Open plan living

[Monkeymum45]

With Covid-19 creating a large impact on how we work and more people working from home long term. Do you think there will be a massive move away from the trend of open plan living as it is not suitable for home working.

Yeah - I think so. It makes sense if there's going to be more home working.

For those who already have open plan it's a cheap way of creating more room; just install a wall or divider.

I am expecting developers to change the layout of new build homes going forwards. Same space, but more rooms because of reduced open-plan living.

Yes. Love our doors. I am not keen on too much open plan when children are over age 10 or so anyway.

Alternatively, maybe a shift from the current fashion for living-kitchen-dining room plus separate lounge, to smaller kitchen-diner with separate living room and study.

add study extensions e have been using every corner of our house and I've never been so grateful for all our doors.

Sorry, ignore the last paragraph!

Yes I think that the large kitchen/living/dinning space will become a lot less popular.

I think more people would create a workspace elsewhere rather than change living space. So spare room office, something built in the garden, or convert part of a garage.
I don't think It would happen soon either, even if companies were to allow more WFH they will need to spend time looking in to it, infrastructure etc if it's not nothing they've offered previously. Most of us who WFH already have a set up, and I live open plan with no plans to change it

We have an open plan kitchen, diner, living area and use our smallest bedroom as a study.

This has worked really well for us during lockdown as it's easy to keep an eye on our toddler and whichever one of us is working from home has peace and quiet in the study.

Nope. People love (big generalisation I know) open plan! But it only really works if you have the space for it and if you do you can always square off a work hole.
I'm expecting demand for 3 bed properties, which is already the biggest in demand, to shoot higher. Only the very switched on developers will think early on of adding a study back into routine house plans and 'posher' developments already have them.

We are finding that with our older children, one separated off space is not enough. We need 4! Both adults need to be able to lock away for private work phonecalls, and everyone needs to be able to concentrate somewhere other than the kitchen where others will variously be in and out to to get drinks, chat at breaktime, cook, eat etc. We have 2 study areas upstairs, one in the living room and our youngest moves between kitchen and playroom, depending on whether he needs floorspace (Joe Wicks) or a table. Before lockdown, our only study space was the dining table.