Goblin core isn’t just a trend. It’s a lifestyle a muddy-boot-wearing, moss-hunting, frog-loving kinda lifestyle. Think fairy tales, but the kind where you eat soup out of a chipped bowl in a mossy cabin while rain taps the windows. Yeah, that vibe.
2025 is all about feeling connected to your weird little self again. Let’s make your bedroom feel like a nest tucked deep in the woods, where mushrooms talk and everything smells like damp leaves. Here’s how.
1. Mossy Textures Everywhere
Start with layers. Think soft, fuzzy, plushy layers that mimic moss and undergrowth. Blankets that look like they were knitted by a woodland witch. Pillows in greens, rusts, and muddy browns.
Your curtains? Make ‘em thick and heavy, like crushed velvet or chunky knits. Maybe even dye them yourself with tea or avocado pits. Add a few frayed edges. Imperfect is good. Perfect is cursed.
And if you find an old scarf that looks like forest floor? That’s a table runner now.
2. Decor That Looks Like You Foraged It
You don’t have to dig up your backyard (though hey, no judgement). But your room should feel like it was decorated by a hoarder of shiny rocks and crow feathers.
Little glass jars filled with weird things: moss, bones (fake or real, you do you), acorns, rusty keys. Hang a bundle of dried herbs with twine. Let it crumble a bit. It adds charm. And dust? Kinda fits the aesthetic.
Wall art can be an old book page or a pressed leaf. Or both.
3. Moody, Muted Lighting, No Overhead Light Allowed
Overhead lights are aggressive. Goblins don’t like that. Go for twinkle lights, candles (battery or otherwise), and thrifted lamps with amber shades.
Bonus points for mismatched lamps. One that looks like a toadstool. Another that buzzes when you turn it on.
Warm light. Always. If it doesn’t feel like golden hour in a swamp, try again.
4. Layered Bedding That Feels Like a Nest
Your bed should look like it belongs to someone who takes naps at 2PM on rainy days. Layer quilts, ragged throws, hand-me-down blankets. Don’t match them. Don’t even try.
One could have ducks. Another plaid. Another vaguely floral. The secret? Make it feel like a story.
Crumple your sheets a little. Sleep in your socks. Perfection is suspicious.
5. Nature on the Walls (Not in a Minimalist Way)
Forget gallery walls and clean lines. You want chaos. Controlled chaos.
Pin dried leaves and seed pods to the wall with rusty thumbtacks. Add a weird drawing you found in a zine. Frame a photo of a slug.
You know those stick-and-string dreamcatchers people make? Make one but messier. Add feathers, buttons, maybe even a bead from 2004.
Clutter? Yes. But make it magical clutter.
6. A Little Bit of Rot (Not Literally… Maybe)
Not everything should look new. In fact, avoid anything that looks like it came out of a factory box yesterday.
Go for secondhand furniture with scuffs and scratches. A dresser with one squeaky drawer. A mirror with clouded edges.
Have something that’s clearly too old to still work? Keep it anyway. That cracked teacup? It holds your hair clips now. The old candlestick you found in your grandma’s basement? A portal.
Let your room look like it remembers things.
7. Forest Floor Rugs (But Indoors, Obviously)
Your rug should be soft, worn, and maybe a bit weird. Think deep browns, forest greens, mushroom reds. Bonus points if it looks a little dirty even when it’s clean.
Faux fur works too. Or those shaggy rugs that feel like stepping on a beast.
Place them haphazardly. One under the bed, half-folded. Another tiny one in front of a chair. Like you just dragged them in from some enchanted cave.
8. Trinkets and Treasures That Tell a Weird Story
Every object should look like it has a backstory. Even if you make it up.
A spoon from a cursed picnic. A rock that whispers in dreams. A wooden box that holds your secrets (and batteries).
Scatter things like a crow collecting shinies. Tiny sculptures, miniature books, old candles that burned weird. Mismatched mugs with chips in them. One spoon that isn’t like the others.
The more your room feels like it’s hiding something, the better.
9. Mushrooms. Everywhere. No Exceptions.
You want mushrooms on the walls, on your bedsheets, on your socks. Clay mushrooms on your desk. Painted ones on rocks. Maybe even a DIY mushroom lamp (Pinterest will show you how).
There’s something oddly soothing about a toadstool in your periphery at all times.
Mushrooms are the unofficial mascot of goblin core. Embrace it. Go full shroom.
10. A Reading Nook That Looks Like a Spell Was Cast on It
Pick a corner. Throw some old blankets down. Add pillows that look like they’re from your grandma’s attic. Then stack books like you’re planning to live inside them.
Candles nearby. A chipped teacup. Maybe a tiny gnome figurine keeping watch.
Read old fairy tales or plant guides. Write weird poetry in a leather journal. Stare at the ceiling and imagine what the spiders think of you.
If it doesn’t feel like time slows down there, it’s not ready yet.
