Personally if it was mine I'd knock it down and start again.

If you really wish to keep it I'd remove the two side of timber and the bit where a door was once going to be and just leave the two rear walls (timber)

Keep all the brick walls and either render the block or clad with something like a stone face veneer. Then attach horizontal cedar slats to the timber frame and add some downlights.

Flooring, either porcelain or a small decorative tile.

Paint the breeze blocks and wood black ( and the fence to match) and grow climbing plants on the frame to create a lovely pergola. Put an outdoor rug in front of the chairs, et voila, an outside room.

I would absolutely keep it. If it were mine I would do something similar to @sksj1’s one suggestion, plus use the frame to mount patio heaters and lights, too. I’d also add sheer gazebo curtains.

It has potential. It’s a little odd as it doesn’t have a roof, but you could add wooden battens to make it more pergola like. It also needs a decent floor, the edging bricks look awful as they are upside down. They are also the wrong types of bricks - house bricks are not hardwearing enough as part of a floor and will eventually flake, but you could swop then for clay or concrete ones. An outdoor rug also creates cosiness. Planting climbers up it (Star Jasmine, honeysuckle, roses etc) will pretty it up. Oh and paint it, the dark brown is pretty grim.

Looks like an unfinished garden room or summerhouse, so either finish it or remove it.

I love Sonia’s suggestions. It has a potential, just needs some imagination. You could try pinterest for inspiration.

Had one quote for £8k so far to use cedar cladding and then oak bench seating. Might be a bit out of our range so welcome any other suggestions

I’d paint it and plant climbing vines around it so it provides some nice and unobstructing shelter Something like this but a bit less

That’s lovely Emma. What did you use on that back wall?

Thank you! They’re treated rough-sawn roofing laths.

Chris, you can try and stain the pine planks. Have a look at Protek. Their Royal Exterior Wood Finish range has a few translucent stains so the grain shows through. I haven’t used it myself, but I will, for my front garden. What I saw on instagram looks really nice.

Cedar is expensive and striking, it will need to be oiled to maintain the colour. We’ve used the cedar planks in our back garden, but more like an accent, a feature wall, and trellis. I use Barrettine wood preserver (clear) to maintain the original colour of timber.

This structure is causing me so many headaches. 2 quotes so far have been between £7-8k. That’s rebuilding the frame, a timber pergola, and some kind of wooden cladding around 2 sides. Built in bench seating, a small wooden breakfast bar built into the frame and Indian sandstone base.

The key things are to get 2 sides covered as the fences behind aren’t great. Some shade from above, but not total shade, would be our key parts.

We really need to find someone with the design ability to make something special without blowing a huge load of money!!