I currently live in a 6* bedroom house, the asterisk is there because I live in the one bedroom of this rental house that is not a bedroom. It's a den, connected to a converted, private bedroom.

The landlord made it obvious that the two rooms were connected but not in the nature that to enter one room you would have to go through the other.

I'm a person who strongly privileges privacy, like to the point that lacking privacy drives me crazy. It's been a constant thorn in my side. To make up for this I installed a curtain blocking off my room from the doorway/hallway.

But it doesn't make up for the fact that my roommates having people over or creeping through at night disturbs me seriously. Or for the recurring incident of my roommate leaving the door open. Etc, and my roommate in the adjacent room has proven to be the type of person not to care.

So I wanted to ask to build a non-load bearing drywall wall into my room, which would make the first 1/4th of the room into a hallway for the private bedroom, while partitioning off my room from the open area but making it a lot smaller.

It seems cheap and easy to build, it costs one month's rent, it would add value to the house, alleviate the awkwardness of the rooming situation and give me privacy. It's also certainly cheaper than me leaving the lease (If I left the lease the wall would pay for itself in one month.)

However, my landlord is not a level headed person (there's a high chance he would freak out from the request), and I'm only leasing this place for a year. Beyond that, the room is steal for D.C. and he has leased the room to many people before me without complaints (I'm assuming.) I debate whether it's worth it to push it, in fact the idea of even having the convo stresses me out. But, I still think it's a win for all involved.

Should I even bring it up. And if so, how should I do it?

I personally was planning to get quotes and stuff, contact the real estate agency and learn about the contract, and get all my facts and numbers in order before approaching the landlord. And then taking it over from there, there has been work done in the house before (he built a door into the wall for one converted bedroom to have more privacy.) So I can't imagine it being too much of an issue, but once again I would prefer advice.