Boho Sunroom Decorating Ideas: 15 Bright, Relaxing Retreats

Put the reading chair in the sunniest corner and angle it toward the view, with a side table and a lamp close enough to reach. Here a leather butterfly chair sits under the log beams, two wool floor cushions wait on the rug for company, and a stack of saddle blankets on a low bench keeps a throw within reach.

The colors come from the desert outside: terracotta pots, sand-colored walls and the green of the cacti on the window ledge. Saltillo tile takes the sun without complaint. The wool rugs sit right in the patches of light, so turn them now and then to keep them fading evenly.

Set the daybed along a long side wall, under the windows. You lie with the view beside you instead of the bright glass end in your eyes, and the afternoon sun falls across the cushions. A small side table stands at its foot; a seagrass pouf and two floor cushions give a second person a seat.

With only white, sky blue and bleached wood to work with, the layers carry the room: a small blue kilim over a big jute rug, cushions in mixed stripes and ikat, a chunky knit throw, and baskets, a macrame hanging and a driftwood ladder on the shingled house wall.

Two pieces make a tea corner: one deep chair and a small table at the right height for a cup. A dusty-rose velvet armchair and a marble bistro table fill the bay of this Victorian conservatory, with a footstool for your feet and a porcelain teapot on the table.

Vintage boho looks collected over years. A faded Persian rug lies on checkerboard marble, a Boston fern rises on a brass stand, and orchids sit in brass pots. Under a glass roof the sun reaches the chair from above for much of the day, so a lace throw over the velvet is worth keeping there.

A low floor sofa keeps the windows open above it, so the whole wall stays glass from the cushions up. Here a mustard corduroy sofa runs the length of a closed-in back porch, with a papasan chair at the far end and a turntable on a low cabinet across the rug.

The 70s palette is orange, mustard and brown, and a shag rug, a crochet granny-square blanket and patchwork pillows carry it. Keep the records in the closed cabinet, out of the patches of sun that cross the floor every afternoon.

Turn the desk sideways to the glass. You get the trees at the edge of your eye and no glare head-on. This white oak desk stands at a right angle to the side wall of a black steel glass box, with a cane-back chair and a sheepskin over its back.

Modern boho keeps the palette to cream, black and light oak, so the interest comes from texture. Two rugs overlap on the polished concrete, a boucle pouf and a leather pouf sit nearby, and the dark house wall holds a macrame hanging, woven baskets and an abstract canvas. A group of tall plants fills the corner where two glass walls meet.

A coffee spot needs a seat in the morning sun and a table big enough for a French press and two cups. White rattan and a round gold coffee table with a glass top keep this one light, so the cushions, the throws and the flowers bring the color.

Boho chic is the softer, prettier side of boho: blush pink, white and gold, fringe and tassels, pink peonies. A round gold mirror on the brick house wall reflects the garden back into the room. A pastel kilim lies over a big jute rug, with a pink sheepskin by the armchair.

A long farm table belongs down the middle of a long room, with chairs on both sides and a pendant centered over it. Here the pendant hangs from the ridge of a gabled sunroom, and two skylights on each slope put sun on the table around midday.

A rust block-print tablecloth takes the sun so the tabletop doesn’t. The farmhouse half of the room is white board walls, a painted hutch of white ironstone and a jute runner; the boho half is the kilim at the door, the macrame and baskets on the house wall, and herbs in clay pots on the sills.

A banquette that wraps a corner seats a crowd along two walls, and everyone faces the middle. Here it runs under two walls of arched windows, around a low carved tray table set for tea, with two leather poufs to pull up on the open side.

Moroccan boho runs on jewel tones: emerald, saffron and ruby cushions, a red kilim over jute, a green zellige floor. Three colored-glass lanterns hang from the beams; in daylight the sun lights up their colored glass.

Hang the egg chair from a solid beam that runs from the house wall to the outer wall, never from the bars of a glass roof. Here one timber beam crosses the room, and the chair and two hanging plants all hang from it. Ask whoever builds the room whether the beam can carry a chair and a person.

A plant room needs a place to work, and a potting bench against the house wall holds terracotta pots, with a staghorn fern mounted on a board above it. Brick laid in herringbone shrugs off spilled soil and water, and the black-and-cream mud cloth cushions stand out against all that green.

Leave the middle of the floor open. A yoga room needs a mat’s length of clear space, so the furniture stays low and against the walls: a tatami platform under the windows, a shelf along the house wall, a small tray table at one side.

Japandi boho is the quiet end of boho: linen, light ash and charcoal ceramics, with a bonsai and dried pampas grass on the shelf and a macrame and a woven plate on the brick wall. In winter the sun sits low and reaches far across the floor; the bamboo blinds come halfway down to cut the glare off the snow.

A sunroom doesn’t have to be white. Paint the window frames green-black and the solid walls forest green, and the room feels enclosed even with glass on three sides. A green velvet sofa sits along the windows, with a brass floor lamp behind its arm for when the light goes.

Moody boho layers dark, rich colors: oxblood and ochre velvet, a burgundy Persian rug over another one, brass. Velvet by the windows takes the afternoon sun straight on, so a sheepskin and a fringed throw over the arm cover the part that gets the most.

A play tent gives a child a room inside the room, and in a sunroom it’s also the shady spot. Set it against the glass, lay a soft round rug in front, and keep low open shelves along the wall so toys go back in baskets at child height.

Scandinavian boho keeps to white, light birch and pastels. The toys are plain wood, the rugs are cotton and the floor is cork, which is soft and warm underfoot. A rainbow macrame and a row of small baskets on the wall add color above the toys.

A breakfast nook needs only a small table, two chairs and a bench against the wall for anyone extra. This one sits just inside open sliding doors, so breakfast is half indoors and half on the terrace, and cast iron is happy either side of the door.

The colors are terracotta, cobalt and white: blue-and-white plates on the wall, striped cushions stacked on the bench, a red kilim beside a striped rug, a basket of lemons. An olive tree and a bird of paradise stand inside, and the terrace beyond is planted in red hibiscus.

Set the easel near the windows and the chair where you can step back and look. This closed-in porch does both: the easel stands in the light, the peacock chair waits in the corner, and a painted chest against the house wall keeps brushes in jars on top.

Eclectic boho mixes on purpose: a suzani cushion, a patchwork quilt, cobalt, coral and yellow all at once. The gallery wall hangs on the solid house wall, out of the direct sun that crosses the floor. A paint-splattered floor is part of the look and saves you a drop cloth.

Give guests a sofa that faces the view and a chair angled toward it, so they can talk and look out at once. Here a teak sofa and a cane lounge chair share a low teak coffee table, and a teak credenza along the house wall holds ceramics and a lamp.

Mid-century boho is teak plus color: mustard cushions, a geometric rug in teal, mustard and cream over jute, a rust throw. At midday the sun lays sharp patches across the terrazzo, and terrazzo doesn’t mind it.