founder + studio
Bada Haus is a Las Vegas interior design studio built around a simple belief: designing a home starts with understanding the life that will be lived there.
Bada (바다), pronounced BAH-dah, means sea in Korean. I was born and raised in Hawaii, surrounded by the Pacific, and the sea has always felt like home to me. Bada connects that sense of home with my Korean heritage.
Haus is a nod to Bauhaus and the idea that art, craftsmanship, materials, and everyday life should work together. It also reflects how I think about a home. A room is defined by six planes, but a home is so much more. It holds who we are, what we remember, and what comes next.
Together, Bada Haus is my House of the Sea.
Belonging has always meant a lot to me. Growing up Korean American in Hawaii shaped my sense of identity and where I fit. Being a gay man added another layer, especially in figuring out where I could fully be myself. Those experiences taught me how much belonging matters, and why I care about creating spaces where people can simply be themselves.
Long before I learned the principles of design, I understood how a space could make you feel. Formal training gave me the foundation, and more than a decade of experience taught me how to turn instinct and ideas into spaces that actually work.
I think about how you live, what you love, what you’ve collected, where you’ve been, and who you’re becoming. What haven’t you imagined yet?
My job isn’t simply to give you what you already know you want. It’s to listen, observe, understand what the space wants to be, and translate all of that into a vision that can actually be built.
When it’s finished, I want the feeling to be simple:
It should feel like you.
