Awards, press and features
Fifteen Awards and Twelve Features for Houston Interior Design
We keep this page as a record rather than a badge wall. Every award and every feature below carries the year it happened, the organization behind it, and a link so you can read the source yourself.
Fifteen Best of Houzz awards across nine consecutive years, a cover story in Cambria Style, and features in Business of Home, Houzz Magazine and The Metropolitan Builder, which has interviewed Jennifer twice. The work behind all of it is Houston renovations and new construction.
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Awards
Best of Houzz, every year from 2018 through 2026, split across the Design award and the Service award. Listed year by year with what each one is given for and where to verify it.
See the awards 12Press and Features
Cambria Style, Business of Home, Houzz Magazine, Houzz Pro, two Metropolitan Builder interviews, Tile Club, a Tile Trends podcast episode and Voyage Houston. Each entry links out to the source itself.
Read the featuresMost recent awards
Nine straight years of Best of Houzz
Houzz gives two separate awards. Design is decided by how the community responds to a firm's portfolio. Service is decided by client review volume and rating. We have won at least one of them every year since 2018.
Best of Houzz, Design and Service
Both awards in the same year. Houzz Magazine pulled a Houston bathroom of ours into its roundup of storage ideas from the 2026 winners, citing the frameless mirrored medicine cabinet with integrated LED lighting.
Read the Houzz Magazine featureBest of Houzz, Service
Awarded on client review volume and rating across the year. The same season, a JKD project ran as the cover story of Cambria Style.
Verify on our Houzz profileBest of Houzz, Design
Awarded on portfolio popularity across the Houzz community, which is the closest thing the platform has to a public vote.
Verify on our Houzz profileJennifer on the awards
For me and my team, the Best of Houzz awards translate to: Hey, we’re doing something right!
Selected features
Where the work has been published
Spring 2025 cover story
Gateway Condo, a full renovation of a three-story condo in The Woodlands, worked up against a prewar New York penthouse reference. Cambria runs the magazine for its own quartz surfaces, and the cover slot goes to one project a season.
Open the Spring 2025 issueDialogue With a Designer
August 2023, Greater Houston edition. The second of two long-form interviews the magazine has run with Jennifer, on founding the studio and on what has changed in the trade since 2016. It serves the Houston builder market, which is most of who we work alongside.
Read the reprint, PDF4 Fresh Midsize Bathrooms With a Low-Curb Shower
Our own kids’ bathroom in League City, fifty square feet, redone around slate blue four-by-twelve tile in a stacked pattern and Tricorn Black trim. Jennifer explains in the piece why the low curb was the decision the whole room turned on.
Read it on HouzzThe Service award is decided by clients rather than a panel. Read what they wrote.
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Awards are a decent proxy for whether a studio finishes what it starts. The better test is a conversation. We walk the space, talk through scope honestly, and you leave knowing what your project actually takes.