Joyful House is a great name!

we do as much of the demolition as possible including collecting all the rubbish and doing the tip runs so that workers arrive to a nice clean worksite, we usually sell or give away surplus goods on Gumtree (anyone want some old Velux roof windows?) and we found that careful salvage of old wiring and other scrap metal helps offset dumping costs BUT all this work takes time away from earning a living and looking after home and family so you have to weigh up the cost in time and money against the builders' demolition charges but i have to say some of our intentions have been disappointing as after carefully salvaging six 8mx 200mm x 50mm beams from our last reno our builder told us that they couldn't be reused in the new work without being chemically treated but, despite all the hard work we think demolition is fun and ripping out old plasterboard and tiles and concrete etc (after the asbestos removal has been done by professionals) is really great fun and dismantling buildings is a great way to help understand how they fit together

How old is the pool, when was it installed? With the current regulations in my council, the city of canning (WA). If a pool was installed prior to 2001, then there still is no need for a fence. But all doors must be self closing and sliding windows can only open to 150mm. The Pool Inspector comes around every year to inspect the pool and ensure surroundings are legal to current laws. If the pool is a fibre glass pool, and in need of restoration, personally I would be phoning a pool removal company to remove and take away. There are numerous companies in Perth that do this. If you want a pool then get a small plunge pool. The comments about a pool being expensive, in my experience is not true. We purchased a home built in 2004, it was in an old area, so the pool installed in 1992 was retained, and the new home built. I checked the pool water the first week of each month. Needed maybe a bag of salt maybe some other ph/akaline chemicals, and on occasions nothing at all. So my monthly bill to maintain the pool would of been around $20.00. Plus the electricity cost, which also was not that high, as the filter was run during the day, (solar panels). I maintained that pool 12 months of the year, as it was the main part of our back yard, and added to the aesthetic of the home. We sold that home in 2019, and the new owners were going to refurbish the pool, because it was due. This is where the expense would of been. NOT the maintaining of the pool, on a general day to day basis.

it looks like the existing kitchen is an old extension and my suggestions without will depend on accurate dimensions and being able to remove some internal walls, add central ventilating skylights, extend at the front for a new master suite and study, reorganise the kitchen, convert the old ens to a more spacious shared bathroom, remove the external door from the laundry to allow for more counter space and careful demolition of the old front porch should provide some bricks, columns and roof tiles to attempt to match the old style with the new although such a big extension will need more roof tiles so you could replace the carport roof with steel and use the roof tiles on the house and use steel roofing on the bay window to match the carport, a combination of recycled bricks and render for the new walls and recycle the old front window into the new master bedroom ... there appears to be enough space for the extension with a 4-5m setback although the internal renovation would be more complex than the extension the combination would make a much more generous home