That sounds like a good idea bigreader. The frame is a bronze with a greenish tone and painting the bit between the windows the same colour would make the window look more cohesive. I also want to repaint the concrete verandah that runs around the house (semi-rural with water tanks underneath so don't want to pave etc). Thinking Berger paving paint Jasper which is a darker tone? Thanks...exterior colours are so difficult. .

Thanks everyone so far. Only hesitation with glass (or a white-grey tinted glass) is that it might be a bit glarey with the spotlights above, but will definitely consider it! Cheers Annb, my father built the whole room including the cabinet :). The cd shelves are from IKEA. The metal strips you see are just over-door clothes hooks you can pick up for around $10ea. They just slide on top of any old door and are not bolted on in any way. We are going to install a rail inside to convert this to more of a wardrobe. The room dimensions are actually 3.8 x 3.7, but the width of the wall pictured is more around 2.7 because of the cabinet & bricks. Behind the curtain is a double sliding door with windows and optional external access. Same on opposite wall (which is more important to access.. and has nice views, hence the current, slightly awkward bed placement..) The pocket door is to what will be an ensuite. Main internal access is opposite, or external through the sliding door (marked with arrows in the second pic). The mezzanine is 1.4 wide, with sloping ceiling overhead. Could technically fit that king single up there, just, but the bed will probably be upgraded to a double bed soon enough. It's just storage on the mezzanine for now, but brainstorming... thought it could be used as a reading retreat or put that bed up there for guests once the double bed (thinking IKEA's Malm with the under-bed storage drawers). Just one young adult (20s) using the room. Between the wardrobe, drawers, sideboard and mezzanine there is plenty enough storage space. Drawers and sideboard will stay as is, but we are hoping to use this side of the room more wisely! A bit of a quirky space to get right! Thanks for your help everyone :) :).

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Thanks @oklouise, @siriuskey. I know I really really need to get up in the roof (or more likely get someone else to get up there, it's a small access hole and a long way off the ground and I'm not great at either of those things with a ladder). If I'm right about a max ~3m height in existing roof space we could fit ~3-3.5m wide room essentially above the hallway of original house and meet minimum heights (I think....). And then hopefully a little wider under an extended roofline to the back, without it being a full/boxy second storey extension. Here is a super rough sketch of the current layout of the house. The dotted orange lines are drawing over existing roofline when I overlay a screenshot from google maps, so not 100%. I don't have a proper house plan, will need to get something drawn up. It pretty much fills the block width (~0.5m from wall to fence each side), but we have heaps of backyard to extend into (`18m from current back of house to back fence), but do plan to eventually add a separate garage accessed from back lane and want to keep a big backyard. No important view to chase, but looking directly south is over green space/park, every other direction is pretty suburban. If the roof conversion is possible, I think I want to convert the small bedroom 3 into a family bathroom, kitchen into a 3rd bedroom, split the dining in half and make that into a study off the lounge. Then push the whole back wall out probably 2.5-3ish metres and in that open space, fit a powder room, staircase, laundry/mudroom with external access, living/dining/kitchen. Possibly fit a scullery into the other half of the current dining? And put a covered deck off the back. This is the real design dilemma I guess, where exactly do the stairs go (against wall shared with lounge?), and if no roof conversion, then it's either raise up full storey (still need to work out where stairs go) or work out how to add a master suite to single storey extension. I'm really struggling with getting that to work.