Red Bamboo

Cute store with island style home furnishings and gifts
Red Bamboo is a cute islandy, gifty store in Kailua. It’s chock-​full of gifts and home furnishings that make you feel like you’re right at the beach. It’s perfect for people who live nearby, or visitors who want to take a little aloha home with them. I walked around the store several times, and every time I did, I saw something cute and fun. They have pillows, jewelry, candles, signs, and all kinds of neat, beachy things, including little signs that say «beach.» I was there in November for their Christmas party/​sale, and there was plenty of friendly staff to help and celebrate the season.
I will definitely go back to Red Bamboo when I am in Kailua again and I can really recommend it as a fun place to shop to bring a little bit of a tropical feel to your home.

Super cute store in Kailua where you can find a nice housewarming gift or buy pretty linens and pillows to decorate your home. I bought mini buoy string lights and acrylic glasses with a beach/​sea theme for a friend’s housewarming lanai. The store owner is very friendly and helpful.

Hawaii and Windward themed gift shop but with quality items above the ubiquitous kukui-​nut lei trinkets. Well presented with attentive service. See also Island Treasures.

This place is GREAT! Quijana actually recommended me here, but I thought she meant the one in the mall, which is small and not as awesome. I was on the hunt for a few little extra things to put into my best friends birthday box of awesome gifts and I figured Red Bamboo might have those things, I was right.
When I entered I saw a lot of really cool wooden signs and burlap bunting that had Beatles quotes, and L O V E spelled out on them. I thought that was unique, but not exactly what I had in mind.
There were tons of nautical theme glassware, bedding, entertaining sets, and décor, which is totally rad. I wish my dining room was set up to look like a magical mermaid dinner party.
There was a tiki bar area that had plenty of supplies to set your outdoor bar up, I saw a set of glasses that were PERFECT. They can be wine glasses or cocktail glasses.
In the corner was a HUGE red Buddah statue that I had visions of being in my garden, but I didn’t want to drop $ 1200 on it.
I also saw gorgeous shell chandeliers and THEN I spy the wind chimes. I did NEED a new wind chime for my porch and so I picked one out that spoke to me, and took it home too.
This place is great, you WILL find something for yourself or someone else if you’re in need of a gift. You will need to take your time to look, as the place is pretty big and has a lot in there.
Also, if you’re a resident of Kailua you get 10% off your purchase. Heck yeah!

Very interesting lovely things. I would love to buy everything there.

I love this store. I have such a hard time going there because I love so much of the merchandise and can never decide on what to get or come out with things for me!!! So many great things to choose from. I’ve never been to Bali but just love all the furniture, clothes etc from there. Your jewellery is really lovely! Great for gifts: between the gorgeous dishes, platters, tablecloths, napkins, ocean themed things… I could just go on and on!!! Love the new bigger store, more room to move around! Went to a xmas party thing there last year ~ loved that ~ you should do that more often!!! :) The girls in the store were very welcoming and friendly and helped me alot with my decisions! I recommend Red Bamboo to all my friends and relatives and it’s nice that you are in Kailua and don’t have to drive to town.

Red Bamboo is an outstanding Island Lifestyle shop with a ridiculously awesome
amount of inventory. Great gifts and home décor. The buyer obviously has a keen eye. I recommend this store for beach lovers and tropical dream seekers…

I’m consistently disappointed by this store.
It seems wonderful, enticing displays and all.
The customer service is severely lacking. I get the distinct impression that they are looking down their noses at me. Friends I’ve brought in concur.
The return policy is not spelled out as clearly as they seem to think it is — A tiny sign at the cash register. Ladies, you need to verbally spell it out clearly if you’re going to have this policy BEFORE you swipe the card. If you were charged the wrong price and you pay… you will NOT get a refund… just a store credit. BEWARE. CHECK CHECK CHECK before you hand over your card.
Follow-​up for requested items or updates doesn’t exist.
Look carefully at some of the signs for sale… spelling mistakes.
Prices are high, items break.
If you’re a tourist and want to spend a lot of money for higher end junk, by all means come plunk your money here. You’ll probably fly away and get home before you realize that you paid twice as much for crap you could have bought at home and just TOLD people you got in Kailua. You’re thousands of miles away so no hope of a return… oh yeah… they don’t offer refunds so you’re screwed either way.

Red Bamboo is a perfect store for tourists who want to avoid buying cheesy gifts for their friends and family or themselves, for that matter. There’s a wide range of beautiful items and you don’t have to spent a lot of money. I walked out with five items that will actually be of use and spent less than $ 40.
The young woman working was very friendly and gave me some site-​seeing tips.

Cute store — if I still lived in Hawaii, I’d definitely be buying some things from here to play up the beach vibe in my house. The downside is their customer service is not so great… as in, I didn’t really experience any. I was in the store, made my all the way around from front to back and front again, and walked out without so much as a peep from the two gossiping shop girls.

Red Bamboo has some pretty cool island-​style home décor. I loved almost everything in this place. What do they carry? kitchenware, dishware, Body products (lotions, soaps, parfums, lip balms), bedding, decorative pillows, wall art, paintings, lamps, jewelry, shells, wind chimes, picnic/​backyard party supplies, and a whole lot more related to that!
I love love love a dishware set that they carry here called Mud-​Pie. It has a great classic beachy theme to its dishes and such. (Although, this brand is carried in many other similar stores on Oahu) All of the stuff here is one of a kind. The prices are a little above average, so if you don’t mind spending a third or double more on something in here, or if money isn’t an issue for you, then go for it… your house will look beautiful. I think the high prices have to do with the fact that its in a boutique store and that its in kailua, perhaps?
I over heard the owner of the store say that she goes to Bali frequently to bring items back to the store. So that lamp you might buy might be hand-​made in another country! :) Everytime I go into the store, I am sometimes greeted, but the employees need to work on more of a «welcoming» hello. They really don’t assist you unless you ask them about it. Thats good for some people like me who don’t like to be bothered when they shop, but not so good for those who need some interior decorating assistance with the products in store.
Its located on Kailua in the same store strip as Island Treasures.

After looking at the Tokyo Milk website for their products, Red Bamboo was listed as a store that carried their items.
I found all of two Tokyo Milk products, on a table towards the back of the store: perfume in a spray bottle and lip balm, and not in the scents that I tried out at Macy’s Ala Moana.
They did have a hardcover book entitled Party Hawaii: A Guide to Entertaining in the Islands, bu author Kaui Philpotts, which I may have to get later.