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There is - it is very contemporary and simple.

Use the garage as a base and build up to create the second floor. If you don't want a new postal number then it will be an extension rather than a granny flat. The planners may query the use and might worry that you are creating a separate dwelling but if you explain that it is an extension to your home with a connecting door to house a family member independently they should be OK. It can get messy if they think you are trying to create another dwelling.

You should also look at contemporary Polish architecture especially on Pinterest. Let me know if you want me to do a quick sketch plan.

Don’t forget about VAT.

Becomes a three-storey dwelling. Protected stairway and fire doors required.

It's Ireland - we have 360 degree weather and views!

Sure.

The building (I am presuming) was exempt and therefore did not need an application or inspections carried out. Now that you are converting it it is no longer exempt and the regulations apply to it. Therefore your BCO should be looking for structural information for the foundations and the super structure.

Brick or: https://colinwell.com/products/colinwell-architectural-masonry?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7draqqKIgwMVlIZQBh3_vA3MEAAYAiAAEgIOZvD_BwE

Get an engineer!

It’s a garage.

18mm marine ply fixed to the back of the barge board.

Why are you putting in a DPM/cavity tray?

No - atria.

Try it without steel. The Romans did.

Need to insulate those pipes!

Great stuff - in that case you're home in a boat! Good luck.

Double check it with your BCO. If you don't have doors to the kitchen - the hall and kitchen combined become the access room. Therefore all other rooms leading off the hallway and (by virtue that there are no doors to the kitchen) the kitchen are inner rooms. You can have an inner room accessed by the kitchen but only on the same floor the kitchen is on. The bedrooms are upstairs so don't comply. My thoughts anyway. APD: Inner rooms 2.11 An inner room is permitted when it is one of the following. a. A kitchen. b. A laundry or utility room. c. A dressing room. d. A bathroom, WC or shower room. e. Any room on a storey that is a maximum of 4.5m above ground level which is provided with an emergency escape window as described in paragraph 2.10. f. A gallery that complies with paragraph 2.15. ONLINE VERSION ONLINE VERSION ONLINE VERSION ONLINE VERSION 16 Approved Document B Volume 1, 2019 edition Building Regulations 2010 B1 2.12 A room accessed only via an inner room (an inner inner room) is acceptable when all of the following apply. a. It complies with paragraph 2.11. b. The access rooms each have a smoke alarm (see Section 1). c. None of the access rooms is a kitchen. TBE: Access rooms to inner rooms 2.7 A habitable room may be an access room to any inner room. A kitchen should not be an access room to an inner room other than – (a) to a utility room or conservatory which has an emergency egress window complying with paragraph 2.9; or (b) where the kitchen and the inner room are on the same storey and the kitchen is part of an alternative escape route leading to its own final exit. See Diagram 2.2.

I think you will find that you do need doors to the kitchen otherwise the bedrooms on the first floor become inner rooms from a kitchen which is not permitted.

Oopps!

Have a look at Cedral cladding installation.

Have you got a section? Have you thought about an apex lintel?