LakeHouse was originally established in 1988 as a design studio devoted to licensing product and surface designs to manufacturers in the craft, home textile, gift, stationery & wallpaper industries.

Prior to that it's founder, Holly Holderman enjoyed a successful career in interior architecture and design devoted to small commercial and residential projects with offices in Marin County California and New York City.

Holly has loved quilts for as long as she can remember. She made her first quilt as a teenager and began collecting antique quilts and quilt blocks in her late teens. Her first quilt purchase was a Texas Star, it remains one of her favorites to this day.

Fifteen years after it's inception, LakeHouse the design licensing studio morphed into LakeHouse Dry Goods a textile design, converting & importing business with an emphasis on fabrics for quilting, baby bedding and children's clothing.  LakeHouse project patterns patterns for lap, wall & bed quilts and the like are being written & published by ItsSewEmma.com. In 2014, Holly also started designing patterns for Cut Loose Press.

Holly's best-selling designs have appeared in numerous magazines like McCall's Quilting, McCall's Quick Quilts, American Patchwork and Quilting, Quilts and More, Fab Shop News, Home Fashion Daily, Country Home, Country Living and Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion.

Twice a year, LakeHouse displays new designs at both the International Quilt Market / Spring and International Quilt Market / Fall. The Sunrise Studio 1, Pam Kitty Garden Aqua & Pam Kitty Garden Navy collections will be delivered to Independent Quilt Shops worldwide in December 2014.

At International Quilt Market in Houston in October 2014, 3 new collections were introduced: Sunrise Studio 2, Fog City Kitty, & LakeHouse Favorites featuring the return of Holly's much-loved seed catalogue print:  LH10064 Red.