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?

I have bookshelves (and a dvd one) but my house doesn’t look like that, sadly!

Actually, that does look a lot like my house 😳

Sophie Kinsella is evil. Now I have heard it all. If pp is being serious... hard to tell on MN these days.

I keep the ones I know I’m going to reread, or some that are special (like a couple that are full of my dad’s handwritten notes and drawings, that I found when I was clearing his house after he died). Otherwise I pass them on.

But I reread a lot of them. Maybe because I have a terrible memory?!

• What do you do with your books JaneJeffer ? *Charities don't want them, and family etc all read different genres.

I recognise that username, let's just say that's not one of the weirdest things they have said and tried to justify with religion 🤦‍♀️

Sort of looks like my house tbf, I have book cases in my living room and bedroom, as do the children. White walls, lots of colour and art.

I don't understand people who don't have books around, although I do use a kindle. There's something about being able to sit down and curl up with a non fiction or reference guide, let alone a novel.

I don't have as many books as you would think I would, given my job (academic). I've got rid a lot of one-time read books to charity and I use my Kindle a lot, but still have a few piles of books about, things I'll read more than once, or got given, or I think the kids might like in the future. I'm not a floor to ceiling bookcase type of person but I love going round people's houses and nosying through their books.

For a good laugh, I used to follow 'Bookcase Credibility' on Twitter, I don't think they Tweet anymore.

Sounds like someone who has recently become involved with an evangelical church. Very unhealthy.

Why do some posters get all morally superior about owning and showing off how many books they have on threads like these?

I love reading, but does it really matter whether it is a physical book or an ereader?

I have both BTW, but simply don't have room for the acres of bookshelves that some of the show offs posters have.

DH has loads of books, some are very old, they annoy me sometimes, I have a few books, about 2 shelves of a Billy bookcase, which are dwarfed by DH's.

Huh? I wish I had more bookshelves tbh as I end up giving some away. I mainly read on kindle now, if I didn’t we’d be overrun!
I have a bookcase in an alcove and a cabinet thing that houses some hardbacks.
I’m way off 80 😆

I find a house with no books/bookshelves deeply odd.

Books aren’t clutter. Particularly not if tidily on a bookshelf.

Best be careful with those Bibles then, as you don't want to know what some of them get up to in there, even when they apparently even have the approval of the Big Guy.

Oh my goodness no! 😄 I've got loads of books which I love but I've been through the stage of having shelves and bookcases and I have absolutely hated them all and the dust they can gather. I'm far from a neat freak, but they just do my head in. I've converted a reasonably sized cupboard so I can have all my books safe, sound and on hand and somewhere where I can just look at them (💞) without having them on shelves wherever I turn.

Books, board games, art.. I would hate to live in an all grey/monochrome interior, it would feel boring and depressing. And "mismatched" furniture tells a story! A Chinese chest we got from one family side. Dining chairs I absolutely loved and paid too much for when I had very little money. Nana's piano used by generations of children. And, it is not that hard to keep it dust free especially as children grow and can tidy their bedrooms.
(And btw my 14 year-old buys - and then often resells- loads of books and has two bookshelves in her room - also gets books from library or friends; and 11 year old boy is pretty much the same)

Have the idea of free libraries or whatever they used to call them died out.

We used to have one a work, i.e a bookshelf in the canteen. If you donated one, you could take one. Never policed or anything but worked well.

Oh good grief my house has much higher ceilings for all the books 🤣
Its not clutter either, its maximalism.
Mis-matched furniture, done intentionally.

Charity shops still take them here.

Our house is full of books. You'd need to take all those books out though and put them all back sideways and backwards and and stacked in different uglier directions to get a closer idea of what my house looks like.

Yes to the books. No to the tidiness and general co-ordinated-ness

My house looks a lot like the second photo. Except I have more books. Many more books.

I am not 80, I am 33.

Most people I know have bookshelves full of books.

Do people really have bookshelves?.

Yes! And I'm constantly trying to find more ways to fit more bookshelves in my house.