This past March I was honored to attend Detroit Home Magazine's 2012 Design Awards Gala. Every spring the magazine awards the area's top designers and architects for their achievements in design in a wide range of categories. I've looked to these winning designs over the years as inspiration, so it was especially thrilling this year to hear I had won two awards upon my first year entering.
When submitting entries for the awards, I selected two of my children's room designs for the Children's Room category. I had just completed them for a client here in Northville and was so pleased with how well they photographed. I spent a lot of time refining the details in these rooms to ensure that everything would reflect the girls' tastes, be fun, yet also grow with them over time. To me, the combination of those three is what helps makes a successful children's room. And upon their transformations, I also felt they could be inspiring for other children's rooms.
After submitting my designs to the magazine in the fall, I had to wait until January for their panel of judges to review all entries to find out if I had placed. Sure enough a beautiful, orange envelope from Detroit Home appeared in my mailbox mid-January and I was elated to discover I had won for both rooms! I wouldn't know which places I'd won until the Awards Gala, but that didn't matter too much after realizing that I'd finally have my work published in a magazine, a long-time goal of mine :)
Complete List of Interior Design Winners
When submitting entries for the awards, I selected two of my children's room designs for the Children's Room category. I had just completed them for a client here in Northville and was so pleased with how well they photographed. I spent a lot of time refining the details in these rooms to ensure that everything would reflect the girls' tastes, be fun, yet also grow with them over time. To me, the combination of those three is what helps makes a successful children's room. And upon their transformations, I also felt they could be inspiring for other children's rooms.
After submitting my designs to the magazine in the fall, I had to wait until January for their panel of judges to review all entries to find out if I had placed. Sure enough a beautiful, orange envelope from Detroit Home appeared in my mailbox mid-January and I was elated to discover I had won for both rooms! I wouldn't know which places I'd won until the Awards Gala, but that didn't matter too much after realizing that I'd finally have my work published in a magazine, a long-time goal of mine :)
Complete List of Interior Design Winners
1st Place - Children's Room Design
2nd Place - Children's Room Design
When March rolled around and it was time for the Awards Gala I took my good friend and design consultant, Erica Shy, with me to enjoy the evening. We had a great time strolling the GM Heritage Center with delicious food, cocktails, and mingling with the other designers and vendors. When they started announcing the winners, it was so fun for us to view these designs in detail on the large screen projectors. For design enthusiasts, such as Erica and myself, it was a real treat. After hearing previous winners tying themselves for projects, I jokingly told Erica "I bet I tied myself for 3rd place," but was pleasantly (and I mean very pleasantly) surprised to hear I had won First and Second! We did a little happy dance in our seats and then composed ourselves to take in the rest of the night's winning designs :)
Below is a highlight video from the Gala, and if you look closely you can spot me in it a couple times!
Detroit Home Design Awards 2012 Presentation Video from Hour Media on Vimeo.
The 8th Annual Detroit Home Design Awards took place at the GM Heritage Center on March 15th, 2012. Guests enjoyed cocktails, strolling dinner and a presentation of the 2012 Detroit Home Design Awards.
The excitement of winning two awards was fantastic, but even better than that, the feeling of being included in this elite group of designers, representing our hometown of Detroit made the whole experience so special. And while I'm still thrilled from the awards (and buying copies of this spring's issue left and right), I'm also looking forward to the projects I'm wrapping up now. I've been doing a lot of remodeling jobs lately, and hopefully some of these great transformations can be photographed in time to enter the awards for next year.
As always stay tuned for more updates, but be sure to pick up a copy of this spring's magazine (or check out the Digital Edition) to appreciate all the stunning designs!
As always stay tuned for more updates, but be sure to pick up a copy of this spring's magazine (or check out the Digital Edition) to appreciate all the stunning designs!
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