Boho or boho chic is a design for those who want their home to be filled with life, carefree and bold colors. Having absorbed everything that is most relaxed and unusual, this space design option is ideal for creative people who are not alien to the free flight of imagination. Only here you can see a unique combination of oriental and French motifs or a luxurious antique mirror next to a colorful homespun rug. In a word, this design is designed to maximally reflect the inner world of the inhabitants of the house and create an ideal atmosphere for creativity.
What is boho chic style?
The name comes from the word Bohemia, the region of the same name in the Czech Republic, where a large number of Roma lived. Therefore, this style is so similar to the image of this people. It is bright, a little disheveled, fickle, creative and as free as possible, just like its similar trends: classic, glamor and eco.
There are many interior design options in this direction. For example, using ethno-boho style, you can express your creative nature with the help of national elements and decorative items of your favorite country. Or you can unleash your inner hippie by abandoning any rules. Only universal love and optimism, expressed in artsy colors, geometric patterns and hand-made products in a boho interior.
Boho style in the interior
This direction allows you to compose the entire interior from elements radically different styles. In this case, harmony must be maintained. The most important thing when decorating a space is that it should maximally reflect the character of the owner and his favorite activities.
Color
The interior in the boho chic style does not have a specific color scheme. The most common are warm earthy (brown, terracotta) and metallic colors. Precious metal and stone tones such as rich purple, fiery orange and electric blue are often seen in accessories and decor. White or acidic shades will look out of place in a boho chic interior.
Boho style accessories
Each accessory should tell the story of the people living in the house. Exquisitely decorated boxes, vintage bottles, cards and porcelain from different sets - everything is limited only by your imagination. Fans of this trend travel a lot, so the room contains objects and ornaments from all over the world.
It should be mentioned that this direction in the interior tends to combine non-standard things. But this does not mean that this style is devoid of attractiveness and glamor. So don't be afraid to decorate the ceiling with a crystal chandelier or hang an exquisite gold-framed mirror. The only rule is that every item in the room must be in harmony with the decor.
Boho style furniture
Vintage items that you can’t buy in the first store you come across most accurately convey the boho charm. Their shapes, style and sizes are not given as much importance as in other directions. You can combine completely different objects, but each of them should have its own story. For this purpose, antique and vintage items are specially purchased. Victorian furniture is most suitable for this purpose: couches and sofas in rich colors with dark frames and carvings.
Materials and finishing
The comfort in the room is mainly created through textile accessories: voluminous curtains, sofa pillows, wide blankets, soft poufs. With their help you can create several small corners for relaxation. There are no boundaries when choosing the decoration of a room. Repairs can be budget-friendly or, conversely, using expensive natural materials.
Colorful and unusual decor
When you decide to recreate the idea of a bohemian style, remember that there are no decor rules in it. But it is vintage and hand-made things that will fit into it most organically. Antique items can be purchased at a flea market or found by rummaging through your grandmother's chest. Perhaps some of them have their own history and will find a place in home interior. For example:
- beautiful boho paintings in vintage frames;
- colored platbands;
- moldings;
- souvenirs from different countries;
- figurines;
- garlands of lamps;
- posters and wall ornaments;
- globes;
- accessories for curtains in boho style.
Boho style kitchen
Have you always dreamed of a colorful set of kitchen utensils or pink curtains? The kitchen is a place where any color can be combined. Feel free to add a color accent to your countertops or kitchen cabinets. In the kitchen, chaos is acceptable in the form of cans, preserves, multi-colored kitchen utensils, and bundles of dried herbs located in plain sight. Living plants in pots, as well as real herbs in flowerpots, will help decorate the kitchen. A vintage chandelier will look best here.
Living room in a variety of directions
Boho classic strives for classic forms. Having chosen it, buy furniture with straight and strict shapes. With the help of velvet, lace and tapestry, you can create the right accents in the living room.
Boho-eco is suitable for those who prefer natural materials in the home. Leather, silk and natural wood will add sophistication and charm to the living room.
