After staring at your pics a few times I think I've figured out what's bothering me. The garden bed sticks forward. If you need it for the size of plants in the ground it might work but if you're only going to have pots you can line the edge up with the wall of the house I think? What is the depth of the garden bed? Colour and placement of the pots. The pots look terracotta and the brickwork looks more reddish, is that right? It doesn't look like it goes together. Maybe you can use those pots somewhere else where they aren't right beside the brickwork and get some pots for that location which are either darker and match the trims of the house or are lighter and contrast with the house more. I think the pots need to somehow relate to the windows. If that room could use some privacy or shade you could put two pots in front of the windows. If you want to preserve the view out then you could put three pots against the brickwork. The mulch. It looks too low for the edging. (What is the edging?) The colour, like with the pots, doesn't look like it goes with the rest. I'd go black pebbles or something light in a similar hue to the stone foundation feature. Or maybe scoria?

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?)

While I like the steel look I always wonder about heat transfer into the soil as I know this is a problem with colorbond raised beds. In summer the soil bakes the plants. Just fine if you have arid plantings but dire if you have a cottage garden. I have a similar dilemna on the north side of my garden. Would love corten but not if it's going to burn everything in the garden bed.

The choices probably really need to be made by your daughter, guided by your house rules. I would start with those things that can't be changed and anything that would be unacceptable to you such as changing the carpet, painting walls black etc. Has your daughter collected images of the sort of room she is imagining? Houzz has a great collection as does Pinterest. Once you have those ideas you can talk about budget and what is realistic. I would suggest Kmart or similar for on-trend, affordable furniture and accessories as what she chooses now is likely to be different to what she wants at 17/18. A space to personalise with photos, quote cards and mementos is important to a teenage girl, a makeup station and full length mirror are other essentials. We bought a couple of timber crates which we painted to suit, for storage of school books/folders. Kikki K make a gorgeous mood board which will contain all the photos, weekly plan etc. Your local Facebook Buy Swap Sell or Gumtree could be a great source of affordable buys. As a mother of 4 daughters, my advice would be not to invest too much as their tastes change, sometimes rather dramatically. You just have to balance the cost with your environmental ethics. And Kate is absolutely correct about the rug in front of the mirror - fake tan does not come out of carpet!