Extending into a small garden

[Babybrainx2]

We live in a 3 storey town house. Small 4th bedroom (used as playroom) , toilet and large kitchen/diner downstairs. Large lounge, full bathroom and 3rd bedroom (used as office) on the middle floor, and 2 large bedrooms and full bathroom on the top floor.

The garden comes off the kitchen at the back of the house and is about 6mx10m ish. We have 6x3m patio and the rest is lawn. I want to extend over the patio to have a downstairs lounge, then the current middle floor lounge could be a big 4th bedroom.

DH thinks that it will make the garden far too small. I don't think it matters as there is a huge green at the front of the house, so if the kids need somewhere bigger to run around, they can go in, what my 3 year old refers to as, the "big front garden"

Would you extend and sacrifice a chunk of the garden to get all of the living space downstairs?

I know it's a long shot but just wondered what op ended doing?

@Babybrainx2

I prefer usable inside space to having more garden. Many people are perhaps a bit idealistic when it comes to gardens and tend to think they need a bigger garden than they end up actually using. If you plan to stay put for a good few years then do it.

Zombie

Hi, I've name changed since this but it's me

We moved house in the end to a different area and ended up with a bigger house and garden for a minor increase on the mortgage! Looking back, if staying, I should have got some quotes for the extension and gone from there. I definitely feel the benefit of our bigger living room than the bigger garden. Especially as the kids get older and it will essentially become a place to sit in the sun with a book as opposed to play football.

I agree with your DH. You will extend and the house will be big and the garden will be small and it will be imbalance. I once viewed a house that has been extended to reduce the garden to 6m x 5m and decided against it for this very reason.

If the house was small and the garden small I'd view it differently and that would be ok.

The garden would be very important to me, wouldn't care about the green. So would put me off, yes.

Argh. Zombie. Good to read your update though OP