I'm moving in with my parents and nana, with my kids. Various reasons for it, but I have a kind of small bed sit room, and the DDs have a bedroom next door. Then my nana has her own granny flat and my parents have the main living room. We're not rich or anything, it's a big house because it has three houses worth of people in it :-D. Me and the kids (and everyone really) kind of roam the house, we basically just sit wherever what we want to do is happening, but we have our own spaces to be 'in charge' of.
ANYHOW. Sorting out stuff to move in, I've got rid of a lot, but refused to get rid of any books. This means that most of the wall space in my room is covered in bookshelves, but I like it, I think it looks cosy and increases heat insulation (single glazing is cold when you are used to houses that aren't full of random draughts...) and soundproofing (I'm a single 30yo, I have important discussions with my friends and netflix marathons to do without earwigging children/my parents/slightly confused old lady). They say I'm being ridiculous and that nobody needs to lose 23cm of space around the edge of an already small room to catch dust on books that I'll probably never read again anyway.
So... AIBU? Does my radically reduced personal space (but increased available living space) require a reduction in printed paper?