has anyone completed a garage to bedroom conversion and can share photo's please?

Hi, I would like to convert our existing garage and carport space to a second dwelling (2 bedroom+ toilet+kitchen). I am not sure if it can be called a granny flat. We use our garage only for storage and believe if we convert it to rental space, it will benefit us in many ways. And ofcourse, I want to do it with proper consents, but we have a small budget for it. I have checked with Auckland council and our house is situated in a mixed Housing Suburban Zone, so there are no restrictions for building this. I need to get a bank loan to do this conversion. We bought the property this year, so the CV hasn't changed much. All banks wants me to draw a plan for this conversion and have it evaluated it by them. If their evaluated value supports the loan+20% equity, then I will get the loan to proceed. The cost of drawing the plan seems to be around 10K (based on my initial research) and this is a huge amount to take a risk. I am really new to this world of construction/renovation. And any kind of guidance, advice or recommendations will help me heaps. Thanks

I love cars . I was watching a program the other day about a guy who has a $20 million car , the huge house , etc . He drove into his coblestoned driveway , drove towards his 4 or 6 garages , pushed a button , and part of his driveway started to lift up . Within maybe 20 seconds this became the roof , and he drove his car onto the 'lower platform' ( sort of looks like a carport ) . He hopped out of his $20 million car , pushed the remote again , and it dropped down out of sight. I thought that was so , so cool ! A very wealthy mate of mine built a very expensive house maybe 15 years ago , and he's a car nut too . Basically , he has a 10-15 car garage as the basement ( mostly underground ) but at the entrance he had an automatic carwash built in , so whenever he wants he can wash whatever he is driving at the push of a button . I thought that was cool , but a hidden underground garage seems even cooler to me . Has anyone actually seen one , seen one in operation ?

Hi - I am looking at ceiling racks for storage above the garage door. How much are they please.