Is this what 99% of mumsnetters homes look like

[Damaged27]

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?

The fact they don't have physical books displayed on a bookshelves doesnt mean they don't read. Ever heard of kindles?

No, too much dusting, too much clutter.
When I’ve read a book I pass it on or donate to charity shop.
Majority of what I read is on Kindle.

I don't have a house like the ones in your first post. I don't like too much stuff or furniture, hate nick nacks, too many cushions and am not a fan of carpets and curtains (we have blinds and shutters). I have a few plants but couldn't tell you what they are, but they're from IKEA and are, so far, unkillable.

I like reading though, I have books that I treasure and I have a nice floor to ceiling bookshelf upstairs along the wall on the landing. It brings me joy.

People are different. Different tastes, different hobbies, different homes. Doesn't make any of us wrong.

@ZebraPensAreLife

Genuinely pleased to have found someone who reads faster than me.

Always felt like a bit of a freak to be honest.

We have a bookshelf in the office and a bookshelf in my husbands den , I prefer my lounge to be clutter free aside from the dogs toys and bone collection .

You sound insufferable.

I don't read much. I threw away a lot of my books because they were evil. I have about half a small bookcase's worth of a few things, including some Bibles etc.

I hide my books in a cupboard because if I see one it starts calling out to me, asking me why I don't read it anymore

Bingo!

I knew it wouldn't take long for the first judgemental post to appear.

For the record, I do have bookshelves, but apart from recipe books I now buy all my fiction books to read on my kindle.

My preference to read is in bed, and DH doesn't want the light on while he is trying to sleep, so I read my Paperwhite instead of a paper book.

I’ve never heard of that.
Maybe that’s a good reason to start using the kindle again.
However that’s a little like Netflix algorithms. All we get now is murder and mayhem because we’ve watched that for a while.
Id actually like different genres occasionally, that I can chose and skim through in a library.
Just to be be able to make the choice myself and diversify whenever I want to.

In what way were they evil?

I have both a kindle and books , prefer books . So yes I have bookshelves in one room .

Not really a reader". Oh OP...
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I've never understood this mindset. Genuinely sad for you on this. *

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We have bookshelves in every room of the house (except the bathroom). When I was a little girl we had one bookcase in the house and I was so excited when I got my first books and a space on the shelf. We even have a bookcase in the hall. We’ve also given away hundreds and hundreds of books. When we extended the lounge we lined both side walls with shelves. I also have 1000 books on my kindle.

I don't have a bookshelf.

I tend to buy 3 books at a time, kept on or in the nightstand.

Once the 3 are finished, I give them to someone else I think might enjoy them or the charity shop I pass walking to work.

I think the only book I've read twice is To Kill a Mockingbird, once in school & once as an adult. I don't understand keeping them.

Evil?

Absolutely, people should have their homes how they like it, it would be boring if we where all the same. But I do find it interesting Learning about the differences as I do feel we all surround ourselves with people who are similar to us

Those bookshelves are for amateurs - ours are double stacked, we know half of the 2,000+ books should go - we just don't know which ones they are.

These two pics are very different apart from the abundance of bookshelves!

I have a lot of books, on bookshelves I had designed and installed, and my house looks more like the pic on the right. Albeit smaller.

My dad always said "books make a room" and I agree but then we are from the sort of aspirational working class family who believed education was the way up and out of poverty, so books were a representation of that, I think.

Loads of bookshelves here, some of them double-stacked.
I do need to do some ‘weeding’, though, and pass quite a few on to charity shops.

Maybe the OP is like a MNer some time ago, who posted that she saw books on shelves as ‘clutter’. 😱

Good god no. Too much clutter

and a distinct lack of 'imo', for instance in the phrase 'they make the room look awful'.

I should have said they make MY room look awful. They really do.

If you read them backwards, do they spell the name of the devil?

Some more extreme things such as occult texts, but also my beloved Chick Lit such as Sophie Kinsella, which has the occasional suggestion of premarital sex, and some feminist/progressive stuff like The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys.

We had a very large bookcase built to accommodate 'regular' books plus all the larger-than-average ones about subjects we are passionate about. This way they can stand on shelves rather than having to lie flat one on top of the other. I love my books. I also use a kindle but I'd never live in a house without books.