Do you live in a bohemian household?

[mousiemousie]

What are its characteristics if so?

[ggglimpopo]

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[mousiemousie]

boboggglimpopo

[ggglimpopo]

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[boboggglimpopo]

or ggglimbobo?

[mousiemousie]

Agree re purple, good point

[lulumama]

my house sounds a bit like Poppynboo.....!

bit ecelctic..mish mash of styles...lots of 'things'.

lots of candles, open fires, pictures . looks lived in and enjoyed ...homely.....but not dirty!!!

[Bucketsofburntdinosaurs]

Don't forget there's a difference between Bohemian and being a Guardian reader in an ethnic skirt with a compost bin. I would theorise that marriage isn't very Bohemian, and nor is a mortgage.

[lulumama]

shabby chic...not bohemian!! bohemian always sounds so .....not arsed! and fey......

[boboggglimpopo]

Fey is a damn good word, Lulumama.

[Blu]

I may have to rethink, then - no purple currently in my wardrobe!

But DS has designed a rather flambouyant purple school uniform which he thinks his head teacher should adopt.

Arty, educated, not rich, have some rather 'anything goes' views - but try to keep them slightly under control - which is a bit un-boho....believe in things for the idea or concept rather than orthodoxy.

House a bit grubby (but I think that's optional)- and I did potty train DS in much the same boho approach that earned Twig her reputation - so it mmust be true1

[mousiemousie]

shabby chic is contrived compared to bohemian
bohemian is much more intellectual I reckon

all of you with dirt hang ups are clearly not bohemian however not everyone with a dirty house is bohemian so the dirt thing isn't really the pivotal point of it all

[lulumama]

i'm not contrived...i can;t afford matching furniture!!

[mousiemousie]

lulumama I bet the non-matching is highly tasteful and artful though

[southeastastra]

boho makes me think of the film withnail and i, or the programme the effing fulfords.

[Blu]

Bohemian is not a class construct - it can be very class-transcendant.

Think of the Bloomsbury Group:

Intellectual, in a part of town which in it's day was very much not posh - they specifically moved away from fashionable West End and Belgravia - sexual shenanigans left right and centre....

[boboggglimpopo]

Can we take the cats out of the equation? Am aspiring here.....

[lulumama]

hmmm....not sure about artful!


i don;t know.......is it possible to be just one thing?

most households are a mix of styles


bit hippy, bit boho, bit shabby chic, bit antique, bit modern...does it need a name......?

[Blu]

Cats????
No that's just organic hippyish cat-loving! Ugh!
Horrible animals!

[moondog]

Janitor's frined is on the right track.

Wuld also argue that copious amounts of velvet de rigeur for boho household.

Hmm,I think ours is a right wing and excessively orderly boho household...if such a thing exists...

[mousiemousie]

you can feed otehr people's cats, that counts fine

you need to read a lot of books to qualify and find stuff beautiful that other people don't

[lulumama]

is velvet boho? how so?

[moondog]

(Blu,you must deal with that errant apostrophe...)

[moondog]

Oooh,Lulu,velvet very boho.
Esp if purple


Red wine stains....

Artefacts from places like Morocco and Iran

Large dusty pots of spices of indeterminate origin

Complicate recycling systems cluttering up the kitchen