Anne Holbrook Interior Design

Anne Holbrook Interior Design Our spaces are envisioned to bring forth the best of what life has to offer.

As cliché as it sounds, art makes a room and I love selecting art for clients.At the poolhouse, I knew art would play ...
08/25/2026

As cliché as it sounds, art makes a room and I love selecting art for clients.

At the poolhouse, I knew art would play a key role in setting the tone as well as break up the large expanses of white walls. Foundational to the theme for the artwork selects were a celebration of bathing culture, Italy, celebration, and a few nods to the family members’ interests. When I couldn’t find the scale and subject of the piece I envisioned for the kitchenette, I offered to tap into my former graphic design days and design a custom 1/1 piece for the client. It’s a delight to discover new artists and visit long-standing favorites, to map out how pieces will hang together and the story that they tell the people experiencing them, and of course work with Level Eye to expertly hang it all. In the end, the poolhouse has nearly 40 pieces of art to delight in no matter where you are within it. This is the dolce vita!

Architect: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
Art Installation: Level Eye
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

Adjacent to the pooldeck dining at the poolhouse is the pizza kitchen. With a custom fabricated awning created by BOY ...
08/10/2026

Adjacent to the pooldeck dining at the poolhouse is the pizza kitchen. With a custom fabricated awning created by BOY BOY, the space provides a covered patio for the pizza oven and work table for easy access to fresh slices from the dinner table. Buon appetito!

Awning Fabrication: BOY BOY
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

We’re delighted over here by all of the love for the poolhouse featured Sunset Magazine.This project will forever be a...
08/06/2026

We’re delighted over here by all of the love for the poolhouse featured Sunset Magazine.

This project will forever be a special one — a great architectural foundation and materials, a talented GC and trade team who brought it to life, trusting clients who let AHID run with the vision, and a most perfect day to capture it all (it rained the very next day!)…plus, who doesn’t want their workday to consist of spending it at a poolhouse in a beautiful location for months?!

Thank you Sunset Magazine for the feature. Forever grateful. 🙏

Architect: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

20 years ago I married the love of my life. Our story is one of a deep love and deep adversity and putting in the work o...
08/05/2026

20 years ago I married the love of my life. Our story is one of a deep love and deep adversity and putting in the work on ourselves and each other to bring us to today. OOO today to celebrate us. 💚💚

It’s a lovely evening for a poolside long dinner al fresco. No matter how you’re spending your Friday evening I hope it’...
08/01/2026

It’s a lovely evening for a poolside long dinner al fresco. No matter how you’re spending your Friday evening I hope it’s a a delightful one, good humans.



GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

The great room in the poolhouse serves multiple functions — a kitchenette for making drinks and snacks, a lounge area,...
07/30/2026

The great room in the poolhouse serves multiple functions — a kitchenette for making drinks and snacks, a lounge area, and a gaming zone where the husband’s collection of pinball machines reside. The space provides a great foundation with polished concrete floors, high tongue and groove ceilings, and wonderful natural light.

We opted for carpet floor tiles with an abstract animal print in the lounge area that would allow for a single tile to be replaced should someone spill their celebratory beverage and leave a stain. An extra deep chenille upholstered sofa with down wrapped cushions provides a perfect spot for an afternoon cat nap and the adjacent velvet swivel chairs provide flexible seating between the lounge and game zones. The black and white bone inlay round coffee table gives a nod to the market umbrellas outside while being a statement piece all its own.

With an oversized TV on a large white wall, we opted to run artwork the full length of the wall to tell a story and help blend in the large screen.

In the kitchenette we stocked the cupboards with pool-safe drinkware and dishes, selected large opal glass pendants to create a soft glow, layered a rug for softness under foot, and hung drink-inspired artwork on the wall, including designing an oversized custom graphic print.

The Dolce Vita Modern Poolhouse provides something for everyone to live their best life in style. CIN CIN!

Architect: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

The laundry room at the poolhouse serves the functional purpose of laundering towels and wet swimsuits to keep things ...
07/29/2026

The laundry room at the poolhouse serves the functional purpose of laundering towels and wet swimsuits to keep things well-stocked. It also serves as a pass-thru from the great room into the bathroom and this presented an opportunity for a “moment.”

