Web page afezoftheheart.com.au/ The owners are unique in their own right. I love going to shop. Stock changes regularly, quick turn over. It is like an Aladdin's cave. With the Forrest highway we go door to door to our daughter in Cannington in 90 minutes, we live central bunbury

Thanks for these fabulous comments! After reading them all we think we will definitely leave the red brick and replace the red wood with monument. We will add eaves across the front and will get a price on roof restoration with paint to match monument compared to reroofing in monument. Adding a double skillion carport to the front is a great idea too. We will definitely replace concrete with new as its old and cracked. The drive will have to curve in due to the water metre location right next to the letter box and a cost of over $2000 to move it. The garden definitely needs an upgrade. We have done a little bit out the front, not a great photo but I've attached a more recent one, we are thinking we will leave the bigger trees in this photos and add kangaroo paws through out. Front has been neglected a bit due to other renovations out the back. Nearly time to attack the front! Thanks again, we really appreciate all your thoughts! I'll post some photos once we get underway. I've added some of what we did out the back with the original 70's look we had. Been fun and hard work. All the work was done by ourselves and our sons.

Thankyou so much for your ideas and the pictures. I really like the style of the first photo and while we aren't quite that luxe or extravagant, it was a picture like this that first inspired my initial ideas of a gold (type) feature wall. Unfortunately, it appears metallics are harder to source and even harder to DIY. I was informed I would probably neeed to pay a professional. We tossed around wallpaper but dismissed it quite early. Maybe i need to revisit it further. Thankyou again!

Nice @julie herbert i like how its formal without being overly formal. Here is a photo from yesterday as i was pulling out the yuccas. I just need to be able to get enough height so its visable above the hedge, or ill cut the hedge lower. It originally had a bird bath in this location but i had to remove it as it was too damaged. I think a water feature in this location and a square hedge in the other location with a chinese tallow in the center kind of like your water feature could work well. @Liz I haven't removed all of them i'll likely be keeping the ones closest to camera, just the very large weeping one was a nightmare to get around.