Hi there! I know how you feel so this is what I would do.... Choose the bed that doesn't fight with the white shutters eg unfortu ately the leather..beautiful, my choice but the criss cross padded buttoning will have the horizontal stark white shutters above .I would want that stunning leather bed be the hero piece. Personally if possible I would change shutters to black same as wall if they have to be there. Sorry I'm not answering your question however although it's not my favourite, the plainest wooden style would probably be the easiest (but not the most stylish) choice. Good luck and all the best!

I love all this feed back - thank you ladies & gents :) I do think the light and flow would probably work better like oklouise's first post - I concede you are both right. My concern was the depth of the shower - we have a very pokey one at the moment but think I see how to rectify that - tell me what you think? Also I want LOTS of storage and think keeping the storage in the activity with the entrance now up the other end would limit the furniture layouts so I would probably keep that in the entrance hall and still use the nook as is - no doubt they will sit there to do their makeup as the light will be amazing BUT i can imagine the mess will not - haha! I LOVE those doors siriuskey- so grand and impressive but my husband is a lay in bed TV watcher so that would possibly take up too much wall space for his liking - again I giggle ( you have to right?)

I did get a guy out to give me a quote on cleaning and painting the roof. He said he will have to quote it using scaffolding because of the steep roof. That was a couple of weeks ago, but haven't heard back from him yet. I have seen some bad paint jobs of terracotta tiles so am a bit nervous about getting it painted. I wouldn't mind if my tiles were just slightly darker like yours rather than orange, but I do know that the darker they are, the more they will hold heat and Brisbane is hot.

It looks like even the footpath is done in an orange ? Anyway , my first observation is about your 'update' comment -- it is 'of a certain era' , I don't know if you mean you want something that looks more modern , but I'd embrace what is there -- most materials and tones and even the window styles are all the same era -- you'd risk making a messy look if you only update 1 or 2 -- thats part of the reason I wouldn't render or even paint the bricks ( other posts have outlined the maintanence issues too ) . I'd offer a twist on the above ideas -- get up on the roof and paint the timbers on the gables in charcoal , and also the window sill under the angled window . I'm also assuming there is at least 1 more window to the left of the entrance , that we can't see . Similarly , whether it is flat or angled , I assume it has a window sill , so paint the sill there too . The garage door would look overdone if you paint that in charcoal ( monument etc ) , you want to keep away from apricot or citrus or even reds IMO , and it does look a bit too understated as it is , so if the budget extends that much , maybe replace with a nice stained timber in a mid brown tone -- too dark will get back to the cliched 70's look ; whilst cedar or similar is trending back towards the brick and roof tones . And one thing that grates with me -- the letter box looks to be in a slightly different brick , veering towards a sandstone -- thats annoying in itself in that it doesn't match , but doubly so because it probably would have been a better brick to do the whole house in hindsight . I can only guess it was added several years later , but still grates with me , I'd probably redo that , even though it seems a bit of a waste , but maybe thats just me .