don't need
to complicate it with other smells over the top of that.
If that makes sense for candles so I'm pretty purest
when it comes to that. But I have in our
lounge alone, I would have five points of soft lighting
of ambient lighting.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh yeah, we had Neil Whitaker on recently Land he
visited loves a lamp, loves the lamp, but turns out
so does everyone.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, it's just such a clever trick to create that
beautiful soft ambience that everybody again, the shoulders drop, everybody
feels relaxed. You know, there's no bright lights seven or
seven flying in your eyes. It's good, it's really good.
So yes, that's my trick. But yet I'm not a
big candle person. And even when people buy them for
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me for my birthday, I'm always thank you so much.
That'll be in one of my chaotic drawers. Oh yeah,
I'd probably just need to look how many you're in there.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So not for anybody who's listening.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Don't buy it. Don't buy me a candle.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you splurge on eyes?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I splurge on food.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
So oh do you love to Are you a cook?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I'm not a good cook.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I'm a cook.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I mean I'm a mum, so I have to prepare
food to you hungry boys. But if I'm going to
do it, I might as well do it with tasty,
delicious ingredients. And I think we're really fortunate in Australia
to have such great produce. So like, if I'm going
to cook, I mean yesterday before I came, or actually
Sunday night, I cooked up this amazing chicken preserve lemon
(39:28):
and green olive tajean so that came from my Moroccan classes,
and the family were like, wow, this is the best
one you've made, mum. So that was good. But yeah, look,
I mean, I just cook with good quality produce.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm not I'm not an economical shopper. I'm not looking
to buy. Like if i'm I think our health is
super important, mental health and physical health. So for me,
if I'm going to blow money on anything, it'll be
somehow thrown at that, like if my kids need physio,
if I don't know, if we we need to talk
to a psychologist, all the things that cost money. Now,
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i'd bombit there before things. Yes, my house is kind
of nice and I'm happy with it, and anything I
get given or I collect from here on in at
this stage of my life is beautiful and it's a keepsake,
but I don't need stuff, and some a bit anti stuff,
like I think.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
People buy homemakers buy.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's coming from me. I'm the purveyor of beautiful things,
and I should be telling everyone to buy all of it.
But I am the girl that says, do you really
need that?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Like that room's looking pretty good? Or if you just
took those three things away and put one thing instead.
I'm all about honesty and practicality, and.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
In that I think you are helping people buy what
they love. Yes, So it's it's shopping.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
We just don't need throwaway society stuff, you know, we
just don't. We just should really think through our decisions
a whole lot more carefully and spend the money ideally
once if you can get away with it, mike you
a little bit more. I mean outdoor furniture is the
one that I have this conversation most with because outdoor
furniture can be very very expensive, so expensive, so expensive,
(41:09):
But then if you do it once and you do
it properly, like I invested in this amazing outdoor table
and chairs when I first moved to the beach, and
I remember thinking that's almost like another mortgage and I know. Yeah,
and that outdoor table that I got from Tate is
still looking exactly as it did the day I moved in.
Nothing has changed, and so I'm like, that was a
(41:31):
really good investment. I'm not doing it again. No, I
like that mentality. I really try and encourage people to
do that.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I think so too. So what makes your home beautiful?
Speaker 1 (41:44):
It's definitely the souls within it. With the four people
that live in it have got such different personalities and
it's really such a it's such a mix, like we're
all so different and just get along so well. I
feel like we're very blessed. I've been with my husband
since I was fifteen, so I mean it's a ridiculously
(42:04):
it's a ridiculously long time. And now we even worked
it together so and have done for eight years.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
So, like we have to ask a cliche, I'll go on,
what's the secret.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, we have a lot of days where we don't
like each other. It's okay, and that's okay. It's okay too. Yeah,
So it's just being honest. Yeah, I think there is
a lot of love in our house.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I do.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
I think, you know, our boys are our best friends.
We actually all really like hanging out together. And I
just love the way our home is like a little
haven away from the bustle. And I love the fact
that when anyone visits, they no they're special, because I don't.
