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?

Nothing like as smart as that, but yes, my house is primarily decorated with bookshelves full of books.

Yes they have books and they have shelves in their bedroom so on occasion when their rooms aren't destroyed. Yes you could call it a book shelf the odd one makes it's way on there

Lots of books, lots of colour, lots of clutter.

You would hate it, OP.

Bookshelves in literally every room of our house, including the bathroom. .

What can I say? We read books.

I have bespoke bookshelves exactly like your picture. Floor to ceiling so I could fit everything in and the odd plant/picture alongside too.

Ha I know what you mean, was trying to work out what the average mumsnetters house looked like from the other threads and how stylish they really looked 😂

No that amount of stuff makes me feel panicky

Everything I hate! I’m a huge reader but I now limit myself and DH to two shelves each on a bookshelf and our bedside tables. DD has no limit as she’s only 5 and has tons of books in her room. Rest of my house is void of colour and plants, very much minimalist. Maximalism gives me a headache.

The rug/carpet in the first photo is hideous.
I actually quite like photo two 🤣

My house is very cluttered but it doesn't bother me. It's just different preferences isn't it? I like my books where I can easily reach them.

Some of my happiest childhood memories are of browsing in bookshops. My DM used to leave me in the book section of WH Smith whist she went off and did her shopping! I sometimes had finished the book she bought me by the time she had put all the shopping away!

There was a bookshop in my childhood town which was in an old building which was all different rooms, on different levels with creaking staircases. My idea of heaven. It then moved premises to a modern box shaped shop, just wasn’t the same

Keeping books is not hoarding!
I wish I had bookshelves as nice as those...
3000+ books in my house, bookshelves in every room, on the landing, in the hall.
I use a kindle as well.
Desperately struggling to de-book [a bit] before our retirement downsize!

My house doesn't look quite like that, but I've had bookshelves since I was quite young. Not to mention the ones in boxes, and cupboards.

How insulting to think that only the over 80s would have them!

And I have bookshelves- but not as many as these pictures. I would love some custom built ones though, I have loads of books. Most of them get donated after reading and only the absolute favourites make it to the permanent book shelf!

That's the wankiest thing I've ever read.

We mostly read on kindle now and have made an effort to get rid of books we don't really need but still have plenty of bookcases and books. Mainly our books fall into one of those categories:

Out of print or difficult to obtain books we reread
Books we are sentimentally attached to
Cookbooks
Children's books
OS maps/guidebooks

We also use our bookcases for other things like boardgames, displaying Lego models etc

I don't think of books on bookcases as "clutter" or as "showing off" - that's weird to me. But I also wouldn't judge someone for not having books on bookcases in their living room - that is also weird to me

@Nightblindness, you are my people!

I have always had book shelves. One of my most treasured possessions as a child was my own bookcase full of my own books. I have got a kindle now and have let a lot of my books go to charity but I still have two bookcases. Ridiculous really I have read them all but I might want to read them again and some of them have sentimental meaning.

OP, thank you. You've really amused me and rattled some cages here! I'm chuckling. Please post again! You're very sharp. Very refreshing.

Well, they look nothing like any uk lounges of any of my bookish friends either. Only seen rooms like this in hotels…

Point is, though, that 99% of MNers’ homes do not look like this.

Yes mine looks just like that. I’ve got loads of books. But that happens if you do an arts degree and marry someone who did an arts degree in a pre digital time. Plus I’ve got the oka cushions too

I have no bookshelves at all

Read my kindle every single day

The one on the right looks quite like my sitting room, except mine’s bigger and there are more books..

I don’t have books on the door, partly because I didn’t think of it.

What exactly is ‘American’ about those images? Am I missing something?
And ‘dated’??

This.