When you’ve been living in the back of a troop carrier for three months with two bikes and a dog, even the smallest apartment can seem like the Taj Mahal. That was the case when Rick Hayward and Emily Devers returned to Brisbane after an extended East Coast road trip and inspected a very modest one-room studio in Red Hill. The woman who owned the house, and lived upstairs, was an illustrator, and the studio used to be her workspace. They decided it was the perfect place at the perfect time, and put their case forward to become the new tenants.
“We were a bit nervous, though, because she was a self-proclaimed cat person and we have a dog,” says Rick, referring to their third family member, Peter Allen, the
