Get Your Copy The New Bohemians: Cool And Collected Homes Planned By Justina Blakeney Released Through Digital Paper

The New Bohemian's book is a wonderful sourcebook for bohemian inspired interior design filled with clashing colour, patterns and styles.
I really enjoyed going through each page and am inspired for redecorating my studio, I did really enjoy studying the details in all of the photos of the spaces, and reading the captions.
It's a pleasure to read this book cover to cover, even if it's designed as a coffee table book to peruse.
I also appreciated the honest nods to budgetfriendly creative use of IKEA and eBay, which isn't typical of interior design books.


But now that I've finished, I would basically describe The New Bohemians as a book featuring a collection of white people who: really love kilim, suzani, and stuff from Mexico and Morocco who work as designers and/or stylists and who say things like:

"We think of ourselves as freespirited life hackers, crystal peacemakers, mindful disco lovers, with future rainbow prism hearts," and

"Our home is a mishmash, a palimpsest of our lives.
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Does Bohemianism really need to be further stereotyped as the realm of privileged hippies who like to pretend that they invented incense Some diversity would've really kept this book from falling, at times, into eyeroll territory.
Where are the boho teachers, immigration lawyers, baristas, journalists in this book Surely there are homes that have quirky, beautiful style in the Midwest, MidAtlantic, South, Rockies or New England somewhere other than Portland, LA, and New York Maybe a farmhouse or a cooperative housing situation How about more people who actually incorporate artifacts and textiles from their own ethnicities/countries into their living spaces

Overall, nice to read through once, probably won't keep coming back to it as a resource.
Gorgeous photographed book on the Boho decorating style, The included craft projects really boost the The New Bohemians's value, I'm a hippie at heart, I love the inspiring ideas of the collected and vintage home, The bohemian lifestyle is one that embraces what you have, makes what you don't have and has an overall gypsy spirit.
This book encourages us all even those who don't consider themselves "Hippies" to see that it's not about VW vans and tiedye, but a way of traveling the globe and taking back home with us a little bit of the world and incorporating it into our homes.
Color, spirit and love. That's all a home needs, Five for sheer beauty and colorsaturated photographs, Personally, I think my style is evolving into something more minimal, with bold color and pattern carefully placed, rather than maximally layered as often shown here.
But you can't beat these examples for sheer eye candy with a very "real" nonprofessionallydesigned feel, I need more plants and textiles! Apparently bohemian means having a bunch of stuff from Morocco and/or a lot of dreamcatchers.


I like the author's house the most, Special snowflake alert. Precious people Emily is a macramé specialist while Adam is a metaphysical real estate dabbler try to convince themselves that they haul stuff into their homes better than everyone else.


Did you know that you can buy things when you leave your home and then decorate with them Game changer.
I loved this book so, so much!

Full of gorgeous ideas, beautiful photos and so much inspiration that anyone can put into action in their own home anyone can afford plants and we all have access to our imaginations.


Cannot recommend enough! I read it cover to cover in two days and am now taking notes for inspo in specific rooms ltThis book is a big bowl of eye candy for me.
I've checked it out from the library multiple times and would probably buy it if it weren't so big and expensive.
Maybe one day I'll see it on the sale shelves at BampN, very, very cool. I loved all the colors and dodahs that graced every page, it really inspired me I could almost smell the patchouli! Let's start with the good, Lovely homes. I didn't really think the division of homes by bohemian terminology was always accurate to the looks but nonetheless, I found something to enjoy about every home.
I also thought the crafts and plant guide gave the book a little extra special something something, But holy cultural appropriation Batman, I think it's possible to be a Bohemian without treating other people's cultures like trinkets in your home but unfortunately there was a lot of that in this book.
I also thought the book was very trustafarian, It talks a good game of how bohemians can have no money or lots of money and still be bohemians, but let me be frank, no one featured in this book is lacking in funds by any stretch the imagination regardless of how bohemian you may feel.
If you can over look the little annoying things here and there, it's a cool decorating book, Wow, what a gorgeous book, The description says author Blakeney features her favorite homes from "across the country", . . but really most of the homes are in California and New York, with a small handful from Oregon, Texas, and New Mexico.
No matter, though, because all of the homes here are phenomenal,

