Gypsies, tramps and thieves...

A few months ago, some sneaky bastard made off with a few panels of the side of our temporary fence. Not a big deal since it was only a panel or two and the vast majority of the fence was still standing. 

However, when Ben dropped by on his way up North today, he noticed a much bigger problem....someone has stolen ALL of the front temporary fencing! Bastards! It amazes me that someone was able to just drive up and start dismantling it all, but I suppose if they acted like they knew what they were doing then no-one would have questioned it (considering how close the house is to being finished). In any event, the house is not quite finished yet so new fence will need to be reinstalled for a few weeks.

Despite this annoyance, having no front fence did allow for the first shots of the house sans-fence:

You will notice in the bottom of this shot that the thieves didn't take the
fence feet...maybe that's a job for tomorrow

In terms of progress inside the house, half of the pendant lights have now been installed. Still waiting for the downlights as there was a bit of miscommunication there - Keogh thought that we were supplying them, but we thought that Keogh were supplying them...oops. They are currently being sourced and should be installed later this week. 

Master bedroom

Bedroom 3 (bedroom 2 also has a matching pendant)

IXLs in the bathroom and en suite

Dining room

Theatre room

In other news, the chippies have been back on site to install the window seat in the master bedroom. I didn't think it was going to be one of these "lift-up" types, so I am very happy with how it has turned out...

A bunch of tiles have finally been delivered on site ready for the tiler to start:

Finally, it looks like our neighbours have been doing some building of their own. This was previously a gate that they had built for access to the paddocks (where our house now sits). The whole fence is pretty run down, so we were planning on approaching them soon to replace the whole length. Looks like someone has taken matters into their own hands...with interesting results....