Extend or improve internal rooms/driveway

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Not sure if anyone can offer any experience. Currently in two minds whether to put our money into knocking the conservatory down and rebuilding an extension of similar size and replacing kitchen OR focusing on replacing kitchen, bathroom, sorting master bedroom and replacing driveway- all of which need doing. Currently fine but dated. Driveway flags all cracked though.

Would you add the extension later once you’ve sorted the other bits or leave those and knock on the extension first with the others to follow a few years later. Two minds over which way round to do it.
The cost of the extension circa 25k would be a fair bit more than driveway bathroom bedroom etc.

Also if we sell which would be most cost effective?

Thanks. Just looking for opinions/experience. We are a young family with a 90s style 4 bed detached.

My immediate thought is that if you do the driveway first then the builders will destroy it while doing then rest. Ok maybe destroy is too strong but scratching, scuffing and general annoying damage certainly.

Extend first. The rest of the work can be done in bits as and when you have the money/patience.

Thanks
Do conservatory replacements add value or recover the 25k ish spent if you sell? More so than say new bathroom driveway etc

Do the drive last. Its likely to get scratched by skips being delivered and spillage from cement mixers.

anything that adds to the sq-ft of useful space is likely to add value.

Just changing around a kitchen/bathroom in the same space does not add so much value (unless the old one is really really awful) because the new people might not share your taste.

I think conservatories put people off because they're not generally a good use of space (too hot in summer, too cold in winter to actually use). The extension will be the best investment, but you might not get it all back in terms of value. It will generally make the house a much better proposition though.

Just changing around a kitchen/bathroom in the same space does not add so much value (unless the old one is really really awful) because the new people might not share your taste.

This. As a buyer, I'd rather spend money on replacing a bathroom or kitchen, which I can then get exactly as I want it - than on turning a conservatory into a more usable room.