Dreaming BIG

Rebecca Judd went all in for the renovation of her family home. The result is an effervescent haven she never wants to leave

- ANNA MCCOOE

Forever is a long time. An eternity. Never-ending. And when change is a constant, as it is for multi-hyphenate Rebecca Judd, committing to anything forever is kind of a big deal. She’s done it before, notably when she married former AFL player Chris Judd in 2010. She also went all-in on motherhood, having four kids in five years (Oscar, 10, Billie, 8, and five-year-old twins, Tom and Darcy). Still, when she started renovating this house in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, the idea was for it to be her end game.

“Our vision was for this house to be our ‘forever home’, meaning that it had everything we desired so we wouldn’t have to move again,” Judd says of the Spanish colonial-style mansion she and Chris bought in early 2019. “It ticked all the boxes in terms of location, size, existing building style and most of all outdoor space for our large family,” Judd says.

There’s not enough space on the page to list all Judd’s job titles: television host, radio presenter, model, business owner, speech pathologist and ambassador are a start. With almost 800,000 followers on Instagram, influencer also rates a mention on her CV. With so many versions of herself at play, not to mention the developing personalities of her four kids, picturing how the house would adapt to an unwritten future must have been challenging. Just not as daunting as the prospect of moving again with kids.