The hippie direction in the living room provides an opportunity to unleash inner freedom. It embodies originality and is rich in detail. self made.
Bedroom: relaxed and casual
The bedroom in this direction is a stronghold of comfort and a place for creativity. The bed is not mandatory element(you can get by with a mattress), but if you choose it, then purchase spacious bedding sets and a large colorful blanket. The lines of bedspreads and curtains that flow down to the floor seem designed to create an atmosphere of ease and relaxation, making every day a day off. When finishing, use natural materials and do not forget about original decor: pillows, souvenirs and woven rugs. The more ornaments you can collect, the better the idea will be conveyed.
Colorful children's room
Boho helps create real fairy world in the children's room. A bright and unusual nursery in this style will appeal to all children, and the decor for it can be made with your own hands at your leisure. The creative atmosphere is expressed by a riot of colors: colored rugs, patchwork blankets, drawings, toys on shelves, as well as walls on which you can draw. You can do all these design details together with your child.
Gypsy distinctive feature it is considered a deliberate display of wealth - all the gold that is there is put on at once.
Homes to match: accumulated porcelain and tapestries, antique carved furniture, marble... Of course, if you have the money.
Among the poorer gypsies, in the foreground there is also an exhibition of everything and everyone, with the difference that instead of marble there is a board, and instead of silk carpets there is a simpler rug:
2. In general, habitat The habitat of the gypsies is Eastern Europe. How the owner of this home wandered into Provence is a mystery:
3. This girl has such a passion for sewing that even the door cash is not visible. Instead there is braid.
4. The gypsy soul knows no end either in decorations or flowers. The dining room is all in the colors of May:
5. Antique dishes. Spoons-forks – silver. Gypsies don't eat aluminum.
6. Due to the abundance of flaps, all the rooms in the house are mixed up so that you can’t tell where the bedroom is, where the living room is, where the kitchen is. An old sofa can be seen through the thickness of blankets, which means this is a formal living room:
7. There used to be a stable in this house. Upholstered with boards and hung with fabrics, now it is more like a tent for nomads.
8. In principle, there is no new furniture in the apartment - everything is old, in some places dilapidated.
9. Even the fabrics are mostly from grandma’s blankets:
12. But this room with a plate on the wall looks like a dining room:
Bright, insanely colorful interiors, sometimes crammed full of all sorts of accessories, alas, are not to everyone’s taste, but the owners modern houses Those who find it difficult to part with their favorite things call their territory boho chic. This interior does not shine with ideal cleanliness and a strict color palette, but it has the same nobility as in the classics and the wisdom of oriental interiors. Boho-chic is the style of bohemians, that is, those who long ago moved away from gypsyism and learned to live and think in shades, turning their home into one of the works of art.
French Bohemia was once considered almost the patrimony of nomadic people who rode around in wagons and pitched colorful tents. The ideas that the gypsies gave were quickly systematized, turning into folklore, only those who controlled it adopted freedom of expression and began to live without adhering to the socially accepted conditions for the design of city houses. The interior, saturated with colors and accessories, did not rebel, but it was possible to to feel like a part of what was called art, be it the room of a poet or the veranda of a servant of Melpomene.
The boho-chic style in the interior, which has survived to this day, fully corresponds to the principles adopted earlier: there are no strict rules for arranging furniture, however, the color scheme is based only on those shades that exist in nature, and the costume of the room is never cluttered , since there are no unnecessary things. The feeling of a junk shop does not arise even in those homes where accessories are found literally at every turn.
There is no point in talking about the mass appeal of such an interior, since only a designer who knows how to focus attention on everything at once can create such housing. Boho chic is a style that not even all bohemians can afford, who prefer loft or minimalism with their clear idea of the amount of everything that should be in the interior.
The sleekness of some rooms is not for the boho style: although it seems crazy at first glance, in reality it is not. Let's walk through it and give an assessment different rooms and define the principles by which modern home decorators create it.