The book is divided into six parts, each part covering a different bohemian style: modern, earthy, folksy, nomadic, romantic, and maximal.
But all the homes have a lot in common, They are playful, colorful, whimsical, and chock full of personality, Some lean toward minimalism and others are stuffed to the gills, but I loved each and every one.
It helps, too, that the book quality and photo spreads are stunningreally vibrant and inspirational, After reading this book, I've decided our house needs about twice the number of plants it currently has.
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But I especially love how this book made me feel affirmed in our decision to decorate, furnish, and design our new home slowly.
It takes time to build layers that are meaningful and reflect who we are, Sometimes I feel pressure to rush that process, since, hello, after a year in this house, we still don't have a coffee table in our living room.
. . But now I'm feeling a little bit more calm and confident, I'm glad we are taking our time to find pieces that we love,

At any rate, I loved this book, It is beautiful to look at and helpful to read, I know I'll be returning to it again and again, I love the ideas in this book, So many awesome decorating ideas!! Boho the way to go! Nice book on bohemian decorating style, with many photos.
Turns out I am not a bohemian, Now we know. Beautiful, earthy, and sensuous! After some super long days at work, it felt so nice to come home to this book and immerse myself in the warm and wonderful home environments Ms.
Blakeney has curated. If ever I needed to feel affirmed in my personal tastes, this book does the trick I don't think I'd realized there were so many others with similar kantha kilim fetishes, cravings for All The Textiles, plants a plenty, incenseburning, and incessant desire for more more more color.
This book felt like coming home, and I loved it, Love, love, love. If you identify with this style you will want to read, look at, and have this book, It's a decoration to a coffee table all on its own, I'm totally inspired and feel validated by my taste in decor, although some will find it just too much.
I found my tribe! Read, . . flipped through the pictures same thing, right I've been wanting to redecorate my bedroom in this style so I was mostly just looking for ideas.
This was nice because it showed a few different styles of bohemian, and even pulled out some of the small details in each room as things you could make yourself.
Because I am a nosy person, I LOVE seeing photos of other people's STUFF, That's the real reason I buy these decorator books and magazines: I want to see your collections, guys.
I also want validation that I'm not the only kook in the world whose home looks like a flea market, but that's a topic for my analyst.


This book has been on my wishlist for a long time, but,is a hefty price for this working girl, I waited, and waited for a more affordable used copy, and, finally, . . I was rewarded disappointed, Sometimes the anticipation is WAY better than the real thing,

When I think of the Bohemian look, I envision COLOR, and lots of it, pattern on pattern, walls cluttered with art, and STuFF everywhere.
BUT so much of this book is, GASP! minimalist: WHITE WALLS, glasstopped tables, one piece of tasteful art hanging above a sofa.



Seriously Put a bible and some Maalox on that nightstand, and this could be my granny's bedroom!

Only about the lastpages of the book are what I really had in mind when I ordered a copy.
Turns out, I was looking for Maximal Bohemian style:

, . . maximal bohemians surround themselves with eye candy, Every surface of the home is abundant with art the walls are canvases to be patterned, painted, and planted floors and furniture are buried in pillows and textiles and shelves are filled with

books and beloved objects.



Yeah, baby! THIS is more like it! Punchyouintheeye color, and just LOOK at all that STUFF!


So,pages out ofof what I consider to be good stuff kept this one from being a total wash.
And, I did get some ideas from within these pages like how this guy turned his crappy sofa into an awesome crazyquilt patchwork by sewing scraps of fabric right to the old upholstery.




Will I try this I'm tempted, . . until I think about spending two years of my life sitting on the floor, stitching pieces of wornout jeans to my couch.


Yeah.

Even I'm not that crazy, .