The interior finishes throughout the poolhouse are clean and streamlined — polished concrete floors, warm white paint, tongue and groove paneled ceilings and wonderful light.

Given the client’s love of a leopard print, I suggested creating a bit of a delight for people in the laundry room. It inherently isn’t a room where people congregate and given that it serves two functional purposes but neither of which take a lot of time, it seemed the perfect opportunity to layer the client’s personality in a enveloping way. We had the ceiling and all walls wallpapered in a black and white graphic leopard print and sourced additional artwork in keeping with the bathing culture and Italian themes running throughout the poolhouse. We added a black and white striped bone inlay tray, glass decanter for laundry detergent storage, and found the perfect vintage brass cup for measuring said detergent. In the end, the result makes even doing laundry part of la dolce vita.

Architecture: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

The poolhouse bathroom can serve as both a changing room and a full bathroom should guests want to shower after their ...
07/28/2026

The poolhouse bathroom can serve as both a changing room and a full bathroom should guests want to shower after their swim. We treated the space as another opportunity to accommodate guests in whatever way best served them. Entrance to the bathroom can be accessed from the outdoor living room so wet feet don’t have to walk through the whole space or via the interior.

We layered artwork in keeping with the themes of swimming and bathing culture that were used throughout the poolhouse, an elongated pill-shaped mirror over the vanity, tucked a garbage can inside the cabinet and stocked a soap dispenser with handsoap that smells like summer.

We added hooks to the tongue and groove back of a built-in bench for bathroom towel storage, added a custom bench cushion in a water resistant leopard print fabric with a faux leather black welt in keeping with the client’s affection for leopard print, and stored bathroom towels in the nook underneath.

La dolce vita for the clients and their guests alike!

Architect: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

The covered outdoor living room of the poolhouse provides a space for shade-bathing while still being part of the acti...
07/25/2026

The covered outdoor living room of the poolhouse provides a space for shade-bathing while still being part of the action.

In this space we paired two woven outdoor couches facing one another with matching ottomans placed between them to act as a versatile coffee table all situated on a large outdoor rug. We layered black and white striped throw pillows, replicating the pool deck market umbrellas, metal trays for placing drinks, wire baskets for easy-access clean towel storage, and a stack of custom made marine-grade poolside cushions for guests to use if they just want a leg dip versus a full dip in the pool. Wall hooks were mounted outside the bathroom door for people to place their used towels for drying, and large planters shaped like stemless champagne flutes were planted with olive trees to bring a natural element while adding vertical interest.

We discussed with the client how the space could be used in the evenings for a more quiet experience — long conversations over a glass(es) of bubbles with girlfriends soaking in the delights of the day. For these moments we envisioned layered lighting and sourced extra large glass lanterns and LED powered candles.

Every conceived moment thought through with intention, designed to bring forth the best that life has to offer. La dolce vita!

Architect: Emerick Architects
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
📷: Zee Wendell Photography
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

The evening light at the poolhouse is golden magic. As we discussed how the client dreamed of utilizing the space the ...
07/25/2026

The evening light at the poolhouse is golden magic. As we discussed how the client dreamed of utilizing the space the notion of lingering meals al fresco was key.

The requirements were for the ability to seat eight in chairs comfortable enough that people weren’t springing to get up from the table while also in a material that could withstand staying outside through a Pacific Northwest winter. We selected a fabricated metal table and chairs that felt modern but with a European feel and replicated the pool deck market umbrellas in a rectangular shape.

Glassware and breakable dishes are not a good mix for a pool deck where bare feet are the norm. We sourced pool safe dinnerware in a Sicilian tile pattern, brass flatware, linen napkins embroidered with the family name, hobnail style drinkware and stemless champagne flutes suitable for stylish long family dinners adjacent to the outdoor pizza oven. This is la dolce vita!

📷: Zee Wendell Photography
GC: RightAngle Construction Oregon
Architect: Emerick Architects
ID: ANNE HOLBROOK INTERIOR DESIGN

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