Trying on boho chic at home
An essential feature of the boho chic style in the interior is natural materials. Here are 3 basic principles that correspond to a “glamorous” home:
- sufficient amount of wood with textiles;
- The stone floor, which is covered with handmade rugs, is welcome;
- there is practically no wallpaper, but a lot of whitewashed walls, painted plaster and wooden floor beams.
There is no place for high technology here, with the exception of technology. Even when the room is loaded with furniture, it is easy to breathe and you can feel comfort in every corner. the simplicity of the interior is everywhere, but accessories on tables, bedside tables, shelves, and whatnots can cost a lot of money if they are part of scattered collections brought from exotic countries.
Boho-chic reflects the owner's wallet, the taste of this person and always shows where his heart lies.
Gypsy style in the interior? No, this is a house with special taste!
Boho chic is a mix of many styles, as in it you can find the oriental direction, African enthusiasm, the severity of Italian palazzos, classic massive furniture, French simplicity in the kitchen, ethnic melodies of a varied bedroom, and even neo-baroque in distribution of interior features. There is no specific inflorescence in the interior, just as there are no strict sets: furniture in houses is assembled in single copies, and their vintage direction dominates over everything else, although it is not forbidden to have a rococo-style chest of drawers in the house.
Boho chic is not a gypsy style in the interior: it is a house with a special taste, and its good mood can be found everywhere: from the office and library to the kitchen and laundry room. There is no boredom in such an interior, but there is a desire to touch everything with your hands and even become part of the overall plan, sitting on the sofa, stretching out your legs so that there is still room for a guest.
If we compare boho and minimalism, then in the latter accessories such as mismatched figurines, unfinished sculptures, colored vases and much more are not particularly welcome. The bohemian appearance of the house suggests being completely opposite in terms of its saturation with objects of art, and they will stand not only on shelves and tabletops, but also on the floor, on window sills and even on flat roof cat houses.
Boho chic is not for those who decide to bring into the house everything they can get their hands on from the nearest flea market. The interior will have to be tied to a certain look, that is, select the main part of it and start decorating the interior from it. For example, you were lucky enough to purchase a sofa from the late 19th century. He will have to change the upholstery to a brighter one, buy or sew capes with large flowers or floral patterns, prepare 6-7 thought pillows and the same number of pillows, but much larger in size, since they will also have to decorate the space near the sofa. Textile curtains are selected for the pillows, which will have a huge number of ruffles, the walls will have to be decorated with panels and embossing, lamps with large fabric lampshades, and with different sides put armchairs, ottomans, deep chairs with low legs and so on on the sofa. The main thing is that the center of the room remains the center, but with the intention that this is a home stage, requiring the presence of a mental pedestal and an auditorium.
Since “gypsyism” has flooded out of us, then let’s immediately get rid of ostentatious luxury, but let’s dilute the too simple interior with expensive antiques, be it mirrors in massive wooden frames, decorated with gilding and stones, satin tapestries, brocade curtains. If you manage to mix the cheap general plan with expensive accessories or furniture, then your boho chic will be almost perfect in terms of filling the space.
Neighborhood boho chic interior with an incredible amount of textiles
The textile interior of the boho-chic style positions itself not only in the form of window drapery, but also transfers the guest’s attention to the covers that are placed on sofas, armchairs, stools and chairs. Their diversity is irreplaceable, but it will have to be diluted crocheted rugs, rugs in patchwork style.
At the same time, expensive sanitary ware is covered with handmade works, and in front of an expensive oak sofa lies a simple rug woven from the remaining skein of coarse yarn.
A distinctive feature of such cute decorations on the floor and furniture are plant motifs and ethnic weaves. geometric shapes and natural reality, prints with city views, checkerboard and two-color stripes.
Boho-chic style in apartment interiors
In apartments where boho chic has recently moved in, preference is given to leather furniture, but it is necessarily mixed with wicker and wooden furniture, be it a rocking chair or chairs in the dining area, although there is no such thing in this interior. The kitchen is separated from the public rooms, and its wooden tables, shelves and other furniture attributes do not need doors and are covered with textiles in a small pattern.
