Are You a Pro on Houzz? Here’s How to Earn a Best of Houzz Badge
Wondering how the Best of Houzz awards work? Check out this guide with tips on how to win
The annual Best of Houzz awards are an opportunity to highlight the top-rated home professionals and most popular designs on Houzz, by category and area, across the country and around the world. Here’s a guide to help you earn one of these impressive green badges for your hard work.
Armstrong Simmonds Architects won a Best of Houzz Service award.
Best of Houzz Service
This award is judged on a professional’s overall rating and the client reviews that were submitted during the year. It’s is based on an algorithm that takes into account a variety of community activities.
Professionals with at least one client review for a project completed in the previous year and two client reviews overall are eligible for a Best of Houzz Service award.
Boost your chances of winning one of these awards by encouraging your happy clients to provide a positive testimonial with the Get Reviews link on your profile page.
It’s a good idea to start this process early in the year, to give your clients enough time to rave about you.
“Winning the service badges has been very satisfying for me on a personal and professional level. It reinforces what I’m striving to provide and I think it also helps me to win new business,” interior designer Claudia Dorsch says.
“I encourage new customers who are considering my proposal to read my reviews,” she says, “and I think the reviews and the badges are a good marketing tool and offer a level of reassurance to clients.”
Best of Houzz Service
This award is judged on a professional’s overall rating and the client reviews that were submitted during the year. It’s is based on an algorithm that takes into account a variety of community activities.
Professionals with at least one client review for a project completed in the previous year and two client reviews overall are eligible for a Best of Houzz Service award.
Boost your chances of winning one of these awards by encouraging your happy clients to provide a positive testimonial with the Get Reviews link on your profile page.
It’s a good idea to start this process early in the year, to give your clients enough time to rave about you.
“Winning the service badges has been very satisfying for me on a personal and professional level. It reinforces what I’m striving to provide and I think it also helps me to win new business,” interior designer Claudia Dorsch says.
“I encourage new customers who are considering my proposal to read my reviews,” she says, “and I think the reviews and the badges are a good marketing tool and offer a level of reassurance to clients.”
This photo won No.54 Interiors a Best of Houzz Design award.
Best of Houzz Design
This category highlights the home professionals whose work was most popular among Houzz users in the past year. Photos of the winners’ work will have gained the most user engagement and ideabook saves, among other things.
Emma Merry of Emma Merry Styling says that, for her, the badges are a helpful differentiating factor for prospective clients looking for a designer on Houzz. “For our studio, it’s overwhelming to have received the recognition of the Best of Houzz,” she says. “It cements us as a design practice that will deliver a high standard from concept to completion, with a single badge.”
Remember to upload photos as soon as possible after finishing a project. This will provide more opportunity for users to save them this year and in subsequent years.
Also try adding keywords and topics to newly uploaded photos, as this makes it easier for Houzz users to find them.
Best of Houzz Design
This category highlights the home professionals whose work was most popular among Houzz users in the past year. Photos of the winners’ work will have gained the most user engagement and ideabook saves, among other things.
Emma Merry of Emma Merry Styling says that, for her, the badges are a helpful differentiating factor for prospective clients looking for a designer on Houzz. “For our studio, it’s overwhelming to have received the recognition of the Best of Houzz,” she says. “It cements us as a design practice that will deliver a high standard from concept to completion, with a single badge.”
Remember to upload photos as soon as possible after finishing a project. This will provide more opportunity for users to save them this year and in subsequent years.
Also try adding keywords and topics to newly uploaded photos, as this makes it easier for Houzz users to find them.
Alison Hammond Photography won a Best of Houzz Photography award.
Best of Houzz Photography
If you’re a photographer, you can win a Best of Houzz badge, too. These awards are given to architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular on Houzz during the past year.
It works in the same way as the Design awards, so increase your chances by uploading photos early in the year and adding relevant keywords and topics.
Best of Houzz Photography
If you’re a photographer, you can win a Best of Houzz badge, too. These awards are given to architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular on Houzz during the past year.
It works in the same way as the Design awards, so increase your chances by uploading photos early in the year and adding relevant keywords and topics.
How Best of Houzz badges work
If you win a Best of Houzz badge, it will automatically pop up on your Houzz profile page. To help you share the good news with your wider network, there are high-resolution versions of the badges available.
You’ll also receive an email with a full promotional kit to find out how to get the most exposure for you award.
“I promote myself using the badges,” Claudia says. “I have them on my website and my email sign-off.”
If you win a Best of Houzz badge, it will automatically pop up on your Houzz profile page. To help you share the good news with your wider network, there are high-resolution versions of the badges available.
You’ll also receive an email with a full promotional kit to find out how to get the most exposure for you award.
“I promote myself using the badges,” Claudia says. “I have them on my website and my email sign-off.”
The best of the best
To take a look at all the design winners, visit this Houzz photo gallery. The images can be filtered by country, metro area and room type. Another way to identify a winner is to look out for badges on their Houzz profile.
These coveted awards are given to just over 3% of the millions of active home professionals on Houzz. Often, the winning photos have been saved to ideabooks thousands, or even tens of thousand times, so it’s clear that Best of Houzz winners will have had a big impact on the Houzz community.
Find out more about Best of Houzz and how you could win a badge.
Tell us…
Have you won a Best of Houzz award, or are you hoping to win one in the future? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
To take a look at all the design winners, visit this Houzz photo gallery. The images can be filtered by country, metro area and room type. Another way to identify a winner is to look out for badges on their Houzz profile.
These coveted awards are given to just over 3% of the millions of active home professionals on Houzz. Often, the winning photos have been saved to ideabooks thousands, or even tens of thousand times, so it’s clear that Best of Houzz winners will have had a big impact on the Houzz community.
Find out more about Best of Houzz and how you could win a badge.
Tell us…
Have you won a Best of Houzz award, or are you hoping to win one in the future? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
Each February, Houzz announces its Best of Houzz awards. These prestigious badges cover three categories – Design, Service and Photography – and are chosen by the millions of homeowners in the Houzz community.
Here’s a guide to the awards and some tips on how you can be recognised for your work.
See the 2024 Best of Houzz Design winners here.