Natural materials such as wood meet decorative accessories, creative looks meet used-look surfaces:
A boho kitchen combines a cosy flair with individual details. The boho style stands for a colourful mix of materials, textures and colours that together create a harmonious overall impression. How do you decorate a boho kitchen and what characterises the style? We'll tell you how to create a boho kitchen design.
Kitchen planning details
Cosiness meets functionality: A boho kitchen combines typical elements of the home style with the practical benefits of a fitted kitchen. In a boho kitchen, you'll find natural materials, charming decorative elements, warm colours and details with a wow effect. The boho style thrives on unconventional elements instead of straight lines, on a personal touch instead of cool understatement. This allows you to design your cooking and dining area in a unique way and create an inviting atmosphere.
The word boho goes back to the term bohemian, a movement that caused a furore in the 19th century. It was primarily intellectuals and young artists who turned against the wealthy establishment and propagated a free, unconventional lifestyle.
The boho look is also unconventional: It brings together acolourful hodgepodge of furniture and accessories from different stylistic periods and materials. Natural materials and textiles and bright, soft colours paired with accents in bold tones dominate. These colours are characteristic of the boho kitchen:
Sand, cream and beige tones
Terracotta and other soft earthy colours
Mustard and golden yellow
Various shades of brown from light to dark
Olive green
These shades are used as eye-catchers and to liven up the look:
Dark, warm Bordeaux red
Light copper and brick red
Petrol and turquoise
a strong indigo blue
The striking colours can be used in the boho kitchen for (mosaic) tiles and tableware, for example.
Good to know: Light colours make small rooms appear larger. A small boho kitchen radiates more space and a cosy flair.
Try cosiness for a change: A boho kitchen is all about feeling good. The selected materials play a lion's share in this.
More is more: This is the motto for a colourful boho kitchen. The look combines elements from different eras and styles to create a harmonious whole. This works just as well with a classic line as with individual elements. Use decorations and furniture like these to create a boho kitchen:
For example, colourful, Mediterranean-style tiles for the kitchen splashback, floor and wall design. Open shelves provide a view of colourful glasses and crockery with a vintage look, while the lighting via hanging lamps with rattan or bamboo shades creates a warm, cosy light. Hanging plants also play their part in the typical boho style.
Tip: Store pots and pans above the cooktop on hooks on the ceiling. This adds variety to the overall look and provides convenient access to your cookware.
How do you decorate a boho kitchen? In principle, this is easy, because the motto applies: Anything you like goes. To bring visual calm and structure to the style mix, stay within one colour palette wherever possible. For example, use light-coloured wood as a base, add cream-coloured textiles and create focal points with a kitchen splashback made of colourful mosaic tiles.
The furnishings in your boho kitchen don't have to be new. A look at second-hand furniture and decorations can be worthwhile, as traces of use, irregular glazes and fine scratches give the kitchen furniture an individual touch.
Tip: Do you appreciate the clear lines of the Scandinavian interior design style and the creative details of boho chic? Then a Scandi boho kitchen is just the thing for you. The seemingly contradictory looks combine to create a design dream team of light-coloured woods, accessories made from natural materials and decorative plants. Choose wooden kitchen furniture with a purist look and add vintage decorations and textiles with rough textures.