11. Goblin Pantry Corner (Yes, Even in the Bedroom)
Why should the kitchen have all the fun? Set up a low wooden shelf or crate in your room. Stack it with little jars of dried fruit, herbal teas, hard candies wrapped in crinkly paper, maybe even some stale crackers (aesthetically stale, not gross stale).
Add a tiny spoon and one of those fake apples. Label things with handwritten tags. “Pixie Dried Plums” sounds better than “prunes” anyway.
Don’t forget a crumpled linen napkin. Nothing too clean. Goblins aren’t pristine creatures.
12. Odd-Looking Furniture with Personality
Instead of clean IKEA lines, go for lopsided. Or better: handmade. Or even better: that weird stool your uncle made in the 90s.
You want things that look like they’ve lived a life. A desk with paint splatters. A chair missing a rung. A nightstand that’s actually just stacked suitcases. Or three milk crates and a piece of driftwood. DIY vibes meet cursed cottage charm.
Bonus if your furniture creaks or groans when you sit on it. Haunted energy? Ideal.
13. Hidden Spaces and Secret Compartments
Every good goblin lair has secrets. Hide things in hollow books. Tuck notes under rugs. Create a false bottom in your drawer (even if it hides nothing but lint and a paperclip).
You could even hang a curtain in a corner and pretend it’s hiding a portal. Who’s gonna check? Exactly.
The mystery is the magic. You’re not just decorating. You’re enchanting.
14. Pet Corner for Imaginary Beasts
Even if you don’t have pets, make space for the idea of one. Set up a small cushion near your bed for your “puddle fox” or “marsh dragon.” Place a tiny bowl of water (with a pebble in it) for hydration.
Make a sign: “Do Not Disturb, Tiny Troll Sleeping.”
If you do have a pet? Make them a mossy throne. Drape a blanket. Add a plush mushroom. Take photos. Tell them they’re royalty. They already know.
15. Crusty Old Maps and Weathered Charts
Pin up maps that look like they’ve seen things. Coffee-stain them yourself if needed. Maybe a forest map, or a “Moss Migration Chart.” It doesn’t need to make sense.
Write cryptic notes on them in fountain pen. Circle something random. Pretend it’s the lost acorn cave. Hang it slightly crooked. Tape curling at the corners.
Your room should whisper, “There’s a journey waiting. Maybe after a nap.”
16. A Mirror That Doesn’t Behave Like a Mirror
Hang a mirror that’s too small, or slightly warped. Maybe it’s in a gilded frame that’s chipped. Maybe it fogs up when the moon’s out.
Decorate it with dried flowers, tiny bones, or a scrap of lace. Drape something over one corner like it’s shy. Let it reflect something weird—like your mushroom lamp or your pet goblin’s pillow.
Make it less about checking your eyeliner and more about glimpsing another realm.
17. Goblin Laundry Aesthetic (Stay With Me Here)
Don’t put away all your clothes. Instead, hang a few charmingly tattered pieces from a ladder, a branch, or a wire across the room. Like you’re drying your forest cloak after a rainy trek.
Drape a sock over your lamp. Toss a flannel shirt on the bed like a goblin just molted. Embrace the low-level chaos. But make it cute.
Fashion becomes decor. Laundry becomes legend.
18. Cracked Ceramics and Gloopy Pottery
Get thee to a thrift store and seek out bowls that look like they’ve survived a landslide. Cups with uneven rims. Clay pieces with fingerprints baked in.
Use them to hold jewelry, keys, candy, secrets. Or just stack them like a goblin altar.
If something breaks? Glue it back together with gold (kintsugi style) or don’t. The cracks are part of the spell.
19. A Corner of the Room That’s Just Mushrooms and Bugs
Not real bugs—unless you’re brave. But a dedicated nook for mushroom prints, beetle illustrations, little sculptures, even those resin paperweights with fake insects inside.
Line them up on a shelf like you’re curating the Goblin Museum of Natural Oddities. Add labels: “Unknown Fungus,” “Moth of Forgetting,” “Beetle of Misfortune.”
Science class meets fairy tale. Perfect combo.
20. Sounds of the Forest (or the Dungeon)
Don’t forget your ears. Get a small speaker or an old radio and play ambient sounds. Crackling fire, dripping caves, forest birds, distant thunder.
Sometimes, just some eerie wind chimes or soft flutes. Goblin music is never loud it murmurs, it rustles, it glows.
You could even record your own goblin bedtime story. Then play it while falling asleep under five blankets and a suspicious hat.
Final Words
By now, your room should feel like a secret forest den tucked inside your house. Somewhere you can drink warm tea and talk to your plants and wear six layers of clothing for no reason. That’s goblin core in 2025. Cozy, strange, and just a little bit wild.
Make your room a place where mushrooms would want to grow. Where moss could sleep peacefully on your windowsill. Where you, the lovely goblin that you are, can exist just as you are messy, magical, and totally at home. Now go find a rock and give it a name.
