2010 Best in American Living Award Winners!

The Best in American Living Awards (BALA) has been a competition recognizing design excellence in the building industry for over 25 years. At the BALA awards ceremony this year (during the NAHB International Builders' Show), 59 winners were honored for their innovation and creativity in 28 different categories, ranging from best custom and spec homes to best remodel and community designs. Visbeen Associates received six BALAs, including the prestigious Best in the Midwest Region, which we have been awarded four out of the last five years of this competition!

Best in Midwest Region: East 8th Street

Builder: Bouwkamp Builders • Interiors: Cyndy Schurman

1st Place - Remodel Specialty Project: East 8th Street

Builder: Bouwkamp Builders • Interiors: Cyndy Schurman

1st Place - Single-family Detached Home (2,001-3,000 sq ft): Clareville

Builder: Jeff Segard • Interiors: Julie Holmes

1st Place - Single-family Detached Home (over 4,001 sq ft): Avonlea

Builder: Jeff Segard • Interiors: Julie Holmes

3rd Place - One-of-a-kind Spec Home (up to 4,000 sq ft): Sunsweet Hill

Builder: Distinctive Homes • Interiors: Kim Waltman

3rd Place - One-of-a-kind Spec Home (4,001-6,500 sq ft): Kearney Hill

Builder: Insignia Homes • Interiors: Julie Holmes

For more photos of these award winning homes, please visit our website.

2010 American Residential Design Awards

Shorepointe

1st Place

Renovation, 1500sf & over

Bear Tooth Lodge

1st Place

Conceptual Design, 2501 - 4000sf

East 8th Street

1st Place

Multi-Family Design, 4 units or more

Reynard

2nd Place

Custom Luxury, 5001 - 6000sf

Horizon View

2nd Place

Custom Luxury, 3000sf & under

Pinehurst

2nd Place

Model Home, 4001 & over

Blaine

2nd Place

Published Design, 4001sf & over

Stratton

2nd Place

Conceptual Design

Innisbrook

2nd Place

Working Drawings

2010 Watermark Awards

We're pleased to announce that Visbeen Associates won

1st Place for Best Kitchen in a Custom Home

for Two Creeks! See the article here.

Will we win?

Every year at the International Builders Show the National Association of Home Builders awards the Best in American Living Awards. We have won a few awards here in the past and have a few projects up for award again this year. Check them out and check back next week to see if we won. Here's hoping!

Muirfield

Westchester

Inverness

Two Creeks

Sinclaire

Rylestone

American Residential Design Awards

PRESS RELEASE: The American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) announced the winners of the second annual American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) in Portland, Oregon, during a banquet held in conjunction with the AIBD 59^th National Convention at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront hotel, Saturday, July 11, 2009. The winners were chosen from over 100 proposed and finished projects submitted by 31 designers located in 17 different states and the District of Columbia.

Wayne E. Visbeen of Visbeen Associates, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan, won the prestigious 2009 ARDA Best in Show award.

The projects entered were the work of Certified Professional and Professional Members of the AIBD. Categories included, Working Drawings, Un-Built Designs, Multi-Family, Community Design, Published Designs, Sustainability, Renovations, Builder Models, Custom Luxury Home Designs, Best in Show and Designer’s Choice. Design Competition Chairperson, Michael Battaglia, was pleased with the event, “The entries were outstanding and the judges were impressed by the difficulty of choosing a winner in many of the categories.”