6 Meditation Room Design Ideas

Whether you’re just learning how to meditate or not, creating a meditation room for yourself is a great idea.

Having a permanent or “popup” space dedicated to your meditation practice will help you to be more consistent, while helping you get into a meditative state faster by creating a ritual around your practice.

In this article, we’ll discuss some meditation room ideas, design aesthetics, and decorating ideas, as well as meditation room furniture and accessories that you may want to consider to create the perfect at home space to go within, even if you’re on a budget.

So, let’s dive in… Here’s what we’ll be covering:

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6 Ideas for Meditation Room Design

Let’s dive into several meditation room ideas to inspire your own creativity. We’ll go through each of these meditation room designs and the various elements that make them up, from overall decor to wall colors to furniture to accessories.

Hopefully, these decorating ideas spark something in you that can assist in building your own at home meditation space that’s perfect for you.

#1 Bohemian Meditation Room (Boho)

A Bohemian (or Boho) meditation room decor can bring together an eclectic mix of textures, colors, and cultures to create a creative and cozy atmosphere. The essence of the Boho style is freedom from traditional rules — embracing a carefree, artistic atmosphere — making this type of meditation room design perfect for individuals who value self-expression and individuality.

Here are the stylistic elements of a boho meditation room:

• Theme: Eclectic and artistic, featuring global influences like Moroccan or Indian decor, mixed with handcrafted or vintage items, for a “collected” rather than “curated” look and feel.
• Furniture: Use floor cushions with intricate patterns, large poufs, or rattan chairs. Add vintage or hand-carved wooden low tables for decor or incense holders.
• Colors: Opt for earthy tones like rust, olive, and mustard. Accent with vibrant colors like deep blues, magenta, or jewel tones through textiles and art.
• Accessories: Incorporate layered kilim or Moroccan rugs, macramé wall hangings, beaded curtains, and colorful throw pillows. Add house plants like ferns or snake plants for a lush feel.
• Lighting: Hang woven pendant lights or drape string lights around the room. Include candles or lanterns for soft, warm light.

#2 Zen Meditation Room

A Zen meditation room design, drawing on Japanese architecture and interior design, is a great style for those who desire a minimalist style that balances the use of natural elements and modern aesthetics.

Here are some tips for creating a Zen meditation space:

• Theme: Minimalistic and nature-inspired, with a focus on balance and harmony. Every item in the space should serve a purpose, contributing to the peaceful atmosphere without overwhelming the senses.
• Furniture: Opt for simple, low seating such as a tatami mat, a zabuton (meditation cushion), or a meditation bench. A small wooden tea table or low shelf can serve as a place for decor or ritual items.
• Colors: Stick to neutral tones like beige, soft gray, black or white. Accentuate with natural wood elements and modest use of plants to introduce greens and other earth tones.
• Accessories: Incorporate natural elements like smooth river stones, bamboo plants, or a small Zen garden. Consider a tabletop water fountain for a soothing water sound that promotes relaxation. Keep decor minimal to maintain a clutter-free environment.
• Lighting: Use soft, diffused lighting through rice paper lanterns, floor lamps with natural fiber shades, or indirect lighting to create a warm, peaceful glow.

This Zen meditation room design fosters an environment of stillness and focus, offering a perfect retreat for anyone looking to create a calm, balanced space for meditation.

#3 Cozy Meditation Room

Designing a cozy meditation room creates an intimate atmosphere that feels like a gentle embrace. This type of meditation room design is perfect for individuals who seek a sense of security and warmth in their practice.

