How to Earn a Best of Houzz Badge
Here’s a guide to the annual Best of Houzz awards and how pros can come out on top
This story has been updated with photos of Best of Houzz 2021 award winners.
The annual Best of Houzz awards recognize the top-rated home pros and most popular designs on Houzz, by category and area, across the country and around the world. Now is a great time to set yourself up to earn one of these impressive badges for your hard work.
The annual Best of Houzz awards recognize the top-rated home pros and most popular designs on Houzz, by category and area, across the country and around the world. Now is a great time to set yourself up to earn one of these impressive badges for your hard work.
Lorraine Levinson Interior Design won a Best of Houzz Design award for this New York living room.
Best of Houzz Service
Best of Houzz Service awards are judged on such factors as a pro’s overall rating and client reviews submitted during the year. To qualify for a Best of Houzz Service award, pros on Houzz need at least one client review from a project completed in the year leading up to the award year and one other client review since joining Houzz. By encouraging your happy customers to talk you up using the Get Reviews link on your profile page, you can boost the chances of your work being recognized with an award. And the earlier in the year you start that review-getting process, the more time your clients will have to sing your praises.
See the new Best of Houzz page and get tips for earning an award
Best of Houzz Service
Best of Houzz Service awards are judged on such factors as a pro’s overall rating and client reviews submitted during the year. To qualify for a Best of Houzz Service award, pros on Houzz need at least one client review from a project completed in the year leading up to the award year and one other client review since joining Houzz. By encouraging your happy customers to talk you up using the Get Reviews link on your profile page, you can boost the chances of your work being recognized with an award. And the earlier in the year you start that review-getting process, the more time your clients will have to sing your praises.
See the new Best of Houzz page and get tips for earning an award
This Boston bathroom photo won Cummings Architecture + Interiors a Best of Houzz Design award. The firm also won a Best of Houzz Service award.
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 Design winner, as were the other photos in this story.
If you’re not doing so already, upload new project photos as soon as you have them. That will set you up for getting the most ideabook saves.
Other best practices also can improve your chances of winning. Adding keywords and topics to newly uploaded photos, for instance, can make them more searchable and therefore more popular among Houzz users.
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 Design winner, as were the other photos in this story.
If you’re not doing so already, upload new project photos as soon as you have them. That will set you up for getting the most ideabook saves.
Other best practices also can improve your chances of winning. Adding keywords and topics to newly uploaded photos, for instance, can make them more searchable and therefore more popular among Houzz users.
Alisberg Parker won a Best of Houzz Design award for this New York patio. The architecture and interiors firm also earned a Service award.
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 most popular among Houzz users in the past year.
These awards are tallied in the same manner as the Design awards, and the same considerations and tips apply. This includes starting to upload photos early in the year and adding the proper keywords and topics.
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 most popular among Houzz users in the past year.
These awards are tallied in the same manner as the Design awards, and the same considerations and tips apply. This includes starting to upload photos early in the year and adding the proper keywords and topics.
Best of Houzz badges appear on the winners’ profiles.
How Best of Houzz Badges Work
Winners’ Best of Houzz badges automatically appear on their Houzz profile pages. Winners are encouraged to share the good news with their larger network and potential future clients. High-resolution versions of badges are available to use in marketing materials.
Winners also receive an email with a full promotional kit that helps them get the most exposure for their award.
How Best of Houzz Badges Work
Winners’ Best of Houzz badges automatically appear on their Houzz profile pages. Winners are encouraged to share the good news with their larger network and potential future clients. High-resolution versions of badges are available to use in marketing materials.
Winners also receive an email with a full promotional kit that helps them get the most exposure for their award.
This Raleigh, North Carolina, entry photo earned a Best of Houzz Design award for Bartone Interiors, which also won a Service award.
The Best of the Best
Though we don’t publish a list of all winners, winners’ work does appear in a Houzz photo gallery each year. The images can be filtered by country, metro area and room type. You can also spot winners by checking out Houzz profile pages and looking for the badges.
Just 3% of Houzz’s 2.5 million active home pros 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 pros and designs that seriously wow the Houzz community.
View all the Best of Houzz 2021 award winners
The Best of the Best
Though we don’t publish a list of all winners, winners’ work does appear in a Houzz photo gallery each year. The images can be filtered by country, metro area and room type. You can also spot winners by checking out Houzz profile pages and looking for the badges.
Just 3% of Houzz’s 2.5 million active home pros 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 pros and designs that seriously wow the Houzz community.
View all the Best of Houzz 2021 award winners
EuroCraft Interiors Custom Cabinetry outside Detroit won a Best of Houzz Design award for this laundry room.
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Winners are announced annually in the categories of Design, Service and Photography — chosen by the Houzz community of millions of homeowners.
Here are a few details on the awards and a few pointers on how you and your work can earn the coveted honor.
See the Best of Houzz 2021 winners