Conditions in Fluent Interface Method Chaining

In one of my projects, I created a builder library for a set of classes with many parent-child relations. I wrote the builder classes such that the parameters and child objects could be defined by method chaining, which is also used in Fluent interfaces.

When implementing method chaining, a method is declared as returning the object it is executing on:

public class Builder {
  public Builder AddValue(object value) {
    ProcessValue(value);
    return this;
  }
}

As work progressed, some of the objects to be built showed minor differences, and I thought about how to add chained methods conditionally.

Finally, the solution I came up with looks like this:

public static class BuilderExtensions {
  public static T If<T>(this T t, bool cond, Func<T, T> builder)  
    where T : Builder
  {
    if (cond)
      return builder(t);
    return t;
 }
}

This extension method allows for inline conditions such as

var builder = new Builder();
builder.AddValue(...)
  .AddValue(...)
  .If(condition, b => b.AddValue(...))
  .AddValue(...);

Other approaches are presented as SO answers like here and here.