Nice pool, but a shame that your neighbours can see you through the fence, and therefore, you get no privacy. If you were wanting privacy of some kind, bamboo, tikka plant or even lovely conifers will look quite nice, also as a backdrop to your pool area. I would also place a beautiful urn or two strategically near the pool, to add character and colour. I would finally add an order of large stones for good effect.

Hi Laura, I have been through the same dilemma myself. I could not find an option short of getting second hand doors. Sliding doors are, to me anyway, a poor option especially if they are used all the time i.e. your main ingress/egress. Given the cost of the windows/doors I have not done anything at this stage. I will later but I will ensure that I can have exactly what I want. If I was to put in something that was not I wanted I suspect that I would regret it. In the mean time I would be looking on the second hand market and see if there is anything appropriate. Bifolds and French doors look fantastic and will really open up the area. Good luck with it.

It should not be but you will need to ask a builder to inspect the roof for suitable load points which will determine the starting point of the fly over & the opposite bearing posts. I am not a builder but we have two of these on our house & this one is a gable which runs over a skillion roof. They start behind the gutter line & overlap it with a gap between the two rooves of about 500mm on average depending on you particular structure & the fall to the outside height. This gives you the height needed at the outside edge. This one runs off a skillion roof but starts about 1 metre behind the gutter from the position of the internal bearer (load bearer).You will need it engineered & approved by your local authority.

Merbau is an imported hardwood apparently from Indonesian 'sustainable forest's'.... I'd stick with local hardwood's as you will know well truly that they are 'sustainable forest's'..... It's only a few bob more so may as well support aussie job's as well as the environmental factor's such as transportation. Tallowwood is a good outdoor timber but so is spotted gum and ironbark. Just come down to cost for me as all aussie timber is world standard quality. You could put fibre cement sheet on top of rafters then colorbond over. Lot of options to choose from, plywood, t&g timber as well as the fibre cement sheet. Depend's on the 'look' you're after, budget, etc.