Here are some tips on how to create a cozy meditation room:

• Theme: Soft and plush, featuring an abundance of textures and layers that invite touch and relaxation. The look is carefully curated to evoke a sense of comfort and peace.
• Furniture: Use oversized floor cushions, plush low bean bag chairs, or meditation cushions. Consider including a small wooden side table for holding tea, books, or meditation accessories.
• Colors: Consider using warm, soothing tones like soft browns, muted oranges, and gentle creams. Accent with deeper, richer colors like forest green or burgundy through textiles and small decor items.
• Accessories: Incorporate thick, fluffy area rugs, multiple layers of pillows in various sizes and textures, and chunky knit or faux fur throw blankets. Add soft wall hangings like tapestries or macramé, and include a few meaningful personal items or photos.
• Lighting: Use multiple sources of soft, warm lighting. Hang string lights or fairy lights for a magical ambiance. Include dimmable table lamps and perhaps a Himalayan salt lamp for adjustable, soothing illumination.

Ultimately, the cozy meditation room is all about creating a spot you will want to hang out in regardless of whether you’re meditating or not, because it’s so dang comfy!

#4 Garden Meditation Room

A Garden Meditation Room brings the calming and restorative power of nature into your meditation space. Filling your space with plants is not only soothing but also grounding, and can contribute to an amazing atmosphere for your meditation experiences.

Here are some suggestions for making a garden or green meditation room:

• Theme: The decor should be light, airy, and focused on nature. Think natural textures like wood, stone, and bamboo. The space should feel like an extension of the outdoors, with decor that enhances the connection to nature, such as hanging plants, nature-inspired artwork, or a small indoor garden.
• Furniture: Opt for natural, organic materials like a wooden meditation bench, wicker chairs or other unfinished, handmade furniture.
• Colors: Use a nature-inspired palette with soft greens, browns, and neutral beiges to reflect the natural world while helping to create a peaceful and soothing atmosphere.
• Accessories: Choose plants for your meditation room like ferns, hanging pothos, monsterras, peace lilies, snake plants, chinese evergreens, or bonsai trees. Also, a tabletop or wall-mounted water fountain can introduce the soothing sound of running water, which is extra nice.
• Lighting: Maximize natural light by placing the room near windows, or use eco-friendly, warm-toned LED lights to mimic sunlight. Lanterns or soft floor lamps can create a warm, calming glow during evening meditation.

Whether you go “full garden mode” or not, I recommend incorporating some plants into your meditation space, because there is something magical about being surrounded by living things.

#5 Spiritual Sanctuary

A Spiritual Sanctuary meditation room is all about creating a deeply personal space that reflects your own beliefs. This design is less about achieving a particular look, and instead is focused on creating an environment filled with meaningful objects and symbols that support a spiritual practice, such as meditation, yoga, or prayer.

Here are some elements to consider when building a spiritual sanctuary:

• Theme: The decor should be intentional, with each item serving a spiritual purpose aligned with your own beliefs, rather than trying to achieve a particular look.
• Furniture: Choose simple, low seating such as a meditation bench, yoga bolster, or floor cushions. Optionally, a small altar table can be placed to hold spiritual objects like statues, candles, or sacred texts, creating a focal point for your practice.
• Colors: Consider using rich, warm tones like deep reds, purples, and golds to evoke a sacred and inviting atmosphere. Or, you may opt for a lighter white color scheme with blue or gold accents for a more “heavenly” feel.
• Accessories: Incorporate spiritual items such as crystals, singing bowls, prayer beads, or sacred symbols. Candles, incense holders, and essential oil diffusers can enhance the sensory experience as well.
• Lighting: Soft, low lighting is key to creating a peaceful atmosphere. Use candles, Himalayan salt lamps, or lanterns to provide a gentle, warm glow.

Ultimately, creating a spiritual sanctuary is deeply personal, so incorporate the objects, elements, and colors that best reflect your beliefs and experience of the Divine.

#6 Urban Oasis

Creating an “Urban Oasis” meditation space is less about the particular look or feel, and more about how you create or transform a space into a sanctuary for meditation and self-reflection, amidst the hustle and bustle of life in the city.

Here are some tips for creating an urban oasis meditation room:

• Furniture: Choose a simple or smaller meditation seat or cushion that can be easily stored away, if needing to accommodate a smaller floor plan.
• Accessories: If you’re in a noisy area, you may consider the use of thick curtains or acoustic panels to block out noise. Perhaps, consider getting a speaker to play meditation music, nature sounds, or white noise to create further separation between your meditation room and the noises of the city.
• Lighting: I recommend using modern LED lights (like Philips Hue) to be able to transform your space from regular lighting to mood lighting more suitable for meditation, without having to light candles all around your living room.

