A unique decor style that can instantly turn your dorm room into a homely place, while also allowing you to add elements distinct to your personality, is boho.
If you too are looking for some boho dorm room ideas, you’re in the right place. Stay with us as we cover some of the most appealing, cozy, and individualistic boho dorm room inspirations for you to try.
You won’t need any other list after reading this one. Let’s boho, I mean begin!
31 Boho Dorm Room Ideas
1. Earth Tones and Plants
Sticking to earthy tones and adding plants to your dorm room can make it a boho paradise. Simply using warm colors (like brown/rust) in bedding and flooring coupled with smartly placed plants can give you the easy boho look.
2. Pockets of Light
Boho decor uses pockets of light instead of illuminating the entire room. You can use this principle for your boho dorm room, too, and complement it with wicker baskets, wooden flooring, greenery, and area rugs.
3. Minimalist Boho
Boho can be overwhelming for some. If you want to ease into it, you can start with your study corner. Adding fur cushions, wicker baskets, and area rugs can help you enjoy the boho mood without being too excessive.
4. Boho All Around
For a grand boho dorm room experience that takes up the whole room – you can add multiple elements like tapestries, rugs, and textured cushions. It can be a good idea if you feel like going all in while staying tasteful.
5. The Messy Boho
There’s just something about messy boho decor that can’t be beat. The seemingly disorganized tufted blanket, random plant placement, and industrial wall lamps can come together to create a beautiful, homely, and truly personal bohemian expression.
6. A Trip to the Past
Boho is all about being free-spirited. You don’t have to be trendy; as you can experiment with antique-style furniture, patterned bedding, gothic wall hangings, and patterned wall paints (or wallpapers). Not all dorm rooms might allow this, but it’s worth trying if you can!
7. Elegance and Art
Painting your walls a deep teal, hanging some bold and centered art, adding a patterned carpet, and using a vintage-style bed can create a remarkably sophisticated boho dorm room. Boho can have a lot of ingredients, but it doesn’t always need to.
8. Selective Boho Experience
If you wish to experience boho decor without changing the entire look of your dorm room, you can use this idea as an inspiration. It dedicates a drawer corner to boho with elements like wicker pots, hanging pots, and cotton lampshades.
9. Study Corner Boho Inspo
You can also utilize sunlight even when it is only in a corner of your room. Place a wooden study desk there, add some plants and wicker baskets, and see the golden sunlight adorn the dark furniture.
10. Boho Trinket Shelf
A shelf with multiple small can be a clever way to add boho elements to your dorm room, especially if you can’t make many big changes. You can decorate the shelf with various trinkets, souvenirs and decoration pieces for an eclectic personality.
11. Bohemian Bookshelf
You can use the bookshelf in your dorm room as an outlet for your boho creativity. Taking inspiration from this image, you can beautify yours with assorted colorful banners, potters, trinkets, candles, and photo frames.
12. Like a Dream
You don’t always need to go overboard with boho decor, especially because dorm rooms have a limited space. You can have a truly pleasant bohemian experience with simplistic macrame decor, intricate rug, wicker potters, plants, and some multicolored cushions.
13. Grayscale Inspo
If you like gray, you can incorporate boho themes with elements like dark macrame decor, gray bedding, gray flooring, and gray curtains – complemented by a slightly flamboyant orange headboard. Multi-colored cushions can also create a distinct contrast
14. Explosion of Colors
Yes, boho generally has earthy tones. But it also represents a free spirit and individual expression. If you have a vibrant heart, you can try countless unique combinations with colorful bedding, drawers, cushions, and lampshades.
15. Flashy Patchwork Quilt
Grab all the attention with a colorfully explosive patchwork quilt. You can further beautify the room with multicolored curtains, tribal art, and some retro storage. If your dorm has access to sunlight, that is even better to make the colors pop out!
