Umm, I think you could afford an interior designer! But as I'm awfully generous with my pearls, here goes. The lower balcony is an informal extension or your living areas, and will probably count as living floorspace more often than not. I would include an outdoor kitchen along the side wall, and install a floating timber bar top along the balcony wall, as a drinks bench or informal dining slab overlooking the city skyline. At the opposite end a vertical garden wall and a grass carpet, turf lawn rug in that area. I would introduce round outdoor furniture to encourage relaxing, perhaps exterior grade beanbag or more contemporary rattan tub chairs, with charcoal upholstery. Ones that can rotate to face your flat screen when entertaining. So one end is lounge the other dining, although not sure a table would be needed as the dining area links from the inside and doors can open Ruhr up, so the bench and stools is all I'd do, to keep it feeling light and spacious. Use bold and bright pops of colour in cushions along a built in timber slatted bench at the lounge end along the balcony wall, build this is a seat with storage capacity running almost full length stopping a t the mid wall section, change direction so it's an L shape, with the L a planter box also in slatted timber, but filled with plants like ginger plants. Tis will act as a divider between both ends but not all across. Upstairs as it's huge, divide with a slatted wall, perhaps with stainless steel mirror sandwiched here to reflect each end, my reason is to give both bedrooms their own private balcony. Box furniture each end, and Provide a pull out line both sides of the screen. Mobile planter boxes on castors so they can be moved for sunlight. Let these two separate decks be an extension of the personal bedrooms, with individual colour and finish. Although I'd paint the inside of your balconies in a concrete grey so they disappear into the horizon. Try horizontal bands of grey, graduating from charcoal at the bae, then into lighter greys at the top, take your colour cues from the city skyline.

I agree about the idea of putting roller blinds on your door , matching the colours of the others must mention about Annie Sloan paint : it is a chalk paint and you can apply it on any wood surface with at having to use primer, what " seals" the pain is the Annie Sloan wax you apply afterwards. You can Buy Annie Sloan on line , i use Annie Sloan a lot.it is expensive if you want the legs painted black to be smooth, just paint and wax , but one coat of Annie Sloan does not give a good coverage. It you want it " distressed" slightly, then just sand a few it on the edges afterwards, before the waxing With a slight " distressed" leg look, but you would need to give the top of the table a light sanding to " rough it up" on the edges if you want a good solid, coverage, Annie Sloan is not the right choice have a look on eBay, I have just bought some cages light to fit near my table outside ( I was just playing around with them yesterday before the electrician comes toda), they were only like $46 each

Hi Love the setting! From what you are describing, it sounds like you have a ventilation issue. A deck lower than 400mm off the ground needs to have ventilation just like the house. This typically means the sides are open (doesn't happen) and the spacing is around 5-6mm between boards. If you don't have this, the water that gets in cannot evaporate and will keep the ground and the underside of the deck moist, even with your drainage as it can pool in sections. This in turn means your deck is always wet. Once that happens, it is only a matter of time before fungus growth/soft rot etc occurs. We always excavate a low to the ground deck to ensure we have 400mm of clearance to the underside of the bearers. Another way is to ensure there is a moisture impermeable membrane across the ground (plastic) covered with gravel and graded down with vents placed all around. Cheers

The most effective landscaping for selling is to make it as tidy as possible so the new owners are not daunted by the maintenance work they are taking on. Once everything is neat and tidy, think about what you can do to suggest possible uses for the space without necessarily investing too much. Approach it like staging a house - buyers currently are looking for indoor outdoor flow, all-weather outdoor rooms, vegetable garden options, and social features such as firepits, bbqs, seating etc