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COASTAL HOUSE BY O’CONNOR & HOULE

The Mornington Peninsula narrows as you head toward Sorrento, with the relative calm of Port Phillip Bay to the north and the wilds of Bass Strait to the south. Residents of this area tend to define themselves by living on either side of this thin strip of land – turn right for yachting, left for surf. Coastal House by O’Connor and Houle is tucked behind the primary dune on the southern edge, surrounded by a dense landscape of wind-sculpted moonah, ti-tree and coastal beard-heath.

The clients found O’Connor and Houle, a Melbourne-based practice established in 1996

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