Is this what 99% of mumsnetters homes look like

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After all these interior design threads this is what I'm imagining everyone on mumsnets homes look like. Just curious if I'm way off because iv never been in a home like this. Maybe if the person is in their 80s. Do people really have bookshelves?

:) Love it

We have many bookshelves, plus stacks of books in various rooms to put on shelves whenever we get around to it. Plus a lot of children’s books stored in various ways - floor holders, wall displays, lined up on chest of drawers. Sometimes I wonder what our cleaner makes of us having stacks of books (some which are more than a metre high) in pretty much every room. It must look odd.

Our house doesn’t look like those pictures. It’s got lots of things mumsnet hates - bifold doors, big island, big corner sofa (as well as lots of vintage furniture and original art).

Nope, at the moment re-reading the Giordano Bruno series

The effects of generational illiteracy and low levels of literacy in the part of the world where Dolly Parton grew up are harrowing. Books and the education they allow access to are the way out of the grinding poverty of the hollers of Appalachia and all the equivalent communities worldwide. Her initiative is incredibly important.

absolutely love it

Nothing like it. Bookshelf in spare room. No squishy sofas. Untidy.

I don't have a library room but yes, I do have a few Billy bookcases.

We certainly do have bookshelves, in the room we call our office we have 6 billy bookcases, with extension top shelves filled with books. In the lounge I have a basket with a few books, in the bedroom both bedside tables have the current books and those next in the queue! I did get asked if my bookshelves were a faux background once. We love our books but the majority in our office / den. Last count about 800 books, fact and fiction.

Dolly Parton is a legend re her reading initiative. And for part funding the Moderna vaccine. Her tales of her childhood are shocking and she is a force for good.

Yea is there a middle ground?! Yes I have books and shelves for them to live on lol. No my house does not have a fancy library style room

That's almost three books a day?! Arethey picture books?
I'm a fast reader but this seems completely unbelievable.

Ditto, I'd love a room like that with all those bookcases! I have plenty of bookcases but not the stylishness,

I have some between bookends on the floor...

I don't have multiple bookshelves, just the one, and it does look a bit like that, yes. Stuffed full and untidy though, and with a 2-foot pile of more books on the floor beside it. If I had the space for a study, it would be lined with bookshelves.

My house is made entirely from books. That's how clever and MC I am.

I have piles of them by my bed which then serve as handy coffee tables for phones and snacks...

It doesn't look cluttered, not having bookshelves makes you look not very intelligent. Yes I know many people use e readers but there are so many out of print/academic books that are not available on e readers, or clunky to read in that format.
It is also really important for children to have access to a large variety of physical books.

I am an avid reader but don’t have book shelves . I use my kindle or borrow from the library. If I was wealthy I’d probably have a study/reading room with lots of shelves of books .

I read a lot, I’m also in a book club….no bookshelves.

We have no wall space so whilst we have lots of books I have one small bookshelf in the kitchen. (Large kitchen so no where near where cooking happens) and a small bookshelf in my bedroom with a double pile of books in front that I step over getting in and out of bed and often lose small items amongst.

My teens all have books in their rooms though they're all heavily curated to be those that they think are cool.

Their childhood books are stashed away in the attic for grandkids.

My house is nothing like that. Even the pics make me claustrophobic.

I do have lots of books. But in cupboards.

No, not picture books. I’m a fast reader and had a long commute.

As a guide, it takes me about 15 minutes to read a full length Agatha Christie book (which is obviously shorter than most modern novels), 45 minutes to an hour to read most modern full-length novels. I generally read 1-2 books a day.

Thing is op we tend to socialise with people similar to ourselves. So your friends/family probably have similar styles and interests.

I'm v. Sporty, DH is v. Sporty, lots of our friends are the same, we would think nothing of having sports stuff left out or gym bags stacked visible, a friend has bikes and snowboard mounted on the wall. To some people that would be absurd but we're all used to it, you just get used to what you see a lot.

Lots of people have books and bookshelves though and usually it's just the genre or content that varies, are you quite young? I think once you get out in the world a bit more and see a different variety of houses it's more common to have books on shelves than not tbh

So you have bookshelves to make yourself look intelligent ok 🤣🤣. Do you actually like them or is it just to show people your intelligent.

It doesn't look cluttered, not having bookshelves makes you look not very intelligent. Yes I know many people use e readers but there are so many out of print/academic books that are not available on e readers, or clunky to read in that format.
It is also really important for children to have access to a large variety of physical books.

ofgs. Get a life

" makes you look not very intelligent "

Are you taking the piss? Who cares?

I have a lot of books and I have ZERO out of print academic books. What are you talking about?