How hard is it to get rid of open plan?

[Scuttlingherbert]

Hi,
I'm house-hunting at the moment and I know this goes against the grain but I hate open plan. I like separate rooms, especially since COVID and working from home.

If I bought a house that had open plan rooms downstairs, how hard would it be to make them separate again? Is it as simple as getting a builder to brick up where there used to be a wall?

Wouldn’t even need to be brick. Stud walls in new builds are just wooden frame and plasterboard.

You wouldn't need to brick up you could just get timber framed walls with plasterboard.
The main thing would be designing a suitable layout with corridors etc. But the actual work shouldn't be hard

Stud wall with sound insulation if you want a separate office. Not hard at all.

I have put walls back into my house. It works much better for us, space for older children (and us) to entertain in private / do separate things eg watch telly in one room, cook in another, study in another.

Just consider where the doors are going to be / how the flow will work. If it's an old house and been knocked through previously, they may have also bricked up old doorways. It could be worth asking a neighbour with the original layout if you could have a look so you can gauge the size of rooms etc.

Thank you so much everyone, this is so helpful!

Open plan is awful, I dont know why theres such a trend for it, it just makes a house feel like a massive bedsit with everything in the same room