I'm not. I'm probably reasonably private compared to people think
I'm just this fun party girl or something. But I'm
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actually really quite reclusive in my house. So if you're invited,
you're loved. Yeah, I think anyone that comes in feels
the love, and yeah, there's a lot there to give.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
So yeah, that's so true. I've heard from several of
our guests actually sometime on camera or off camera, people
who can come across as quite gregarious and charismatic or
maybe they are on TV, are actually introverts. Yeah, And
I think it's about it's how what recharges you.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
That's the word. It's very much the you know, recharging
at social battery, which mine runs overdrive. And I love
every second of it. But I do get to the
end of the day and I think, yeah, I need
to be now home with my little crab canceran wanting
to crawl back home, yeah, and be in my space
with my people, my things, my stuff, And it makes
me feel really secure and happy. So that's as simple as.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It is to round off here. We have a couple
of questions from our listeners. Good, so we do a
thing called room for Advice, okay, and that is we
have questions sent in and then we try and pair
the questions with the experts we have joined us in
our little home here on the edit. And I have
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a couple of questions about art, and I think they
will be perfect for you to answer, So let's see
how we go. Sure, the first question we have here
is from Mia, and she says, high home beautiful. I
love art, but I freeze when it comes to actually
buying it. I worry I'll choose the wrong piece or
something I'll get tired of. How do you know when
(44:17):
a piece of art is right for your home? Wow?
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Mia, that is really insightful. And if you're listening, you
are not alone. This is the consensus that I hear
every day. And it's actually sad because it's that moment
of freezing and not doing it that means they're staring
at their blank halls for another ten years. It's the
paralysis by analysis, you know that old chestnut exactly. So
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there's a few things that will help you. For me,
first and foremost, when I look at an artwork and
it's speaking my name, and I'm talking full one hundred
percent seduction, like I have to have this in my life.
I don't know why, but it just is me and
it's coming home. You take it home because you will
always find a home for it. But if it's just
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you know, not every single piece in your house is
going to have that level of sentimentality probably, you know,
not everything has the same equal value. So if you're
looking for a beautiful piece and you find one and
new lovers, my suggestion would be to do a couple
of things. The first one would be talk about the scale.
Let's make sure this thing fits in the space you're
(45:24):
planning to put it, because you can have a Picasso in,
you know, in the house, and if it's the wrong scale,
it can all just look terrible. So scale is everything,
and it really needs to be thought through from the outset.
So you could you could do good old fashioned tape
on the wall and stand back and look at it
to see how that spatially fits the space. We've got
(45:45):
a free three D RT app on our site, which
I think is genius, So people can download anything on
our site and to scale and to size, and it's
three D so you can even walk up to it
and see how far it is off the wall and
show perfectly on your wall. So all the guest works
taken out. So there are things like that, There are
(46:05):
services like that that are available that will really help
hold your hand so you're feeling more confident to do it.
I think once you've hit the scale and once you
know you love the piece and the colors are good,
then you're pretty safe to take it home and obviously
ask if there is an opportunity to return it if
there's any doubt whatsoever. We offer all of our clients
(46:26):
fourteen days because sometimes you need to sit with it
for seven days and go, yes, I'm loving it more
every day, or I just don't know, and that's okay.
It's okay to not know. So maya do your homework,
really do your research on the size. Come to our site,
have a look free Plug Greenhouse Interiors. We have over
five thousand artworks and there'll be something in there for everyone,
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I'm sure, and worst case, give me a call.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I love that, I mean, I hope that helps answer
your question. I mean it's fantastic advice.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Good.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
The next question we have is an email from Daniel.
So Daniel says, HIGHB I've started collecting art, but now
I don't know how to display it. Do I hang
pieces together as a gallery wall or spread them throughout
the house? And how do you stop it looking messy? Oh?
