MAGIC TOUCH

WHEN SHE FIRST OPENED the yellow front door of this cottage in Daylesford, Victoria, Lucie Sayer, 52, knew she had come home. Like a burst of sunshine, it drew her across the threshold and into a new life. In 2017, she had moved to Melbourne from Hobart, but, instead of buying and settling down in that new city, she thought, why not fulfil a long-held desire?

“I grew up in Devon in the UK, so I always hankered after the country and knew I would move back there sooner or later – but it also had to be somewhere