Inspirations

Steal This Look: An Unexpected Bamboo Kitchen in Oslo, Norway

Bamboo that doesn’t look like bamboo: That’s what you’ll find from Ask og Eng, the Olso, Norway-based kitchen company that first started making fronts for Ikea cabinets and have since expanded to fully custom kitchens.

A few years back we featured the kitchen of Ask og Eng’s founders, couple Kine Ask Stenersen and Kristoffer Eng, who renovated their 1930s wooden house in Drammen, Norway, by removing walls, upgrading windows and doors, and exposing an original pine floor. With their bamboo kitchens, Stenersen and Eng source raw material from certified farms where bamboo, a fast-growing grass, is produced sustainably and responsibly. Here’s a look at the details of their kitchen, beyond just the cabinets, that make it such a covetous look.

the pine floors, which the couple had sawn, sanded, and oiled, give way to the  9
Above: The pine floors, which the couple had sawn, sanded, and oiled, give way to the bamboo kitchen in a Rye finish. Photograph by Kine Ask Stenersen, courtesy of Ask og Eng, from Kitchen of the Week: At Home with a Couple Who Design Kitchens of Sustainable Bamboo.

the drawers and cabinets are made of bamboo that has been sanded, treated with  10
Above: The drawers and cabinets are made of bamboo that has been sanded, treated with pigmented oil, and sealed with an Osmo hard wax oil. Photograph by Kine Ask Stenersen, courtesy of Ask og Eng, from Kitchen of the Week: At Home with a Couple Who Design Kitchens of Sustainable Bamboo.

two additional ask og eng designs are the large vertical wall shelf and dining  11
Above: Two additional Ask og Eng designs are the large vertical wall shelf and dining table, both in bamboo. Photograph by Kine Ask Stenersen, courtesy of Ask og Eng, from Kitchen of the Week: At Home with a Couple Who Design Kitchens of Sustainable Bamboo.

Materials

a similar paint color to the warm white seen on the walls is benjamin moore& 12
Above: A similar paint color to the warm white seen on the walls is Benjamin Moore’s Simply White OC-117.
the kitchen cabinets are done in ask og eng’s vertical grained e co 13
Above: The kitchen cabinets are done in Ask og Eng’s vertical-grained E Collection, made entirely of bamboo inside and out and done in their dark Rye finish.

the countertops are jura gray, a durable limestone patterened with fossils and  14
Above: The countertops are Jura Gray, a durable limestone patterened with fossils and shells.