Continuing on with my series of before and after photos from us painting and moving into our new house here are some images of the Lounge Room:

In the after photo you can see the halogen lights that we installed in both the living room and the dining room. We picked them up from Bunnings for about $60.00 each and they just attached onto the existing sockets which made them real easy to get installed.

As I wrote in my previous post “Surprise”, and Tamara wrote in the previous post “Why is there Donkey in my House?”, when Tamara was down in Adelaide thinking that I was just moving house I was also painting the main living area of the house. I had a huge amount of help from an army of friends from Reef to Outback as well, whom I really can’t than enough.

This week I’ll be posting photos of the house from before Tamara left, and after Tamara got back. I’ll start today with these photos of our dining room:

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I have noticed with increasing regularity the growth of home and the shrinking of the housing lots that they are built on.

I was flipping through my Queensland Homes magazine subscription that I got as a gift for Christmas and I notice advertising for a new gated community where the houses were quite big, but the lots in comparison were tiny… The new communities here in Townsville are pretty much the same with the sizes of their lots.

You can see what I mean on their web-site, Park Avenue Residences.

I have found that in most of the older communities the housing lots seem to be bigger.  In fact most of the ones in the community that I live in are 1/4 acre (1024 m²) or 800 m². Our block is about half that at 500 m², but it still leaves room for a big backyard, which you can see on my previous post Our Back Yard.