Am I weird!?

[henmama]

The house is small, kitchen is small galley. Me and OH cook alot.

As an attempt to make more work space I was thinking of extending the worktop out to the back wall of the dining room. Where that tall stand and table is (see pic)
I feel it's cheaper than moving the whole kitchen into the dining room, because that actually doesn't save the much space as it's quite small too.

I'm confused!

So you want to extend kitchen units into the dining room up to the inbuilt cupboard? Yes I think that would look really weird.

You could extend it with a freestanding/movable countertop and see how it works for you.

I think it might look a bit strange if there’s a step down into the kitchen which it looks like in the photo? What would you use it for - preparing food or putting stuff on? It looks like you have an air fryer(?) taking up a lot of space so maybe if instead of extending the worktop you got a dresser or island trolley thing or even one of those Ikea trolleys you could use to store stuff to keep the counters you do have free?

Loads of houses like that round here and lots of people have extended the worktop into the living room.
I guess the other option is to take as much as possible out of the kitchen and see if that is enough to fix the issue? So move the fridge freezer, microwave, etc out so that the kitchen is just clear worktop all the way round.

A big dining table would give you extra prep space too maybe? Or a butchers block on wheels?

I wouldn’t write this off as a completely weird idea. It could work, depending on how you use the space and the rest of your floor plan.

It would be quite a trek from one end of the counter to the other for general food prep in terms of sink, stove, fridge remaining in the existing space.

id probably use that the dining room end for a nice run of cupboards with storage for plates, platters, salad bowls, glassware etc. maybe teas and coffees with a small under counter fridge. Get the day to day snacky stuff out of the small kitchen and leave the small kitchen for serious cooking space.