Chests are an essential part of a boho-chic decor, and in the living room, not in the bedroom. The living room is the place where the main furniture of the house is assembled, and so that this room is the central part of a large nest, ready to accommodate both owners and guests.
A house in the boho-chic style seems a little ironic, but for some reason you don’t want to play pranks in such an interior, but there’s no room in it bad mood. They not only raise it rich colors, but also unusual accessories, such as clay skulls from which homemade flowers grow, or hooks for ploughshares on which to hang large mugs for tea.
The boho (Bohemian or gypsy) style originates from France and spread from there thanks to the creative life of nomadic students who decorated their temporary housing with bright decor at hand. The interior looks bright, overly colorful and rich, there is an organized disorder that is characteristic of the younger generation in wandering conditions.
In the photo there is a living room with yellow walls, a carpet with a bright print and leather poufs in oriental style, boho eclecticism combines the interiors of many nations.
- Antique and forgotten items for decoration can be found in your grandmother's chest or attic, things with family history will distinctive feature interior design.
- There are no rules for combining colors, but in order to avoid emotional discomfort, it is better to think through the integrity of the design, alternating textures and colors of textiles.
- Homemade decor will be the best decoration for a boho interior.
Distinctive style features and colors
First of all, the boho style is distinguished by its range of bright natural colors and the boldness of their combination. The interior combines from 4 to 8 shades in different proportions and without following the rules of combination. The basis for color creativity is bedspreads, paths, panels, patterns on furniture, curtains and homemade lampshades.
Boho interior is loaded with an abundance of decor and a lot of accessories that create a feeling of disorder. All decorative items are important for style; only favorite and symbolic things for a person are used. Creative interior design encourages development creative beginnings, abilities to create new things and implement plans.
Boho Features:
- Wooden furniture and decor, a large amount of textiles.
- Bright and at the same time natural colors (raspberry, light green, sky blue, marsh).
- Abundance of decor.
- Eclecticism (a combination of different textures and colors, borrowing from different styles).
- Simple furniture, lack advanced technologies and trends.
The most popular colors in boho style are: red, blue, orange, grass, yellow. Berry and natural shades of these colors are used, there are no acidic combinations. Combined bright colors in the interior without rules and precautions. In order not to overload the style with colors, the walls and background furniture can be white, gray or beige.
In the photo, the Bohemian interior of the living room combines modern bright panels with classic stucco on the fireplace.
Varieties of style
The boho style and the nature of its disorder are also different, so you can divide the boho interior into the following categories:
- eco-boho (with wooden furniture and natural textiles);
- hippie-boho (with floral and animal prints, fringe, baubles and beads on floor lamps);
- chic-boho (high-quality furniture and upholstery, expensive carpets, classic decor, clutter);
- art-boho (modern paintings, rhinestones, crystal, glass, fur and satin decoration);
- classic-boho (ethnic motifs, bright natural colors, combination of different furniture).
The photo shows a boho living room with a patchwork carpet, different finishes walls, a combination of metal and wood. Wooden ceiling with beams is not decorated with anything and is an independent style decoration.
Apartment interior in boho style
Kitchen
The interior of a kitchen in the boho style is reminiscent of country in the simplicity of the set, where all kitchen appliances are hidden in built-in cabinets, since boho is not modern style.
Often instead of chairs there is a small sofa or sofa.
In the photo on the right is a fragment small kitchen boho with brick wallpaper, bright chairs and a soft corner.
Living room
A living room in boho style looks like a gallery or exhibition due to the abundance of decor, figurines, and flowers. The furniture here combines glass table With leather sofa, fur rug, antique and modern wardrobe.
A fireplace, a large panel, fabric floor lamps, velvet, poufs, and forged design elements are combined in one room.
Bedroom
The bedroom is a platform for realizing your imagination; there is wooden or iron furniture on legs, an abundance of textiles, bedspreads and pillows.
