WHEN GEMMA PATFORD LEGGE and Duncan Legge first saw their place, it took a fair bit of imagination to picture what it could be. The floors were covered in ugly old carpet and the kitchen was unusable, its unplugged oven sitting squat in the middle of the room. An old couple had been living in the ’70s apartment for 20 or 30 years. “They had filled the place wall to wall with stuff and it was pretty horrible, but we saw it as a nice sort of shell,” says Duncan.
Part of the appeal was that it had a spare bedroom that Gemma, who makes everything from hand-painted rope baskets to wall
