Everything You Want to Know About the 2019 Best of Houzz Awards
The 2019 badges for Houzz professionals are all out. We have your questions covered and share some tips for next time
It’s Best of Houzz awards season again, and the 2019 honours have recently been announced. If you were among those who won, congratulations! The Houzz community has spoken, and your stellar work has earned you a serious round of applause in the form of the nifty Best of Houzz 2019 badge or badges now adorning your Houzz profile page. If you didn’t score an award this year, you may have questions about how the badges are awarded and what you can do as a professional on Houzz to earn yours the next time around. Here are a few answers, as well as a few pointers for making the most of your recent, or future, Best of Houzz wins.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Living Room
Designer: Connors & Co
Tip: Didn’t happen for you this year? Don’t worry. The new year is a great time to focus on uploading beautiful professional photos of projects you’ve recently completed, so the community has more time to be inspired by them, save them to their ideabooks and connect with you on their own projects before next year’s awards are granted.
Designer: Connors & Co
Tip: Didn’t happen for you this year? Don’t worry. The new year is a great time to focus on uploading beautiful professional photos of projects you’ve recently completed, so the community has more time to be inspired by them, save them to their ideabooks and connect with you on their own projects before next year’s awards are granted.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Powder Room
Designer: Woodstock Industries
Q: What’s the difference between a Design badge and a Service badge?
A: A Best of Houzz Design award celebrates home professionals whose work was most popular among Houzz users in the past year, meaning photos of that work garnered the most user engagement and ideabook saves, among other things. A Best of Houzz Service award, on the other hand, depends on things like a professional’s overall rating and client reviews submitted in 2018.
Photographers can earn Best of Houzz recognition as well, in the form of a Best of Houzz Photography badge, given to architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular on Houzz.
Designer: Woodstock Industries
Q: What’s the difference between a Design badge and a Service badge?
A: A Best of Houzz Design award celebrates home professionals whose work was most popular among Houzz users in the past year, meaning photos of that work garnered the most user engagement and ideabook saves, among other things. A Best of Houzz Service award, on the other hand, depends on things like a professional’s overall rating and client reviews submitted in 2018.
Photographers can earn Best of Houzz recognition as well, in the form of a Best of Houzz Photography badge, given to architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular on Houzz.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Pool
Designer: Southern Cross Swimming Pools
Tip: Professionals on Houzz need at least one client review from a project completed in the previous year to qualify for a Best of Houzz Service award. Encourage happy customers to talk you up (and improve your chances of getting a Service award) by using the Get Reviews link on your profile page.
How to Encourage Your Client to Write a Positive Review
Designer: Southern Cross Swimming Pools
Tip: Professionals on Houzz need at least one client review from a project completed in the previous year to qualify for a Best of Houzz Service award. Encourage happy customers to talk you up (and improve your chances of getting a Service award) by using the Get Reviews link on your profile page.
How to Encourage Your Client to Write a Positive Review
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Landscape
Designer: TKD Architects
Q: Who will see my award? Can I share it elsewhere?
A: Your Best of Houzz badge(s) should automatically appear on your Houzz profile page but, yes, share the good news with your larger network and potential future clients. High-resolution versions of badges are available to use in your marketing materials upon request to our Houzz Support team.
Designer: TKD Architects
Q: Who will see my award? Can I share it elsewhere?
A: Your Best of Houzz badge(s) should automatically appear on your Houzz profile page but, yes, share the good news with your larger network and potential future clients. High-resolution versions of badges are available to use in your marketing materials upon request to our Houzz Support team.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Bedroom
Designer: H and G Designs
Tip: Winners will have received profile badges and a customisable press release included in the original Best of Houzz notification email, so go spread the word.
Designer: H and G Designs
Tip: Winners will have received profile badges and a customisable press release included in the original Best of Houzz notification email, so go spread the word.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Kitchen
Designer: Sheri Haby Architects
Q: I’d love to see this year’s winners’ work. Where should I look?
A: We can see why. While we don’t publish a list of all winners, their work appears in this gallery. The photos can be filtered by country, area and room type.
Tip: You can also spot winners by browsing professionals’ Houzz profile pages and looking for the badges.
Designer: Sheri Haby Architects
Q: I’d love to see this year’s winners’ work. Where should I look?
A: We can see why. While we don’t publish a list of all winners, their work appears in this gallery. The photos can be filtered by country, area and room type.
Tip: You can also spot winners by browsing professionals’ Houzz profile pages and looking for the badges.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Dining Room
Designer: Webb & Brown-Neaves
Q: Just how exclusive is this club?
A: Very exclusive. Only a little more than three percent of Houzz’s 2.3 million active home professionals win each year. In many cases, that means the winning photos garnered thousands to tens of thousands of ideabook saves. In other words, way to go, winners!
Tip: Tagging newly uploaded photos with relevant keywords and topics can make them more searchable, and therefore more popular, among Houzz users.
Designer: Webb & Brown-Neaves
Q: Just how exclusive is this club?
A: Very exclusive. Only a little more than three percent of Houzz’s 2.3 million active home professionals win each year. In many cases, that means the winning photos garnered thousands to tens of thousands of ideabook saves. In other words, way to go, winners!
Tip: Tagging newly uploaded photos with relevant keywords and topics can make them more searchable, and therefore more popular, among Houzz users.
Winner: Best of Houzz Design – Decks
Designer: Acre
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Designer: Glow Design Group
Q: I found out I won. What exactly does my new award represent?
A: We’re so glad you asked. The annual Best of Houzz awards recognise the top-rated home professionals and most popular designs on Houzz by category and area, across the country and around the world, so you’re in great company.
The Houzz community of more than 40 million monthly unique visitors selects a small number of winners in the categories of Design, Service and Photography each year. Basically, Houzz users think you and your work are a pretty big deal, and now you have a badge to prove it.