Now that we’ve covered some ideas of how to convert an entire room into a meditation space, let’s discuss some ideas for those who don’t have the luxury of dedicating an entire room to their meditation practice.

Meditation Room Ideas on a Budget

Most of us don’t have entire rooms to spare for our meditation practice or the extra cash to redecorate an entire room, so let’s discuss some meditation room ideas for those of us on a budget, either financially or spatially.

Meditation Furniture & Accessories

Luckily, all you need to be able to start your meditation practice is the ability to sit or lie down comfortably, with your spine straight.

So, rather than decorating an entire room, purchasing one or more relatively inexpensive pieces of meditation furniture and/or accessories can give you the ability to create a “popup” meditation space that can exist permanently or temporarily virtually anywhere you desire in your place.

Here are some meditation furniture & accessory options you may want to consider:

1. Meditation Seat, Cushion or Bench: I use this Alexia Meditation Seat, which isn’t cheap, but if it’s the only thing you buy, you’ll be glad you did. Otherwise, you may consider something like the Retrospec Meditation Cushion or the Florensi Meditation Bench for something more simple, compact, and affordable.
2. Yoga Bolster as a Meditation Pillow: Yoga Bolsters aren’t strictly “meditation pillows”, but they work incredibly well to sit on in an upright meditation seat position or for underneath your knees when you are meditating lying down. If you don’t have one, check out something like the Florensi Yoga Bolster Pillow.
3. Aromatic Accessories: Utilizing incense, diffusers, or essential oils for meditation can create a ritual and a mental association that can help you get into that meditative mood. The Shanti Vana incense is the best meditation incense in my experience, and I recommend moss botanicals for any essential oils.
4. Energetic or Spiritual Accessories: Additionally, you may want to purchase or collect some spiritual or energetic artifacts to surround yourself during meditation. These may be religious symbols or texts, sound bowls, or crystals for meditation or soulful vibe creation.

Create Your Meditation Space

Once you have your meditation tool(s), the next step is to simply choose the space you’d like to carve out or set up temporarily whenever you want to meditate.

1. Make a “Popup” Meditation Space: Just purchase a box to house your meditation equipment that can go in a closet or that’s stylish enough to sit out in the open, and you can turn any room into a meditation room while you're meditating and quickly convert it back.
2. Create a Meditation Corner: Optionally, you can convert just a small section of your room to create a meditation corner. Place your meditation chair, maybe a small rug or anything else you desire, and you can have a space to meditate that’s completely out of the way but always ready for you.
3. Utilize Your Bedroom: You can take any of the previous designs as meditation bedroom decorating ideas, and turn your bedroom into a cozy meditation room as well. You can meditate sitting on top of your bed, create a little meditation corner, or convert your entire bedroom into an at home meditation room if you’d like.
4. Make a Meditation Closet: Transforming a closet into a meditation room is extremely underrated, especially if your meditation closet has clothes in it, because of the sound proofing/deadening effects of the clothes. Plus, it’s very private if you live with other people and don’t want to be disturbed.

But what if you want to spend exactly nothing? Well, let me introduce you to my first and favorite meditation room I ever stepped foot in… the beautiful outdoors.

Find or Create an Outdoor Meditation Space

Last, but certainly not least, is the option to find or create an outdoor meditation space.

This is where I first began my adult meditation practice, in the beautiful warmth of the sun, sitting on a bench at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine.

And I have to tell you, meditating outside is incredible. Nature is our home, not a place to visit, and frequently meditating outdoors will quickly ground you back into that truth.

So, you don’t need to know how to create a meditation room at all, really.

If you can find a nice bench in a park, a fallen tree in the forest, a large rock by a creek, the soft sand of a beach, or some grass with a blanket, then you’ve already found the best meditation room there is.