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So our family size has very unexpectedly doubled overnight from 2 children to 4.
We currently have 4 large bedrooms- 1 with ensuite, smallish kitchen, lounge and dining room. Prior to the increase in family size we were planning to extend the kitchen to a family kitchen diner and downstairs loo, and at a later point convert the 2 cellar rooms in to 2 rooms and a shower room.
The current house is great, good size garden, fairly quiet road, terrible for parking but with the house has a drive for 2 cars. We also have a single garage.
We have the money to do both the kitchen extension and cellar conversions at the same time and probably also to split one of the larger bedrooms in two, making 3 similar sized double rooms (3x4 or thereabouts), a large double and a master room. We could also make the ensuite a second bathroom - I don't actually like ensuites and the current one isn't used.
Alternatively we could move. However 5 bed houses with broadly similar sized rooms are a rarity around here, so we would have to wait for one to come up. The other issue is that we currently live spitting distance from the best secondary school in the area (I can see it from the garden). So have a very high chance of getting the kids in to that.
Moving may get us a house with better parking. We'll really struggle with parking when the kids get cars and there's no way of improving that.
Having the work done will be a huge upheaval and we will have to continue living here whilst it is done (we'll move upstairs though). It'll probably be £50k cheaper to do the work than to move, possibly more, possibly less.
What would you do?