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?

We have bookcases but not nice big whole wall bookshelves like that. Its a dream though. One day, when the children have moved out and I get my study back...
For now though, I have a bookcase where the books are two deep on the shelves, with more piled on top of the ones stood up normally. I've ordered new bookcases, a bigger one for DD who has run out of room in hers, then I'll take her old one upstairs to go with my bookcase and hopefully get the books all in properly, and one bookcase for DS who is developing his collection of books now.

The OP was referring to the poster who is on 142k and hungry for more!

LOL at the idea that reading is only for rich privately educated people when it's how poor, working class, immigrants have pulled themselves out of poverty for centuries.

Small one in the bedroom also shared with shoes and things

Every room in my house has books, most floor to ceiling others with individual shelves. Even the bathroom has a small corner shelf. I am not comfortable with books. My adult dc all have books too though perhaps fewer than me. My (now deceased) dh was a senior lecturer in English, I taught Eng Lit and was a senior English examiner and my ds works foe a publisher. Beyond my family and friends books are my life.

We have a floor to ceiling wall of book shelves downstairs, book shelves in the upstairs hallway and all the bedrooms. Since I buy all books on kindle now they probably stop abruptly at about 2012.

Love the rooms in the pictures but they are not like our house.

Why have you tagged me I didn't write that I'm just curious about how others live

Clearly not as I did not mention out of print academic books.

@DragonFly98

here's your missing " / ". Typo rectified.

I read a couple of books a month but then they go to the school I work at as there is a bookshelf in the staffroom. I don’t want bookshelves in my lounge or books lying around. Kids have shelves with books on in their rooms.

I have physical books that have been left me by parents and grandparents, some with inscriptions in - holding them makes me feel connected to their previous owners. You don’t get that with a kindle. I have my A-level textbooks, books that were given to me by people I care about, classics that I reread, atlases and dictionaries, travel guides bought by my husband for places he wanted to see but died before he could. Children’s books I had as a child and keep for my grandchildren They hold memories and information and photos. They have their own smell, they are tactile. Absolutely nothing to do with trying to be intellectual. Kindles are for airports

I never said you did I was replying to a comment that said she earns a 100 and something thousand a year because of reading and its because she's privately educated

I have floor to ceiling bookshelves in the alcoves either side of the fireplace in the sitting room, plus similar sofas to the right hand picture, low tables and large lamp. I love the door! We each have bookshelves in our studies, there are shelves in the kitchen for all the cookery books plus a smaller unit in a guest room. I’m not in my 80s and have always had bookshelves. When the children were at home they all had them in their bedrooms as well.

In the interests of verisimilitude, I made no preparations at all for taking this - so it's considerably less tidy than the nicely staged opening photos. But not entirely dissimilar.

We have a large number of books in the house and have one room which acts both as the library and my study. I now work from home and I find it a very calming environment in which to work. My desk isn't tall enough so my laptop is raised by sitting atop a lectern bible. Our books have escaped the confines of the library, so the upstairs hall and bedrooms all have overloaded bookshelves as well. Personally a house full of books (and cats) is my idea of heaven.
However, we also have a grey painted living room that has a large wall mounted TV, and no bookshelves.

I suspect I'm damned here on two counts. 🤣

This is how I want my house to look. It's not far off.

Pointing out the inconsistencies with belief is not necessarily mocking.
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Do the people who have no books on public display and children's books only in their bedrooms have toys in the living room? Are books only for bedtime?

We have bookcases. One in the living room and one in a spare bedroom. I generally read a book once and then donate it or give it away but like to have somewhere to keep books I love and can't part with!!

I have a study/library, with DIY floor to ceiling bookshelves. I wish they were as nice as those in the pictures. The walls that you can see are dark red, with dark red chesterfields sofas, not particularly matching, and a huge oak desk that we salvaged from a demolition site. I'm thinking about painting the shelves dark red instead of oak.
I have more floor to ceiling books in the other room, one on the landing, more on the inner landing, which used to be a walk through bedroom and isn't any use for anything else; and more in a guest bedroom.
I also have a Kindle.

I'm not 80 yet…

im not a reader I had adhd and can not concentrate on books how my teachers picked it up in primary school however how do you have children and not a bookshelf

I have a bookshelf. I have so many books but my house is nothing like this!! Until I can afford it it’s secondhand shelves and the odd IKEA.

Plants on the windowsill.

But I live in a small London 2 bed flat without a balcony - maybe one day. Will add your pics to my moodboard.

2 floor to ceiling bookshelves and a small one in the living room.

1 in our bedroom

3 large in sons room

1 in study

1 in spare bedroom

books on windowsills/side tables/floor

far more mess, chaos, toys and random shit than those pictures… there is a trampoline, 2 wobble boards, 2 pogo sticks, a giant peanut ball and a skateboard in the living room. And a suit of armour.

Lounge does not have any book shelves but does have a large sideboard of board games.
study has 1 whole wall of book shelves, some books double stacked.
All 3 kids and us have tall books shelves in bedrooms and we have boxes of old kids books in the attic.

We have toys and books in the living room there not displayed there In toy boxes but they tend to be more picture books, or activity books with textures, flaps, sounds ect. As the ones that mainly stay upstairs are story books for bedtime. But my kids can and do bring them down at times

@Tetsuo

I do find the desperate rush to demonstrate how many books you are hoarding to be a little cringeworthy.

Physical books are not morally superior to their digital siblings for the most part.

I think most posters were merely answering OP's question. I did. It took me slightly by surprise that someone would find having bookshelves odd or something that only the elderly would use.

I love reading and have bookshelves with books going back to my childhood. DH isn't a big reader and tends to have one or two next to the bed. I don't feel in any way morally superior to him well not from our reading differences anyway! I also have a Kindle, but like reading from both. Keeping books and reading is something that is important to me on a personal level.