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For a number of years, Steven Cahill and his wife Lucy had dreamt of living on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, so when the chance arose to buy a rather dilapidated house just a five-minute walk from the beach, they snapped it up. ‘We lived in the property while I). ‘I love designing houses so I spent months working on about eight different floor plans,’ he says. ‘Once Lucy and I had decided on our favourite option, we had it drawn up by a draughtsman.’