Bookshelves in toilet yay or nay (cookbooks btw)?

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We have a lot of cookbooks which I want to put on shelves but we have nowhere in our kitchen to put shelves except the wall facing you as you walk in which is also visible from the front door so I don't want them there as they will look messy, and it's also where the xmas tree goes. DH suggested shelves in our downstairs loo which is between the kitchen and utility and a good size, and 2 shelves would easily go above the shelf thing where the cistern is built in for the toilet iyswim? It feels icky to me, but I'm not sure if I'm being daft? They'd be way above any splash zone even for the most 'artful' men so logically fine hygiene wise but ......... just feels wrong to me, opinions please? TIA

No. Just no.

Nope sorry!

I am not a generally fussy person but that does not seem right to me. It's a bit yuck.

Um no.

Ha ha! Thanks DH knows better than to go against the wisdom of Mumsnet so back to the drawing board damnit!

No...

No.

That is beyond hideous as an idea.

i am a yes.

i mean if one is happy to put your toothbrush near a loo, i can't see any issues with books being in there.

Cookbooks no, comics and funny books maybe.

Cookbooks?? 🤢
Why can't they go in the utility, if you don't want them in the kitchen?

@burnoutbabe

i am a yes.

i mean if one is happy to put your toothbrush near a loo, i can't see any issues with books being in there.

Our toothbrushes are nowhere near a loo, they're in a cupboard.

That sounds icky to me, too.

Put them on the wall where you were worried they'd look messy, but shelve then by colour so they become a feature.

I am very far from being a germaphobe but the idea of keeping cookbooks in a loo is really quite revolting.

Poo particles and cooking really don't go together.

metro.co.uk/2019/02/15/toothbrush-probably-covered-poo-particles-8641664/

Why would a bookshelf "look messy" anyway? People have bookshelves in all sorts of places without finding this an issue, or resorting to hiding the books in the toilet.
Odd as hell.

Cookbooks in the loo would put me off my food. Regardless of how much space there was.

Ours live on a specially built-in shelf above our fridge. Looks great and also keeps them ‘in sight and in mind’.

Is that a possibility for you?

I wouldn't put them in the loo or the kitchen (they tend to get greasy over time). It depends how many you have, I have the small ones in a drawer and the rest on a shelf of the bookcase in the next room.

Eurgh...Surely better looking messy on a shelf as you come in than using the toilet as a place to store books especially cookbooks...no.

No!!!

Absolutely not! I mean, I know people have often books and magazines in there but reading about what goes in one end while sending it out the other doesn't sit right at all.

I've got bookshelves in the loo in the way you describe above the cistern, but I wouldn't have cookbooks in there (mine are in a kitchen cupboard). The loo bookshelves have comic & joke books, gardening books & travel books.

I don't really have an issue with the hygiene but it's just impractical. Cookbooks should go in the kitchen. Who cares if they're visible from the front door and 'look messy'? you should see my gaff
Maybe find somewhere else to put the Xmas tree?

And anyway, appropriate loo books are humour books, collections of poetry/jokes/aphorisms etc, IMO.

Yes, why not with a door covering them?

No.

Loo books are a bit of a posh thing.

I would say cookbooks are a no though. Food pictures and toilets don't really mix!