What a Best of Houzz Badge Means on a Pro’s Profile

Here’s a guide to the Best of Houzz awards and how you can connect with winning pros near you

Houzz AU 29 January 2021

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If you spot a Best of Houzz badge on a home professional’s profile page, you’ve come across a person or firm whose work truly stands out. 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.

Only a little more than three percent of Houzz’s 2.5 million active global home professionals win each year. In many cases, that means the winning photos garnered thousands or even tens of thousands of Ideabook saves. In other words, Best of Houzz winners are professionals and designs that seriously wow the Houzz community.

KTR Creations

This Perth home in WA won a Best of Houzz 2021 Design award for KTR Creations

Earlier this week, winners of the 2021 Best of Houzz awards were announced in the categories of Design, Service and Photography – chosen by you, the Houzz community, comprised of millions of homeowners and design professionals around the world.

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Renotech Building Pty Ltd

This Sydney bathroom in NSW won a Best of Houzz 2021 Design award for Renotech Building

Best of Houzz Service
The Best of Houzz Service awards reflect a professional’s overall rating and client reviews submitted during the year. To qualify for a Best of Houzz Service award, Houzz professionals need at least one client review from a project completed in the year under consideration (2020 for 2021 awards) and at least two reviews overall.

Fenton & Fenton

This Melbourne entrance in Victoria won a Best of Houzz 2021 Design award for Fenton & Fenton

Here are a few details on the impressive badges and how to find the right award-winning professional for your next project or help an expert you loved working with get recognised.

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Justin Loe Architects

This Sydney living room in NSW won a Best of Houzz 2021 Design award for Justin Loe Architects

Best of Houzz Design
The next category, Best of Houzz Design, celebrates home professionals whose work was most popular among Houzz users in the past year. That means photos of their work garnered the most user engagement and Ideabook saves, among other things. This photo, for example, was chosen as a Best of Houzz winner in 2021, as were the other photos in this story.

Hannah Puechmarin

Hannah Puechmarin won a Best of Houzz 2021 Photography award for this home in Brisbane, Queensland

Best of Houzz Photography
Photographers can earn Best of Houzz recognition as well, in the form of a Best of Houzz Photography badge. These badges are given to architecture and interior design photographers whose images were the most popular on Houzz during the year.

Best of Houzz 2021 Design badge

How Best of Houzz badges work
Winners’ Best of Houzz badges automatically appear on their Houzz profile pages alongside any previously won badges. They also come with marketing materials that professionals can use to share their winning news with clients and professional networks through their own social channels and websites.

Best of Houzz 2021 Service badge

This year, we gave our Best of Houzz badges a fresh look! The new badges adopt the distinctive angle from the Houzz logo, which evokes a roofline and reflects how Houzz helps people make a home uniquely their own.

iSpace Solutions

This Sydney powder room in NSW won a Best of Houzz award for iSpace Solutions

How to help your favourite professionals get recognised
If you’ve worked with a stellar professional on a home project and want the rest of the Houzz community to know about it, consider writing a positive review on that professional’s Houzz profile page. Your praises could help them earn the client ratings needed to score a Best of Houzz Service award.

Love a photo or project you see on Houzz? Save it to your Ideabooks. More photo saves make a Best of Houzz Design or Best of Houzz Photography win more likely.

Your turn
Which of these designs is your pick of the bunch? Tell us in the Comments below, like this story, remember to save the images and other photos you love on Houzz, and join the conversation.

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