10 Bohemian Style Living Room Ideas

There’s a flair that goes along with Bohemian style decorating. It has to do with a state of mind that includes a love of color, culture, life and interesting objects. Bohemian style really has no set rules, but there are similarities which rooms share, even when each room has its own distinctive originality.

No Bohemian living room will be exactly like another. Some of these luxurious examples have elected to include just a touch of Bohemian style, while others are completely and gloriously filled with it. After all, the nature of the style is to be free about these choices…and these ten have made wonderfully enticing ones.

Embracing Bohemian decorating means including some of these features:

Warm earth tones, such as terracotta, brown and gold

Saturated jewel tones, such as ruby, violet, crimson, and sapphire or turquoise in artwork, accent pieces, tapestries and throws

Mixtures of patterns in abundance

Mixing and matching fabrics with different textures

Furnishings with fringe or tassels

Furniture which has been collected over time, with each piece having its own special story

Accessories collected from world travels, and may be offbeat, glamorous, ornate and vintage

The overall essence of the room should be relaxed, carefree, while including the exotic and interesting items from the corners of the globe

Exuberant Elegance

The golden accented arm chairs, fringed coffee table covering, vivid deep pink upholstered sofa and bright green chaise are elegant additions to this exuberant Bohemian room. The attitude of casualness is present in the luxurious draperies held by gold-toned tassels. The draperies are not pleated, but have the look of an excess of fabric pulled back from the floor to ceiling windows so that the voluptuous fabric doesn’t spill into the view. Bright pink carpeting covers the floor, and a mirrored side table catches the reflected images of the collection of favored objects displayed on the coffee table. A collection of small framed photos fill the glass table. Mismatched lamps, related by their gold and cream colors, are placed nearby.

Classic and Chic

Everything about this Bohemian collection is classic, from the vintage paired sofas to the richly patterned pair of folding screens. The overall color scheme of black, red and cream is relieved of any stuffiness due to the chic combination of textures and patterns. The pieces are obviously from varied cultures and times. White milk glass vases are present on the mantelpiece while a white woven basket graces the floor. The area rug is nubby, with black stitching. There is a Grecian urn in the center of seating area, resting on an exotic table and box. Favorite books and a miniature Sphinx grace the table. It’s a splendid room.

Finest Details

Nothing about the furniture in this living room arrangement matches. The rich warm brown leather sofa has sturdiness about it, while the woven reed chair with its bright silver metallic pedestal is contemporary comfortable. The transitional style wing chair rounding out the group is flanked by its own standing lamp. These two are quintessential home bodies. The coffee table is a vintage piece displaying a collection of intriguing books and smaller sculpted pieces. The unframed photography over the sofa is a brooding piece, but its colors echo the fabric in the throw pillows on the sofa below. The bright turquoise and black area rug is an art piece itself, and gathers the details of this room together into a fine collection of casualness.

Rich Colors and Patterns

Yearning for the exotic fills this living area. The electric blue, golden tones and vibrant jewel colors are accented with metallic pendant lamps, art frames, and objects. Gold shimmers in pillow and drapery fabrics, too. There are patterns of many kinds included in the furnishings. Though it has the flavor of the regions along the Silk Road, it is a Bohemian mixture of elements from many of the cultures which are found along the route.

A Bit Bohemian

This attractive arrangement is traditional in its organization, but filled with so many interesting textures that it transcends its commonplace set-up. The turquoise tufted sofa is a timeless piece with the color of Caribbean water. The blue upholstered side chairs feature lovely Batik fabric. The throw pillows are blue, gray and calming cream, which echo the colors of the air and sea. The hand-carved wooden coffee table is adorned with earthen pottery pieces, and the area rug below is highly textured, and the color of beach sand. The space, with its evocative textures and colors of sea and land, are evocative of island life and exotic places.

Trendy Luxury

A luxury of space is enjoyed in this living room. It’s a trendy loft-like area, complete with industrial pole and exposed stone walls. Bringing a sense of the Bohemian are the wildly colorful area rugs, scattered throw pillows, upholstered futons and wonderful collection of wooden filing cabinets and shelves. The furnishings beg for guests to lounge upon them. Free and open, with no side tables and just a few floor lamps for lighting, the living room exudes the essence of carefree, casual and colorful intrinsic to the Bohemian style.

Vibrant Sophistication

There is much to admire about this sophisticated interpretation of Bohemian style. The furnishings are decidedly arranged around the central coffee table and fireplace, creating a nice place for visiting. The end tables and lamps flank the leather sofas in traditional manner. Though the placement of these furnishings is customary, the bright juxtaposition of vibrant colors, patterns, mismatched tables, chairs and exotic art pieces brings a casual sensibility to the room. The room is an embrace of interesting objects, textiles and textures. These elements add just the right flair within the grounded sophistication of the setting.

A Unity of Shape

All the elements of Bohemian style fill this space with interesting layers of texture and color. Triangular shapes are predominant in the geometric patterns, and this gives unity to the collection of fabrics and accessories. Note the fringed doorway fabric, with its open-weave decorative triangles. The throws which cover the sofa and occasional chairs feature triangle patchwork, and the valance over the window is a mixture of geometric shapes. The colors on throw rugs and pillows are rich crimson and deep violet and are also seen in the ante-room adjacent. Artwork in unique frames, or frameless, fills the wall and lamps in the room are mismatched, though cohesively metallic. The jewel toned interior and warm woods are a pleasant contrast to the greenery seen through the window and doorway.

Airy Contemporary

This airy living space is filled with a cheerful mix of contemporary and vintage furnishings. The sofas are upholstered in jewel tones of rose and salmon and pillows with abundant patterns are strewn over them. The sofas provide a focal point of color. Surrounded by tree log side tables and contemporary end tables, the sofa pair is anchored by a striped area rug. The glass-topped coffee table has a gnarled wood pedestal, and a bonsai tree sits on top. A huge piece of driftwood serves as a sculpture, as does a decorative surfboard in the corner. Throws draped casually over the occasional chair and rose sofa add to the air of casual welcome.

Artistic Corner

There is an attractiveness about this space which comes from an almost hedonistic inclusion of artwork, books and comfortable furnishings. The corner is Bohemian artistic; with walls filled with art pieces. It’s very regal in its own way; much like a similar corner in an aristocratic manor house. But the vintage pieces which create this setting have been gathered by an artistic eye with a love for vivid pinks, greens, yellows and purples, and the furnishings are not royal. Yet, they are included with an aristocratic awareness of, and focus on, that which is enduring, and therefore, valued.

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