Bohemian Decor: The COMPLETE Guide for Your Entire Home.

The decoration of your home is crucial for you to feel comfortable in your space, relaxed, and to recharge your energy.

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

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

In this guide, we will present in detail, with illustrations, the bohemian decoration style, room by room.

1. Decorating a Bohemian Bedroom

The bedroom is the most intimate space in your home and the place where you can go all out with decorations. Having a bedroom in a style that you love is not just about aesthetics. It will directly improve your sleep and reduce your stress. Feeling good in your bedroom is important for restful sleep and staying energised throughout the day.

Wall Decor for Your Bedroom

There are several ways to beautify your bedroom in the bohemian style. Let’s start with the headboard. You can choose an artistic or ethnic headboard instead of a plain wooden or padded headboard. Bohemian tapestries are a trendy way to give a room a boho look instantly. Hanging wall tapestries is incredibly simple and will transform the look of your bedroom right away. Use bohemian, tribal, ethnic or mandala-printed tapestries for a unique style. Besides tapestries, you can simply decorate your walls with artificial plants, a bohemian painting, or a well-known dreamcatcher to make your nights sweet and dreams wonderful.

Get inspired by the decor below, featuring a mandala tapestry or a dreamcatcher.

Bohemian Decoration for Your Bed, Cushions, and Bedspread

For your bed, simply combine an ethnic bedspread with bohemian-style cushions to give your bed the perfect boho chic look. You can go for a subtle approach with a beige bedspread and tribal-style colourful cushions. Alternatively, go bolder with an ultra-coloured ethnic bedspread paired with more muted beige cushions with embellishments to soften the overall aesthetic.

2. Decorating Your Bohemian Living Room

Just like in your bedroom, you don’t need a ton of boho accessories and elements to achieve a bohemian living room. A few key items are enough to create a warm, artistic space that invites exploration. Discover with us how to transform your living room into a uniquely bohemian chic area.

The Bohemian Rug: The Foundation of Your Boho Living Room

If you want to create a hippie chic vibe in your living room, the rug is undoubtedly the most important piece. The style of your rug will immediately set the tone of the room. It’s simple: choose a beautiful bohemian rug or one with an ethnic design, and that'll take care of 50% of the work in achieving a bohemian look for your living room. Check out these stunning rugs for inspiration in choosing your own.

Here’s a collection of bohemian rugs in neutral colours for a more minimalist bohemian look that leans toward Scandinavian style.

Some examples of boho chic interiors with neutral bohemian rugs. This creates a relaxing and minimalist atmosphere, while still echoing bohemian culture.

Now let’s check out some examples of more colourful bohemian rugs. This style leans more toward hippie chic. Below are some colourful patterns you can look for in your rug.

Here’s how it looks in real life. A beautiful colourful rug paired with other bohemian elements creates a look that invites relaxation and adventure.

At Boho Via, while we love the subtle bohemian look, we adore the more colourful style even more. If you're interested, you'll find a whole range of quality bohemian rugs on our site.

Accessories for a Successful Bohemian Sofa

If you're looking to buy a new sofa, then natural fabric sofas are perfect for achieving a successful bohemian look. However, it’s not necessary to buy a new one. A simple beige sofa cover or a few bohemian cushions will do the trick. We love cushions because they are an economical way to change the entire vibe of your sofa. Check out these bohemian sofas for decoration inspiration.

A Bohemian Coffee Table Near the Sofa

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

Let’s Not Forget Bohemian Wall Decor

The finishing touch for your living room is the wall decoration. There’s no need to repaint the whole space; you can simply add a few bohemian elements to complete the look. Decorative accessories like an ethnic wall basket or a bohemian painting will do the job perfectly. As with your coffee table, favour natural accessories, such as cork decorations that are very trendy.

3. Bohemian Bathroom

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

For a touch of nature, use plants that require lots of water in your bathroom. The natural humidity in the space will allow the plants to thrive, giving a natural, authentic, and bohemian vibe to your bathroom.

Combine the plants with colourful ethnic or tribal curtains and a bohemian bath mat to easily create a uniquely bohemian chic bathroom with a nature-inspired feel that will make you want to stay in the shower all morning.

4. Bohemian Kitchen

A bohemian kitchen is one that evokes a sense of relaxation and encourages you to innovate in your cooking with very artistic decor. The ambiance of a boho chic kitchen is full of character and personality, with a warm and liberated feel.

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

The bohemian culture is inherently free and uninhibited, sending a message that you can go with the flow and follow your instincts and heart without fear.

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

5. The Difference Between Bohemian and Bohemian Chic Styles

You’ve probably heard the term bohemian chic, but we’ve noticed that most people don’t know the difference between traditional bohemian style and bohemian chic style. While both have similarities, they are still different.

To keep it short, the bohemian style stems from the hippie culture of the 70s. That’s why you might sometimes hear the term hippie chic instead of bohemian. The bohemian style features natural elements and is very colourful. In your home, the bohemian style will be represented by a variety of colours, textures, and materials, creating that bohemian hippie atmosphere that reminds one of travel and gives a creative edge to the space.

The bohemian chic style, on the other hand, is a blend of Scandinavian style and bohemian style. A chic decor is much more pared back, featuring softer, paler colours (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 that blends modern with boho.