Actually, there is no rigid rule of how bohemian furniture style should be. Bohemian style always allows any uniqueness and creativity of the decorator. As an Apartment Therapy says that a bohemian room should look it’s been furnished over decades. The concept of colouring is rather out of the mainstream, Bohemian style allows mismatching. It means, you can make your own rule for your design project. Yet, there is general guideline to produce a pleasing furniture style.
The first rule you must obey is about paint selection. Paint each piece of furniture including the chairs to enhance its line. It is not necessary to coordinate each piece of furniture colour to other. For instance, if you want a room full of vibrant colour, and then you have to paint each piece in different hue. To keep the tone rich and comfortable combine the painting with permanent fixtures such as flooring. You can skip the primer paint if you prefer accelerated wear as the bohemian charms. If you want the paint stick together with the wall and long lasting, you have to apply paint primer before you paint the wall.
You must be careful when painting small detail of the furniture, such as when you are painting the exposed wood upholstered pieces, use some painter’s tape and drop cloth to keep flecks and smear off the fabrics. Apply a perfect coat of paint to chair, table but paint each of drawer with different colour, the colour is your favourite colour. Then try to wipe fresh paint in contrasting colour with the original paint you have applied before. Let the excess of the paint remain there such as smears and carvings rather than neatening it with paintbrush. After painting the pieces with your favourite colour, wipe on a coat of tinted glaze to create a deep shade.
As what the Apartment Therapy said that bohemian style furniture should look, it has been worn and furnished for decades. This demand a trick of painting to have such look. You must scrape off bits of paint that has already dried before with chisel randomly. Another technique is by sanding off spots to expose some wood or metal construction on chairs. The curved, top edge of wood-trimmed, camel spots sofa is the one needs sand off spots.
The final touch you can do in furnishing the bohemian style furniture is adding metallic paint to highlight any point to be noticeable. The basic principle of colour mixing in bohemian style is not monochromatic. It is bursting colours, textures and patterns, but not overwhelming. Combine pattern of colours that have at least one colour in common, and hold an earth tone colour like bold purple, blues and green. If you can apply the basic rules well, you can create your own mixture.