The photo shows a purple bedroom with an openwork canopy and a chest. Floral curtains in a cool shade make the room cooler.
Antique is combined in one interior with oriental motifs. It is better to choose shades that are as muted and pale as possible to promote relaxation.
Children's
In the boho interior, the children's room develops the creative curiosity and natural curiosity of the child.
The photo shows a children's room with classic wooden furniture and a bright designer chair. Boho is expressed in an abundance of flowers, patchwork bedspreads and a garland on the window.
Many textures develop tactile perception, and the abundance of colors does not let the baby get bored.
A patchwork blanket, crafts, soft pom-poms, flags, pillows, and a drawing wall will give your child vivid memories.
Bathroom
A boho-style bathroom emphasizes vintage furniture (dressers and cabinets) and modern fixtures.
If there is a window, it should be decorated in classic style with lambrequin and garters. The decor will be walls with oriental or African designs on tiled friezes. Here you can set aside a wall for an art gallery or decorate it with a Moroccan rug.
Finishes and materials
Walls
In the boho style, the walls are decorated with plaster, plain paint, wallpaper with texture or ethnic patterns.
On the picture pink bedroom with wall decoration with colored wallpaper with a pattern, which combines oriental and classic interior motifs.
Also in the interior, the walls act as a backdrop for colorful decor, so the pattern on the wallpaper should be neutral.
Floor
The floor in the boho interior is made of stone (marble, granite) or boards, light or dark laminate. Flooring always decorated with carpet and paths.
Ceiling
It can be white, colored, single-level, plasterboard or with wooden beams.
Furniture selection
Furniture in a boho interior is a combination of classic and rustic furniture. Most often this wooden furniture, simple massive and antique with carvings and bright upholstery.
Boho as a cluttered style combines leather armchairs, modern chairs, a Provence style buffet, a classic round sofa, wrought iron and a wicker rocking chair in one interior.
In the photo there is a yellow suede sofa and crimson armchairs with wooden frame. The carpet on the wall and floor is reminiscent of the creative eclecticism of the boho style.
Boho has no signs of chrome fittings, trim or glossy surfaces.
Selection of textiles and curtains
In boho style there is never too much fabric; it hides the simplicity of life and old furniture. Textiles do not match each other in texture and color, this creates a Bohemian interior. Cotton is combined with satin, linen with velvet, almost the entire interior is created from boho-style fabric: chair covers, bedspreads, runners, carpets, rugs, poufs.
On curtains you can often find Moroccan or oriental designs, Indian and African motifs. Curtains should be as loose as possible, with drapery and abundant waves that will echo the canopy or tablecloth. Blinds are also suitable roller blinds, tulle
Lighting and decor
Lighting
There are as many sources in the room as needed for sufficient lighting; in the boho style, the emphasis is on appearance chandeliers and floor lamps.
You can decorate an ordinary lamp yourself by making a frame and hanging ribbons, lace, colored threads, and tassels. Suitable for the kitchen designer chandeliers from bottles or cans. Glass sconces can be painted with stained glass paints, and fabric floor lamps can be decorated in a boho style with beads, beads and glass beads.
Decor
The boho style is manifested in the little things, it is the complete opposite of minimalism, the shelves are replete with figurines, books, boxes, paintings, there are bright panels and paintings on the walls, there are a lot of plants on the windows, and collectibles are stored on the shelves and on the floor.
The boho interior emphasizes the creativity of the apartment; hand-embroidered, painted paintings, decoupage, and crafts made from wool and beads can hang on the wall.
The photo shows a bedroom, the simplicity of which is decorated with the maximum amount of textile decor to create comfort in a nomadic life.
Photo gallery
If you respect the line between bad taste and creativity, the boho style will make the interior of your apartment stand out from others. Eclecticism and the combination of opposites creates a unique look for a room and makes it dynamic for change. Below are photo examples of boho style interiors in rooms for various functional purposes.