So it sounds like Daniel is buying with love.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah, Daniel's buying with love for sure. And who knows
what we've got in that little mix of our works there, right,
So it's hard to talk gallery walls or gallery hangs
when we can't visually see how it might be that
we would connect them in terms of the style and
the composition of the artwork. But what we can talk
about with hanging them is things like having a straight
(47:40):
horizon line, so that regardless of the shape and the
length of the pieces or the orientation of the pieces,
they're sharing a horizon line and that will give symmetry.
Straight up.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
I didn't know that that is really smart.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Well, it just means if they're all hanging from the
same line across the wall, even if one starts here,
one falls down here, square one's rectangular. Yeah, they've got
a commonality and that in itself will make them look
like they would consider it and meant to be together. Yeah,
so that's one way. But should he bomb them all
in that or should he be spreading them around the house.
I don't know how many artworks he's got. I'm a
(48:16):
sucker for a gallery hang. I just love a combination
of works. I feel like it shows your confidence, yes,
of you and your home. So I feel like to
get it right. It's good old fashioned puzzles on the floor.
So you're going to have to be putting them all
together and working out down there how that could look
up there. That's quite a skill.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And what sorts of things do you look for when
you're putting artworks together in a puzzle on the floor? Yeap,
what are you looking for to see if it works together?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
I think before we even talk about that, it's more
important to identify with Daniel. Are you a minimalist or
are you a maximalist? I mean that may well dictate
the fact that you know what single punchy moments on
your walls is going to make it feel better for you? Yes, crazy,
busy eclectic gallery hangs? That are you know, Julia Green chaotic?
(49:06):
That might send him in an absolute twist. I think
you've got to ask yourself, in the way you live
and in your own home, what makes you feel good
and what makes you feel calm, and how that's going
to translate into how you're going to hang your art work.
But once you figure that out, if you were to
do a gallery hang of multiple pieces, I'd be looking for,
for instance, they all probably ideally should have different frames.
(49:30):
If they're all looking like they're in the same frames,
it's going to be looking like you tried to match
them all together at it. You need to make it
look like it's an honest mistake that gosh, you're clever,
but I'm behind all of that are like so many
cerebral moments that have killed you to get it to
look like it was a happy accident. It's a bit
like those beds we see in magazines, which is so
(49:52):
beautifully made and everything's so casually draped and it looks like,
I don't know, someone's just had a shag, but no
one has. There's four hours that have been put into
getting bed to look like that.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
It is much easier making a straight fructured bed. Structured bed, yeah,
exactly the same principles apply with art. But I think
Daniel decides first up if he wants single moments, and
if he doesn't and he wants to hang them together,
look how he can make it feel like it was
you know, a bit of a risk, you know, and
mix some styles, mix some compositions. Maybe color is the commonality.
(50:23):
Maybe each piece that's there has a thread of blue
or has a pop of red in the top left,
in the bottom right, and in the middle to connect
it together.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
So there are ways. But if you're not confident, like anything,
you engage an expert to do this for you. I mentally,
I go to a dentist because I don't know how
to do my own teeth. Well, I know how to
do my teeth, but not.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Clean my teeth.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
And we go to doctors because they will come to
an interior expert if you need help. That's okay, that's right,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Oh, Juliet, thank you for sharing all your expertise and
helping us today.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
I can't believe it's over. That's the fastest forty five
minutes of my entire life. Well, I could see you're
talking to you all day. I know what we can
off and keep going.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
It's been an absolute joy and I know that you
are just in the middle of whirlwind trips. So next
time you're in town, do come back. We'd love to
have you on the edge again.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And just thank you, thank you well. That was such
a pleasurable forty five minutes. I loved it. Thank you
very much for having me on well.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
There were a few surprises in there. I loved talking
to Julia about her journey from drug peddler to TV judge,
the evolution of her creative career, and what really makes
a house feel like home. And we'll be watching closely
when my Rino Rules hits our screens. If you've enjoyed
this episode, make sure you follow the edit for more
(51:51):
conversations about home's style and the people shaping the way
we live. Next time, we'll be stepping inside another home,
another story, and another design dilemma. This is the edit,
your style, your sanctuary, and a pop of color to
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