PERCUSSIONIST BREE VAN REYK came back from touring at the end of 2012 to find her girlfriend Chloe Goldsmith had made her a Christmas present. She’d made the bed. Literally. It’s a plywood number with drawers underneath that architect Chloe constructed in a workshop in Sydney’s Marrickville when she was working there as a carpenter. It’s so heavy that, even though it’s in four sections, she had to ask friends to help her cart it upstairs to Bree’s apartment. “It’s a total dream,” says Bree. “I hadn’t had a bed before, just a mattress on the floor.”
That was the first major mark Chloe made on the one-bedroom apartment,
