About our team
Cathie Hong Interiors is a boutique interior design firm based in the South Bay Area. Our intimate team of designers specializes in creating unique and tailored homes in our signature organic modern style, with heavy influences from midcentury modern and Eastern Asian design. Our core values include thoughtful design, clear processes, and empathetic partnership with each of our clients.
Cathie Hong • Principal Designer and Founder
Cathie is a self-taught Korean-American interior designer. She is also a mom of four unique and creative children and often draws from her family experiences when designing spaces. She especially loves designing custom millwork and incorporating Asian-inspired themes into her designs. Her favorite non-design pastimes include jigsaw puzzle marathons and going on evening walks with her husband around their neighborhood in the foothills of Los Gatos.
Chianna Li • Project Coordinator
Chianna is a Bay Area native, who studied Bioengineering in college but after graduation, craved a role that combined creativity with her technical thinking. She loves that her role is able to support CHI on the backend as well as express her creativity in design. At the moment she is loving simple designs with fun patterns and color. On the weekends, you can find her spending time in her garden or starting her next DIY project.
Ellen Lee • Project Designer
Ellen is a project designer at CHI, expertly toggling back and forth between designing homes and drafting construction drawings and renderings to translate CHI’s designs to reality. She started her interior design journey through real estate staging and acquired her Bachelor of Science in Interior Design at San Francisco State University. Her current favorite design styles are Postmodernism, Japandi, and Mid-Century Modern with earthy neutrals and splashes of calming colors. She enjoys her weekends out in the sun eating at new food places with her husband and senior dog.
Website design, branding, and illustrations by Blakely Hiner. Footer image credit: Korean Bojagi, patchwork rami, Korea, ca. 1940, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.