Inside Margot Robbie's Byron Bay Renovation: Limewash, Linen, and One Very Patient Builder

BYRON BAY — The renovation has been the worst-kept secret in the hinterland for months: scaffolding glimpsed through eucalyptus, a builder’s ute parked on the same verge since autumn, and neighbors who have collectively agreed to know nothing. This week, new photos show what Margot Robbie’s Byron Bay property has become.

The answer, per a local architect familiar with the project: restraint. Limewashed walls that shift color with the light, undyed linen inside, reclaimed timber throughout, and a pool whose horizon line appears to pour directly into the hinterland.

“The whole property is designed to disappear into the landscape. That’s very Margot — star power at work, ghost at home.” Byron Bay local architect

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The renovation follows what’s become the region’s high-end vernacular: native plantings instead of lawn, outdoor showers, and interiors that read as absence rather than presence. Local trades, who guard client privacy as a matter of professional survival, describe a build defined by patience — months of limewash curing and stone sourcing rather than the six-week flip Hollywood prefers.

The property is not expected to appear on any market. Locals, who have watched celebrity purchases transform Byron over a decade, seem inclined to approve of this one: the house, as one put it, “knows where it is.”

The whole property is designed to disappear into the landscape. That's very Margot — star power at work, ghost at home.

Byron Bay local architect