It depends on your roof actually. Raked eaves mean that theres a bit of mucking around for the builder when doing corners on a hip roof for example. Depending on blind sizes, etc, they could be mounted to facia/barge board instead of to walls. Even if you used raked eaves, is there enough room to mount the blinds to the walls?

From your description it sounds like your Weathertex natural cladding will be a feature. A few more up-to-date photos of constuction would help. I would suggest a standard white eave, possibly Dulux Vivid White, will not compete with the feature, and also bounce some light around. However there are lots of other whites around that may suit your medium grey cladding, depending if it is a warm or cool mid grey. Best to get some samples and make a decision on-site. When looking at eave colours always hold them in position and look from underneath. The eave never gets sunshine, but the whites can be influenced by the wall colours as they bounce some colour off the walls. Best of luck, Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls

two steps I see here 1. suggest you go back to council (either yourself or view builder if they are getting the permit) and question their particular interpretation of the reg 85, use the image posted previously and ask why "if a habitable room window is compliant when facing an open verandah so long as it's 1/3 open" an eave, which is 100% open and less overhang is considered to be non-compliant. If you have 1.4m offset from the boundary, and your eave is only 400mm, then arguably this window WILL be facing a light court with min 1m clearance to the sky (measured from the eave to the boundary) 2. If above is not accepted, then apply for the council "report & consent" process to vary reg 85. Best to discuss this directly with the relevant building surveyor so you can be confident it will be supported. Ask the surveyor specifically what that would likely need to see, such as do they want to see a bigger window of size Xmm x Ymm. You will likely need to submit updated drawings if the window currently drawn is on the min 10% of the floor area of the bedroom. It sounds like you may be out of your depth, and typically these report and consents involve response to Ministers Guidelines which can be tedious and you have to understand the technicalities and lingo, so perhaps it will be best to go back to whoever helped design/documented the building and get them to help you prepare the submission. It's now so close to Christmas/end of year and probably best this is handled after the flurry of the festive season has passed and people/admin/surveyors etc have some fresh energy and renewed patience.. Councils typically work on skeleton staff throughout this period so unlikely you'll get much of a difference in outcome timeframe wise whether you submit now or early new year. All it will do is be put in an admin pile and be addressed in due course Best of luck PD

eaves would have to be very deep to exclude all sun from a full height glass door...in our cold climate the standard 450 deep eave is enough to keep out most of the mid day summer sun from our north facing living area and we have removed a verandah from the same location to avoid shading the welcome winter sun.. for your situation consider external shadecloth roller blinds and re consider any fixed roof over the pergola until you live with the exposed glass for at least 12 months to see how it feels in all seasons