What a sweet little coop you have there! Soooooo cute!!
If no one has said it yet, please be sure to replace the chicken wire on the door to the roosting space with a piece of hardware cloth. It's your choice if you want to replace the rest of the run or not, but definitely make sure that nothing can hurt your girlies while they're sleeping. It doesn't look like your barrel latch will take a lock -- might want to think about replacing that too so that you can lock that door at night and keep preds out.
It might not be a bad plan to make a removable window for the door as well, so if it's really raining/blowing, your girls will be protected and the bedding will stay dry. It wouldn't be hard/expensive to fashion something out of a plexiglass remnant on sliders made of trim.
If you put it up on bricks, make sure nothing can come from underneath, either by squeezing through or digging. Might need to bury a perimeter of wire.
Finally, if the roof has asphalt shingles (looks like it in the photo?) then you probably don't want to collect rainwater. Asphalt shingles often contain nasty chemicals and you wouldn't want to feed that to your chickens. For the run, there are lots of clear plexi panels that would work perfectly. If you build them up just a little on the front, the rain will run off better vs. sitting on top.
Enjoy!!
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