Zac Efron is building a sustainable home in Australia with a design led by Joost Bakker, including hemp-based materials, a six-bedroom layout, and a rooftop garden—plus a kitchen and bathroom built with eco-friendly boards tied to crop-rotation practices.
Zac Efron isn’t just shopping for real estate—he’s building a blueprint. The 38-year-old High School Musical alum is working on a new sustainable home in Australia, with a plan that leans almost entirely on cannabis-family materials like hemp.
The project’s momentum showed up in May. when designer Joost Bakker shared an Instagram update that included a group photo with Efron and other crew members. Bakker wrote, “Excited to get started on Zac‘s house!. Especially want to thank these two legends @main__frank for working so hard to get this project designed and approved!”.
The details are just as specific as the enthusiasm. The house is set to sit on a 128-hectare property—listed as 316 acres (approximately)—positioned on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. The plan calls for the majority of building materials to be made from hemp. with sourcing tied to a local farm. On top of that, the house would also rely on hemp-derived or hemp-related items, including pillows, curtains, and mattresses.
Inside, the home is designed to include six bedrooms and a large living area beneath a rooftop garden. Bakker has also said he wants to experiment with a hemp drum-made washing machine, turning the idea of sustainability into something almost hands-on and experimental.
By late May, Bakker shared a joint Instagram post with Plant Bord. That post focused on how farmers who grow food can also produce sustainable raw materials used to build things like kitchens. It also pointed to the collaboration with Efron through planned kitchen and bathroom joinery. with eco-friendly boards intended to support natural restoration connected to ancient crop rotation practices.
What ties the whole plan together is the same thread from start to finish: every element—from the hemp sourcing to the interior pieces—keeps pointing back to how the materials are grown and where they come from. all while the house takes shape on a property spanning 128 hectares along the Queensland-New South Wales border.
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So is it like legal weed in the walls or just hemp? Either way sounds kinda cool.
Man celebrities really do anything. I read “cannabis home” and my brain went straight to edibles and rooms that smell like grass. But it’s probably hemp and not even the same thing, right? Still… 6 bedrooms for a celebrity is wild.
Hemp pillows, curtains, mattresses… ok but what about fire safety? Like hemp burns, doesn’t it? Also the article says “crop rotation practices” like that’s gonna keep the house from falling apart. I don’t get how that’s the main selling point.
Wait 128 hectares is 316 acres?? That seems backwards or I’m just bad at math. Also “hemp drum-made washing machine” sounds like something made up for Instagram honestly. I’m not against sustainable stuff but why is everyone acting like this means it’s a cannabis farm in their backyard.