IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT WHEN Helen Proctor and Alicia Goodmanson stumbled upon a one-bedroom apartment on Abercrombie Street in Sydney’s Chippendale. The thought of living above a takeaway Thai shop didn’t seem to turn them off; neither did the construction site they found inside what was once student housing. “The front room just sold us,” says Alicia. “It’s so open and beautiful.” The couple managed to see past the grungy stickers on the windows and canary yellow walls to the opportunity of creating their own personalised living space.
Their elderly Korean landlords rejected requests for a repaint, but Helen and Alicia insist the yellow has grown on them. “It actually kind of works all right with our
