Don't waste your money rendering the bricks - that look will go out of fashion. Don't replace your tiles with a colourbond roof either as that would be giving you an inferior roof and colourbond roofs are noisy. Replace your front door and try and choose wrought iron bannister railing. Then start off fresh with your front garden; soften it with magnolia shrubs, white agapanthus and trailing plants such as erigon to trail over brickwork in the driveway. Your bricks show a lot of character; please don't render them.

Thanks everyone! We bought the house a little over a year ago. It looks mostly the same, except the pond next to the front door has been pulled out and replaced with landscaping. I don’t hate the bricks, I am just trying to work out the best option that incurs minimal occurs for maximum effect. Yep, the idea would be to paint the guttering and downspouts as well – just need to decide colour scheme for the house first. The outdoor lights and letterbox will also be replaced once a decision is made. The driveway we think we will paint until we can afford to do aggregate and once a decision on the house has been made. After Gallifrey comments, I am going back to the idea of painting the roof. The roof gets me stuck every time. I hate the colour and find it hard to work with. Love the idea of a pergola to enhance the front door!! Just wonder how much it would cost

we also had a problem roof and after careful consideration of all options we decided to remove and reshape the whole roof, adding about 4 sq m of additional ground floor space and achieved a much better internal flow..second stories are also worth considering but there's a considerable amount of space lost to the stairs so careful research will give the best solution..post a floor plan of existing house and plan of the block to invite suggestion

New question (not referring to original photo) - Thanks for all the suggestions. Just to clarify my post, the original design in black is the original house with a gable roof, and it already has a small extension perpendicular to the main house which has a lower gable roof. (Design from the south is below, yellow = original house from east to west, green = existing extension projecting to the south with gable roof perpendicular to original roof, red = proposal if this is possible, to widen the extension). If we want widen to the extension can you just widen the gable roof or is that a costly nightmare? (I assume we would have to rebuild the roof on the existing extension?). We may be looking at replacing our roof anyway in the next couple of years, so this could all happen at the same time. (Yes, will talk to a building designer too).