8 Bohemian Bedrooms Trek Effortlessly Into Style
True boho style seems effortless and authentically artful, and bohemian bedrooms are no exception. But don't worry, you can fake it
If you were the wild-child heir to a European fortune who preferred to spend time in North Africa exploring souks and hosting dinner parties for expat artists, your bedroom might look like this.
Bohemian style is difficult to create, because the very key to doing it successfully is to make it look completely effortless and unplanned. There are some must-haves: fabrics and patterns from around the world, art (especially old art), books and a certain devil-may-care messiness.
But it is not simply eclectic. It is not neat or matching, and it is definitely not modern. Jonathan Adler is modern eclectic, but he's not exactly bohemian.
True boho magic is achieved only when the room looks as if you just gathered all the interesting things you've collected on your travels and combined them with all the good books you've ever read, then tossed everything together with a few old family portraits in gilt frames and some mismatched pieces of wooden furniture.
Nothing can match. Lamps don't necessarily have to work, and best of all, you don't have to make your bed if you don't want to.
Anthropologie is the modern master of faked bohemian artsiness.
Bohemian style is difficult to create, because the very key to doing it successfully is to make it look completely effortless and unplanned. There are some must-haves: fabrics and patterns from around the world, art (especially old art), books and a certain devil-may-care messiness.
But it is not simply eclectic. It is not neat or matching, and it is definitely not modern. Jonathan Adler is modern eclectic, but he's not exactly bohemian.
True boho magic is achieved only when the room looks as if you just gathered all the interesting things you've collected on your travels and combined them with all the good books you've ever read, then tossed everything together with a few old family portraits in gilt frames and some mismatched pieces of wooden furniture.
Nothing can match. Lamps don't necessarily have to work, and best of all, you don't have to make your bed if you don't want to.
Anthropologie is the modern master of faked bohemian artsiness.
Positive boho signposts: mixed ethnic patterns, dreamy but sloppy canopy and clustered art in mismatched frames. Points off for neatness.
Boho signposts: Lots of North African elements, mixed patterns, a slight hippie look. Points off for lack of weird art.
It's a little modern, but its boho signposts — art, layered fabrics, shoes on display, chandelier — are strong. Major points off for lack of books and old art, however, and for those matching bedside lamps.
Boho signposts: stained glass; mismatched lamps, tables and patterns; and vintage linens. Points off for lack of books, art and a scarf draped over one of those lamps.
Books! Ethnic patterns! Mismatched patterns! Boho points off for neatness, matching lamps and the lack of old portraits.
Old house, that's good. Funky wallpaper. A faded rug and some small, eclectic art. All good boho cred. Points off for the lack of books stacked on the floor and any true ethnic patterns.
Well, the stark white is a little clean and bright for the true Gertrude Steins among us, but everything else — the patterns, art (note the portrait) and general mismatchiness are all very well done. Major boho points!