Australian Country

Precision planning

MANAGEMENT, IAN AND ALICIA COOKNELL HAVE

BUILT THEIR DREAM HOME IN RURAL VICTORIA.


Not very many two-year-olds receive a deck for their birthday. But for little Bonnie Cooknell the extension to her caravan cubby house was the realisation of her wildest dreams, particularly as it came with a slippery slide, a telescope and a steering wheel to make playing there even more imaginative.

Mind you, by most accounts Bonnie is a lucky little girl. She lives with her parents, Alicia and Ian, on a hilltop acreage on Melbourne’s northern periphery. She has all the freedoms of country life,

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