Type conversion extension method

Converting types in C# can get verbose. For those like me, who can't help but try to reduce the verbosity of their code, I pieced together this set of extension methods to make type conversion as clean as possible.

public static class TypeConversionExtensions
{
 #region Non-generic
 private static Object To(this Object @object, Type type, Boolean returnDefaultOnFailedConversion)
 {
  Type underlyingTypeOfNullable = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(type);
  try
  {
   return Convert.ChangeType(@object, underlyingTypeOfNullable ?? type);
  }
  catch (Exception exception)
  {
   if (returnDefaultOnFailedConversion)
    return type.IsValueType ? Activator.CreateInstance(type) : null;
   String typeName = type.Name;
   if (underlyingTypeOfNullable != null)
    typeName += " of " + underlyingTypeOfNullable.Name;
   throw new InvalidCastException("Object can't be cast to " + typeName, exception);
  }
 }
 public static Object To(this Object @object, Type type)
 {
  return @object.To(type, returnDefaultOnFailedConversion: false);
 }
 public static Object ToOrDefault(this Object @object, Type type)
 {
  return @object.To(type, returnDefaultOnFailedConversion: true);
 }
 #endregion
 #region Generic
 private static T To(this Object @object, Boolean returnDefaultOnFailedConversion)
 {
  return (T)@object.To(typeof(T), returnDefaultOnFailedConversion);
 }
 public static T To(this Object @object)
 {
  return @object.To(returnDefaultOnFailedConversion: false);
 }
 public static T ToOrDefault(this Object @object)
 {
  return @object.To(returnDefaultOnFailedConversion: true);
 }
 #endregion
}