The Buddhist Kitchen

Jules Yap·
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Materials: Akurum/Ramsjo Kitchen

Description: Because of it popularity and affordability IKEA kitchens are everywhere and, frankly, one can recognize it right away. In this kitchen we decided to make it unrecognizable by adding bamboo counters and non-IKEA handles. Then we pained wall into non-traditional “fun” colors and added spots of red everywhere! It is also complemented by “Buddhist” accessories, such as Lucky Crystals and Buddha statues.

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Hope you like this one!

~ KIRA VARVANINA, Canada

Jules Yap
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  1. I think you mean that this is your idea of an Asian-inspired kitchen. The kitchen itself has nothing to do with Buddhism in any way. ‘Lucky Crystals’ are not a part of Buddhism anymore than pictures of babies are part of Christianity. Buddhism is not a decorating style; it’s a religion, and it takes many different forms. Some of those forms can be fairly cluttered and gaudy. While ‘Zen’ is a subset of Buddhist belief, in the West it’s come to be used as a shorthand for simple, peaceful, uncluttered, natural, Japanese-inspired. If you decorated your kitchen with Spanish style crosses and pictures of Spanish churches, I doubt you would call it a Christian kitchen (in fact, a lot of people would get offended if you did). You would probably call it a Spanish-influenced kitchen.

    That said, it’s a nice kitchen. But does it really have anything to do with Buddhism? It doesn’t look like it.

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  4. Hi everyone!
    Thanks for all the positive feedback!
    For the buffet/sideboard, we used 12″ deep wall cabinets from the same Ramsjo cabinet series.
    The bamboo was a 3/4″ laminated sheet with a built up 2″ edge c/w mitered corners.

    Kira

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  5. This site is great. Just what i was looking for.
    who knew. Thanks for a wonderful site. So many
    ideas so little time.
    the mist
    Cassie 2011 august

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  6. wow, looks like you have a spacey room. The kitchen is great, and couldn’t agree more… ikea kitchen are everywhere!

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  8. I agree, how did you wrap the bamboo all the way around the sideboard like that?? i love this though absolutely gorgeous!

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  9. Beautiful and so creative. I love the bamboo wrap around the sideboard. The green color on the wall is fabulous…it would be difficult for me not to paint more walls that color. That would be stunning.

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  11. Beautiful!!
    Could you please explain how did you make the sideboard ? I am looking for one for a long time but ikea has some of the most boring sideboard / buffets available.

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  12. Looks great! Personally, I love Ikea kitchens, but there are some Ikea haters out there. It looks like Ikea lovers will pick up on your Ikea kitchen, and the haters won’t know unless they find an Ikea sticker. Best of both worlds 🙂

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