Leah and her husband Ash had been looking for a holiday home on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne but couldn’t find what they wanted in well-known tourist destinations such as Sorrento and Portsea. What they did discover was the small coastal town of Balnarring on the south-eastern end of the peninsula and “a truly hidden gem” nestled among overgrown gardens.
“We instantly fell in love with the quaint little 1980s three-bedroom mudbrick cottage,” says Leah. “You could tell it had