16. Girly Boho Dorm Room
For all the girls out there, adding elements like string lights, macrame curtains, and unique mirrors can effortlessly give your dorm room a boho yet feminine vibe. You can further enhance it with fabric lampshades and tufted pillows.
17. Girly Boho Study Corner
Similarly, you can quickly uplift your dull study corner with boho elements like hanging macrame decor, wicker bins, string lights, and tufted throw pillows. Throw in a little desk plant, and you’re all set.
18. Wicker Beds
Wicker beds are uncommon, but a great ingredient to boho-ify your dorm room. Coupled with a patterned rug, quilted blankets, and colorful cushions, there is little more you need to create a comfy boho dorm.
19. Beige Theme Boho
Perhaps one of the coziest and homeliest boho dorm room inspirations, everything here is perfectly balanced – and the earthy beige theme is remarkably consistent across the flooring, bedding, walls, and furniture.
20. Wild West Boho
Boho is always open to personal interpretation.
If you have an affinity for the Wild West, you can hang hats instead of macrame, Wild West art, and colorful mirror frames for decor. It also adds a masculine element for all the male dorm room residents.
21. Boho in the Details
If you are a lover of intricacy, you can design a dorm room like this where everything from the bunk bed to the sheets, slippers to the dust bin, and drawers to the wall art have some unique detail. It doesn’t get any more boho than that.
22. Authentic Boho Dorm Room
While overwhelming for some, adding the sheer variety of boho decor elements in each corner can create a truly authentic experience. To implement it successfully, ensure that everything from the walls to the floor have a boho ingredient.
23. The Relaxed Bohemian
Or conversely, you can experiment with relatively few boho features like hanging hats as decor elements, which is not only unique but also looks quite cool. You can add colorful cushions to contrast the cool white look of the room.
24. Floral Magnificence
This might be hard to pull off for some, but elements like floral walls, floral art, and floral bedding bring an element of boho elegance to your dorm room. This style is quite different from the traditional boho that features macrame and wicker.
25. Eccentric Headboard
Boho is all about creative freedom and experimentation.
An intricately designed floral headboard will amp up your dorm room’s boho vibe. Complement it with floral cushion covers and fabric lampshades, and your boho design will definitely stand out from the rest!
26. Authentic Boho Work Nook
A dedicated work nook can flawlessly capture the authentic boho mood you’re aiming for.
You can complement elements like beige wooden flooring with wicker pots, natural light, and hanging plants. You can then gradually let the boho vibe take over the whole room.
27. Play with Natural Light
Pockets of natural (or artificial) lighting are a big part of the boho aesthetic. If your dorm has access to a window, you can recreate this look by just adding plants, rugs, and string lights to create a boho look that is unique and really cozy.
28. Mixing Orange and White
Add a unique personality to your dorm room with an orange and white color. You can add a brown bed sheet for earth tones, which will create a remarkable contrast with orange. Adding some plush tufted blankets will make the room feel even more comfy.
29. Vibrant Tapestry with a Photo Wall
Regular tapestries can get boring. You can create a colorful boho room by hanging tapestries with bright colors. To further personalize the room, you can utilize the remaining space with a photo wall. The more different colors you try, the more unique your dorm will be!
30. Grunge Boho
If you’re a fan of grunge music (or any music), you can maximize the space and still enjoy the boho aesthetic. How? Instead of hanging the tapestry, turn it into a bed sheet and utilize the wall space for your favorite Nirvana and Kurt Cobain posters.
31. 100% Boho
If you’re not easily overwhelmed, you can create a boho dorm room from corner to corner. Embroidered headboard, hanging macrame, tufted throws, fur cushions, intricate rugs, woven lampshades, and ornate drawers – your hundred percent boho room.
What’s your Definition of Boho?
With this list, you’ll get your inspiration fix for boho dorm room ideas for the conceivable future. It features something for everyone – whether you want to stick to minimalism or go all in with everything boho.
Remember that boho decor represents bold personal expression, so it can take on many forms and styles depending on your artistic preferences and inclinations.
