Do you live in a bohemian household?

[mousiemousie]

What are its characteristics if so?

Ah yes,stcky gussets help

Would agree strongly with no sport proviso.

No dust. No cats bottoms all over the velvet. Definitely no grubby bra straps. But I still want to be bohemian.

No no no, Siena Miller is not boho - she is just very good at wearing clothes....

Those of us who are over 35 were wearing those clothes when we were eighteen and were bohemian (lots of crumpled velvet, and candles, and big unfinsihsed artwork canvases dotted all around, and peacock feathrs and lots of sex outdoors and wild parties and neo-pagan celebrations while someone called Julius filmed us with a £100 Arts Council grant before we all retired to a coffee shop to smoke gauloises and talk arty bollocks...)

God i miss those days....
Now I'm a respectable, mortgaged, married ol' lentil weaver who aspires to being rich enough to be Bohemian again...

fmf!

Yup - burningDinosaurs has it. You do have to be steeped in the arts - or perhaps philosphy. Art for arts sake, or thought for thoughts sake.

It's not about sofas,, you load of systems ananlysts!

And you may well have an 'unconventional' relationship with apostrophes. Moondog.

Am still LOLing about Mousie's indoor sparkler!

What is a bohemian household...just got a few bits of a thread, and if it isn't being the norm...I suppose in this area (council/excouncil) we are, but wihtin the army/married quarter area we were pretty much within the norm, lol!

We are just poor, so often vaguely bohemian by accident I fear.. and not in a boho chic way either!

people often comment on our lifestyle as being bohemian (I suppose I do wear a lot of purple now that I think about it) but I don't think they've ever really meant it as a compliment - more as a comment on our v untidy, unrenovated house and the fact that dh and I seem incapable of remembering anything important at all.

I yearn for bohemianism, and worry frightfully that I don't make it. Certainly don't make it on the artiness front. I am actually trying to write a feature pitch on needing a kick up the arts.

I am writing (as in this moment skiving off from writing) a history of the drugs charity Release, does that count?

Ooooh, I think you are definitely bohemian, MI. You are a woman of letters. You have had unconventional relationships. You have sofas which don't match each other.

But how do you feel about insisting that Father Christmas really is real?

My house is not dirty or cold (or stencilled) enough to be bohemian.

no, not bohemian household here.... but ds's go to mega boho school!

Oh, and I have kids' drawings on my walls, that makes me bohemian, innit.

Hmm, am undecided about Father Christmas because my father told us virtually from birth FC was a myth. I think DD1 suspects he is, but enjoys deliciously borderlining with the idea...

mmmm... thinking more do have certain aquaintances who THINK they are boho chic... but are in fact plain unkempt. can identify common theme amongst them too, "too clever / intellectual to condescend to trivia like clean clothes for my kids..." [sceptical]

Also I have plates that don't match at all. And towels. And pillow cases.

My daughters match, though, almost identically

or even.

MI - your FC philosophy defines bohemian.

Especially the 'deliciously borderlining'.

i'm afraid i am probably MNer Least Likely To Be Called Bohemian

nearest i get is some noncey french poetry bought by an ex bf

the rest is pure unadulterated poncedom

If your central heating is on you're definitely not bohemian.

Ditto if you kids are in bed.

Sorry to rain on your parade MI but you are not bohemian; you go swimming. And not just in a floating aimlessly around a natural sun-dappled pool communing with nature kind of a way, but serious, energetic thrashing up and down a chlorine-infested 30m pool in the local leisure centre. Sorry. But I would be the first to admit that swimming is very good for one, physically and mentally, and shouldn't be sacrificed to Bohemian aspirations.

3andmore,one could never be Bohemian in military married quarters.
Although conceivable if one's dh a captain or summat high ranking...very Emma Bovary.

My parents are definitely boho - Grauniad readers, mountains of books, delipidated townhouses, old crappy cars...Growing up involved lots of homemade yoghurt and wholemeal bread, and being the only person in the school whose mother wore an afghan coat .

Where is MrsJohnCusack, who will vouch for me on such matters (having met my hippy parents)?

My parents are definitely boho - Grauniad readers, mountains of books, delipidated townhouses, old crappy cars...Growing up involved lots of homemade yoghurt and wholemeal bread, and being the only person in the school whose mother wore an afghan coat .

Where is MrsJohnCusack, who will vouch for me on such matters (having met my hippy parents)?

You are not Bohemian if you have even 1"squ of BEIGE in your home or wardrobe.
I think you do need a big table to sit around drinking wine and talking arty nonsense until the wee small hours. I have this but my lounge walls are ivory which look distinctly beige half the time .