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?

Ignore last post - wrong thread - reported myself!

Lots of bookshelves here 😁

I'm always suspicious of books arranged by colour, though - makes them look like they're only there for show!

That does sound grim. I can’t realistically call myself working class anymore but I’m from a working class family and background and all of my working class family and fiends also have books and/or other possessions on display. E.g. DVDs, ornaments. Not minimalist.

I remember a teacher friend years ago,saying how so many children don’t have any books at home! I was shocked,our house has loads of books in bookcases in the study.A house without books is a grim place.

Do they still have dvd players or are they just for display

Nigella seems to have found a nice balance.

We have books in every room of our home and bookcases in most rooms. Reading is my escape and happy place! I buy most books on my Kindle these days, but still love the classics and reference books.

Are you joking? Yes, some people still have DVD players…

My house is a tiny, dirty, messy shithole. But it’s full of books and bookshelves. I could never not have books.

That genuinely makes me feel a bit funny - like that thing when you look at pictures of lots of holes

Yeah you did, you called yourself an ex-gay and made a whole thread about it but it got deleted. Now you're here telling people how books are evil or whatever. Honestly I feel sorry for you.

Traditional? According to what, fascism?

I'd love to have a room like the second picture, but my home has been taken over with toy cars. I've a large bookcase and DS has a bookcase in his room. I like to read but rarely the same ones over and over so use the library. Probably own 50 books and DS (4) the same.
I've tried reading on a kindle but I prefer the feel of a proper book.
I organise mine by author and date of release, for a pp who mentioned organising by colour, just because of a stupid organising habit.
I don't see books as clutter. They're life for some people. No judgement on you OP, I know many without books or very little of them and it makes no difference to me.

A bookcase crammed with books in every room here. It's a bit of a dusting nightmare....

We keep them here. The ladders are out of shot.

so you would find someone who is poor (but goes to the library every week), or dyslexic (but listens to 3 audiobooks a week), or who has recently migrated here to escape war/terrorism with literally the clothes on their back, or is in a hostel having escaped an abusive relationship deeply odd?
I'd find you deeply judgmental, and deeply unpleasant, tbh.

Yes to books and colours. Other than that my first floor may be smaller than those living rooms.

Interesting question. I am from an academic family. In my parents house five walls were covered in books, from floor to ceiling. Classics, history, languages, medicine, engineering, math, physics, belletrictics and sci fi, you name it. It does feel weird without reading, like a hunger, like you forget to brush your teeth (it would not kill you but it would make you feel so uncomfortable). A curiosity at the extreme level.

Kindle just doesn’t cut it for me. The reading experience isn’t as lovely.

I don't understand comments like this. I am reading a paperback right now, and I don't want to break the spine to keep the book open, but there is no other way to keep it open. I find reading enjoyable regardless of the medium I use to get my reading fix.

Actually my decor isn't that far from what you posted OP - a bit less stuffy/country and more airy/modern, but I do have a wall of bookshelves in the study and a sofa very like the one in the second photo.

Can confirm I'm not 80. Just a bit of a cheapskate, so I've picked up reasonable quality things over the years and kept them, whether they're currently in vogue or not, and mixed them up with inexpensive Ikea bits from where needed.

My mum is 80. She's given away or donated all her books and only reads on a kindle.
She's an avid reader.

She doesn't do clutter and her home is airy and modern.

We're all different.

Ok serious question here . Why do people keep books that they have read ,particularly fiction? Can understand non fiction,guide,factual books but I personally could never read the same fiction book again. Why keep those books when someone else could enjoy them ,gathering dust and using up space 🤷‍♀️

*t's not just the books that makes it look like the home of an 80 year old its the clutter the mismatched furniture'

A far preferable look to the sterile, laboratory-like look that's apparently popular.

This is my dream bookshelf. A Vitsoe. Maybe one day...