Our puppy (now 12months) digs and destroys our garden. She chews the vines/creepers (especially the stems) and the plastic trellis... She also loves to sit on an outdoor storage box (plastic brown wicker look from outdoor shops)... When I remember, we give her some toys (plastic bottles with dog biscuits inside with lid screwed back on, chicken wing inside frozen ice cream container of water, 'Kongs' with peanut butter inside, bones (uncooked) and lots of walks/exercise to tire them out. Chewing is a big thing with the development of their teeth/gums etc. I know I need to do more training with her too... (Yes - already she has 'us' well trained!) Hope you manage to enjoy both garden and dog.

Didn't need to be fixed end to end, they are just fixed to the same uprights as the decking on the front (leaving a gap the width of the upright in between the weatherboard and the decking face). I can take some photos if you'd like. The best tips I can give is to string line your uprights for both the straight line AND the height. Also, don't use the same blades and drills to cut the weatherboard as you do for the wood... Weatherboard needs diamond blade bits as we later found out (after ruining our saw blade and drill bits).

a quick look on HOUZZ revealed many photos of similar ideas... you may like to check out "garden colonnade or climbing roses" for inspiration and i'll keep looking for something suitable..the idea is to build the structure tall enough so that the top is way above the height of the existing fence and you could also add horizontal panels of lattice as well as the climbers to obscure the neighbours' roof and your shrub roses can be planted between the colonnade and the fence The neighbour's structure looks like it's attempting to block out your house it's just not tall enough...

I wouldn’t add any more brick edging as what you have done is beautiful and it balances the house perfectly, I love the grey planter boxes, I would plant these up , murraya would be gorgeous and has a divine perfume, you could continue this as a hedge in front of trees along fence line, paint your fence, paint the garden bed edging to match the planter boxes, add some gorgeous planters near front door, gorgeous cushions on that great swing seat, gorgeous house.