Small extension - how small is too small

[JamieJay]

Feeling crappy this morning so cheering myself up with a bit of daydreaming about more space

Current house is a teeny tiny 2 bed house, only meant to be a starter house but still here 6 years later with LO on the way as we love the location - end of cul-de-sac facing green space that can't be built on, good primary school, 4 miles from city centre/work, good garden and open spaces.

There is some scope to extend - however due to our plot shape the footprint would be limited to about 13' x 17' (2 storey - reception room and 1 bedroom). We'd also have scope to adda good size porch seperately.

Has anyone built an extension of this size or is it too small to be worth the effort?

To move to a similar size house would add at least £40k to the mortgage before fees.

Thanks for any replies.......

I would have thought an extension like that would cost at least 40k anyway ((where I live)

It does depend on how long you want to stay - if doing the extension means it will be your "forever" house I would go for it.

We did a teeny single story extension a few years ago. Sometimes I look at it and think that we don't really use the extension bit much but it meant we could change the layout to get a downstairs bathroom as well as a better layout in the kitchen...

Room sizes are ok but for £40k I think it would be better to move. The all-in cost is probably going to end up the same and the hassle is extreme in my experience.

Thanks all, when I look at the space we'd be extending into it looks small but I am a bit cr*p at visualising things sometimes.

I see what you are saying about the cost of it and would need to do some more exploring.

The £40k is the cheapest increase to get a 3 bed, wouldn't get us a comparable location and would be a 1 double, 1 single, 1 boxroom type house rather than a 2 double, 1 single we'd get by extending.

It's all a daydream at this point as it will be at least 5 years before we could do it financially by which time we'll (hopefully) have 2 children so even less money!!