To change kitchen or not?

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Moved three years ago. House 80's but didn't need much doing. We have nearly completed all the little things (furniture, storage systems, painting etc).

We plan to extend in about three years, to creat utility downstairs bathroom and an extra living/ sleeping area. Not urgent but will be useful as kids grow and want own rooms (currently 4 beds and two share). We are saving for it now - costs quite high as we'd like to convert a cabin we have in the garden and we may not get planning permission for either.

As part of the budget we had also planned to replace the kitchen. But we're now wondering if we should do that now. Extension won't alter the kitchen footprint, save for the fact that we may block of the main entrance and re route this through the extension, and we would move a couple of things like the washing machine ?

Thoughts ? The current kitchen drives me a bit nuts (not child friendly at all) and is massively inefficient on space but it's functioning.

Options are wait another 3 years or so, so now but on a shoestring (we have fitted a kitchen before so know what we are doing) or do probably now and tweak when extension done ?

I think you also need to allow for things like electric/flooring that you will need to do as part of the extension...will you need kitchen out of the way for these things...you can always remove the units and put them back but doing the kitchen now might mean that you pay fitting costs twice?

We're in a similar position, I would love to update the kitchen but we're planning on a kitchen diner refurb as part of an extension in the next 5 years or so.

I think kitchens are worth saving up and investing in compared to other rooms which are easier to improve cheaply.