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Who spends time here Jeff Provan, a design director, and his wife Mariko, plus family and friends.

Style of home An original mid-century beach shack with separate bungalow, just over an hour’s drive from central Melbourne.

In the words of famed Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho, “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” And that’s certainly the case with Jeff and Mariko Provan’s joyfully unpretentious cottage on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. When the couple bought their fibro and weatherboard weekender just footsteps from

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