When you say “bypass” doors do you mean barn doors that hang from above the door way? I don’t think they’d give you the privacy you need. I’m no pro, but a few years ago, I enclosed a similar type room and added a door. Well, not me. I hired someone. 🤣. Anyway, it wasn’t very much work to add drywall, add a door, finish it off. I had a completely usable and closed room where a totally unused, open space existed before. Just a thought.

For what you want/need I do think building out the wall and adding proper (double) 3’0 doors would be your best option. For pocket doors you’ll need to move electrical and your walls, I think, need to be 6”. 8’ is a wide span for that, given what you describe. Sometimes what we need and what looks best (design wise) are at odds…..

If it were me and budget allows, one option is to get 2-3 bids for closing it in, making it an official bedroom (resale upside) with high quality solid wood bedroom door, adding closet (possibly along new wall for storage and also further noise reduction from the hallway area). If your house doesn't benefit from one more bedroom, consider moving office into one of the bedrooms and re-arranging overall use of the new house. Creatives deserve a quiet space. I don't think another type of door for that wide opening will meet your objectives. Another option, face desk so your back is to the other household energy, get Apple's new over the ear headphones and use digital fake background for any conference calls. Best of luck!

Your work space needs walls and a door, both with some soundproofing. You can ask around for referrals to a local acoustic firm. There's a lot of info on the internet, but basically, the more mass, the better for sound reduction. You'll need to seal off openings such as around the door. A bypass door will not do much at all because it has openings all around and has to be comparatively lightweight in order to move.

In the meantime, you can download the free noise measuring app for your cell phone from the government https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/app.html It'll give you a handle on how loud the noise is now.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions and input. Closing the space off is not out of the question and it appears that is the overall consensus from the community. I am leaning toward closing it off and adding two french doors that way, when not in use, I can keep them open and preserve as much of that openness it currently provides.

We just moved into the home in December (sooo many house projects), now that I've gotten a lot of the initial home projects completed I am shifting my attention to my work space and will be working over the next several months to get it dialed in. It all starts with this wall and door project.

I'll be getting bids for the project today and hopefully, I can put an end to the screaming child disruptions very soon, lol.

If you filled in a bit, more options would be available. I guess it comes down to budget, taste and needs.

Scott - great idea to get bids on making that room work for you. In my room, I removed a fireplace. During the process they put in more insulation and, honestly, that’s the quietest room in the house now. Maybe you’d like that, too. Good luck!

If you want to hide your workspace, try frosted glass between the walkway and the study. It allows light penetration but dims the view. Work spaces can often become a bit cluttered, and you don’t want to have a clearly-visible messy space.

Maureen’s second option looks fabulous! Black metal and glass wall with two tall doors. WOW! And 😎 too! Don’t know about sound issues, but a great, interesting solution.

I like that third image of the collapsing pocket door. I wonder if something like that would work for my space? I guess it probably would considering the opening is 8ft. Ya'll have really opened up the thoughts and ideas! Thank you!

I was looking at some standard slabs, I was liking this. If I got two of them for double doors. Not sure if that would work. I liked the Walnut stain, it goes well with our accent walls, we have a couple custom made walnut pieces in the house and this would be a nice contrast in the hallway to the accent wall colors (we have two accent walls using the green color, one you can see in the study shot, the other is adjacent to the right of the study).

But I don't like the idea of having to worry about doors swinging open. Now that I am looking at Maureen's images, perhaps I need to really think about pocket door. I wonder if that is going to be feasible.