Bohemian Decor: The COMPLETE Guide for Your Home.

The decorating of your home is very important for you to feel good in your space, relaxed, and to recharge your batteries.

We often underestimate the impact of interior decoration on our health. A space that reflects your personality will positively influence your life, making you happier, more optimistic, and reducing your stress. There’s nothing quite like coming home or inviting friends over when we are proud of our decor.

The bohemian style emphasizes varied colours, textures, and materials within a room, creating a warm, artistic, and free-spirited atmosphere in your home.

In this guide, we will provide detailed insights, along with illustrations, on bohemian decoration for each room.

1. Decorating a Bohemian Bedroom

The bedroom is the most intimate space in your home, where you can express yourself freely in your decor. Having a bedroom styled to your liking is not just about aesthetics; it will enhance your sleep and reduce your stress. Feeling comfortable in your bedroom is essential for a good night's sleep and for feeling great throughout the day.

Boho chic bedroom ideas

Wall Décor for Your Bedroom

There are many ways to beautify your bedroom in bohemian style. Let's start with the headboard. You can opt for an artistic or ethnic headboard rather than a simple wooden or upholstered one. Bohemian tapestries are a fashionable way to achieve the ultimate boho look. Hanging a wall tapestry is incredibly easy and can instantly transform your bedroom's appearance. Use bohemian, tribal, or ethnic tapestries, or even those with mandala prints for a unique style. Besides tapestries, you can simply adorn your walls with artificial plants, a bohemian painting, or a classic dreamcatcher to ensure sweet dreams and restful nights.

Find inspiration in the decor below, featuring a mandala tapestry or a dreamcatcher.

Bohemian wall decor with dreamcatcher and mandala tapestry

Bohemian Touches for Your Bed, Cushions, and Bedspread

For your bed, simply combine an ethnic bedspread with bohemian-style cushions to create the perfect boho chic look. You can choose a subtle approach with a beige bedspread and colourful, tribal-style cushions, or be bolder with a highly colourful, ethnic bedspread paired with more understated beige cushions that soften the overall look.

Various bohemian bed decor ideas with cushions and bedspread

2. Decorating Your Bohemian Living Room

Similarly to your bedroom, you don’t need a bunch of boho accessories and elements to create a bohemian living room. A few key pieces can make for a welcoming space that exudes an artistic spirit and invites you to travel. Let’s explore how to transform your living room into a unique bohemian chic retreat.

The Bohemian Rug: The Foundation of Your Boho Living Room

If you want to create a hippie chic atmosphere, the rug is undoubtedly the most pivotal item. The style of your rug immediately sets the tone for the room. It’s simple: choose a beautiful bohemian rug or an ethnic design, and you’ve completed 50% of the work in achieving that boho look for your living room. Check out these stunning rugs for inspiration on selecting your own.

Here’s a collection of bohemian rugs in muted tones for a more streamlined bohemian look leaning towards Scandinavian style.

Bohemian rug ideas

Here are some examples of boho chic interiors featuring muted bohemian rugs. This creates a relaxing and uncluttered atmosphere, while still echoing the bohemian culture.

Bohemian living room with understated boho rug

Now let’s look at some examples of more colourful bohemian rugs, which lean more towards the hippie chic style. Below are some vibrant patterns you might consider for your rug.

Pattern of colourful bohemian rug

Here’s what it looks like in real life. A beautiful colourful rug combined with other bohemian elements creates an atmosphere that invites relaxation and travel.

Living room with colourful bohemian rug

At Boho Via, while we love the understated bohemian look, we cherish the more vibrant style even more. If you’re interested, you can find a wide range of quality bohemian rugs on our site.

Accessories for a Successful Bohemian Sofa

If you wish to buy a new sofa, then natural fabric sofas are ideal for achieving a successful bohemian look. However, it’s not necessary to purchase a new one. A simple beige sofa cover or a few bohemian cushions will do the trick. We love cushions because they are economical and instantly change the vibe of your sofa. Take a look at these bohemian sofas and get inspired by their decor.

Bohemian cushion on sofa in living room

A Bohemian Coffee Table Next to the Sofa

Opt for a coffee table with natural colour and design. A wooden coffee table is perfect for enhancing the bohemian vibe in your living room. Alternatively, you can simply add a linen or cork cloth over it to give an immediate hippie chic touch to your coffee table. Check out our ideas for your coffee table.

Chic bohemian-style wooden coffee table

Don’t Forget the Bohemian Wall Decor

The finishing touch for your living room is the wall decoration. There’s no need to repaint everything; you can simply add a few bohemian elements to complete your living room’s look. Decorative accessories such as an ethnic wall basket or a bohemian painting will fit perfectly. As with your coffee table, opt for natural accessories; cork decorations are particularly trendy at the moment.

Wall decorations for living room

3. Bohemian Bathroom

To achieve a boho-style bathroom, don’t hesitate to incorporate plants (real or artificial), natural fabrics (cotton, linen), and colourful ethnic shower curtains.

For a touch of nature, use water-loving plants in your bathroom. The room’s natural humidity will allow the plants to thrive, giving a natural, authentic, and bohemian feel to your bathroom.

Combine the plants with colourful ethnic or tribal shower curtains and a bohemian bath mat, and you’ll create a unique bohemian chic bathroom with a natural vibe that will make you want to linger in the shower all morning.

Chic bohemian bathroom

4. Bohemian Kitchen

A bohemian kitchen evokes relaxation, inspiring you to innovate in your cooking with very artistic decor. The vibe of a boho chic kitchen is full of character and personality, radiating warmth and freedom.

This type of design involves personalising the space with a mix of colours that can be surprising, alongside unusual textures and other elements.

The bohemian culture is inherently free and uninhibited, sending the message that you can move to the rhythm of the wind and music without fear of following your instincts and heart.

The decor of your kitchen will help you enjoy cooking and explore bold, delicious flavour combinations. A bohemian-style kitchen can easily become the heart of a home. Here are some examples to inspire you and give you ideas for a bohemian kitchen.

Two Boho Chic Kitchens

5. The Difference Between Bohemian and Bohemian Chic Styles

You’ve likely heard the term bohemian chic, but we’ve noticed that most people aren’t aware of the difference between traditional bohemian style and bohemian chic style. While both share similarities, they are distinct.

To put it simply, the bohemian style stems from the hippie culture of the 1970s. This is why you might occasionally hear the term hippie chic instead of bohemian. The bohemian style consists of natural elements and is very colourful. In your home, the bohemian style is represented by a multitude of colours, textures, and different materials, creating that bohemian hippie ambiance reminiscent of travel and bringing an artistic flair to the room.

The bohemian chic style, on the other hand, is a blend of Scandinavian style and bohemian style. A chic decoration is much more streamlined, featuring softer, pale colours (reflective of a modern Scandinavian look), combined with colourful bohemian decor elements or more natural materials that contrast and add intensity to the space.

See the difference for yourself: on the left is traditional bohemian style, on the right is bohemian chic style merging modernity with boho.

Difference between bohemian and bohemian chic decor

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