Autumn 2026Interior design in Hood River, Oregon
The feature
Rooms, kitchens and whole houses across the Columbia Gorge, with fewer, better things arranged around how you live.
Two hours in your home, a page of notes and a shopping list. Credited to your design fee.
$250
Floor plan, finishes, furniture and lighting for one room, every item priced.
From $1,800 a room
Layout, cabinets, tile and fixtures, drawn for your contractor.
From $4,500
Every room, including ordering, deliveries and installation day.
By proposal
Art hung, shelves edited, beds made. One designer, one day.
$900
For weekend houses outside the Gorge: plan, samples and a shopping list.
$650 a room
Cognac leather, mustard wool and one big fern. A family room on the Heights, finished in nine weeks.
It finally feels like us.
“Every price was on one page before anything was ordered. No surprises, and the install took a single day.”
“She kept our grandmother’s table and built the dining room around it. That’s exactly what we wanted.”
Most rooms aren’t wrong, they’re unfinished: a sofa bought in a hurry, a lamp from the last apartment, a wall nobody could decide on. Ilse Wren started the studio in 2008 to finish them.
Atelier Wren is four designers in a former fruit-packing office on Orchard Row, working across the Gorge and in Portland.
“Buy fewer things, and keep them longer.”
Every project starts with a two-hour visit and a plain question: how do you actually use this room? Then come the floor plan, the materials and a single page of prices, so the budget is settled before anything is ordered.
Most of the furniture comes from makers within a day’s drive: walnut tables from The Dalles, linen upholstery from Portland, lamps turned in Bingen. Clients pay trade prices, and the markup is shown on every invoice.
If the first concept isn’t right, the studio redraws it free until it is. Installation usually takes a single day: the team hangs the art, makes the beds and leaves when the room is ready to use.
Two hours in your home for $250, credited to your design fee if you go ahead. We reply within one working day.
(541) 555-0176 [email protected]
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5
Consultations by appointment