Earlier this month, the Seattle Design Center hosted the 14th annual North West Design Awards, honoring the best in design across categories including bathroom design, traditional and modern design, hospitality and even low-budget design.
Here is a look at this year’s winners:
Bathroom
First—Teresa Ryback, TDSwansburg Design Studio (Victoria, British Columbia)
Second—Cheri Wentworth, C.L. Wentworth Co. (Tumwater, WA)
Best Individual Room: Contemporary
First—Farouk Noormohamed, FNDA Architecture (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
Second—Kara Bowman, Macpherson Construction & Design (Sammamish, WA)
Best Individual Room: Traditional
First—Kassi Clark, Kasabella (Sammamish, WA)
Second—Donna DuFresne, Donna DuFresne Interior Design LLC (Portland, OR)
Commercial
First—JPC Architects (Bellevue, WA)
Second—DLR Group, (Seattle, WA)
Exotic Retreat
First—Nancy Burfiend, NB Design Group ( Seattle, WA)
Second—Teresa Francis, Westport Shipyard (Seattle, WA)
Hospitality
First—Jessica Helgerson, Jessica Helgerson Interior Design (Portland, OR)
Second—Philip Christofides, Arellano / Christofides (Seattle, WA)
Kitchen
First—Sandra and Scott Gjesdahl, Bristol Design and Construction (Lynnwood, WA)
Second—Karen Ellentuck, Ellentuck Interiors, (Seattle, WA)
Modest Budget, Big Impact
First—Trisa Chomica, Trisa & Company Interior Design (Port Angeles, WA)
Second—Wendy Albee, CGP, Albee Interior Design (Bothell, WA)
Most Innovative Design Component
First—Tyler Engle, Tyler Engle Architects (Seattle, WA)
Second—Seattle Stair & Design (Seattle, WA)
Outdoor Living Space
First—Dana Foster, DTF Design (Bothell, WA)
Second—James C. Castanes, Castanes Architects (Seattle, WA)
Small Design Firm Luminary
First—Linda Sale, Linda Sale Interior Design Ltd (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Second—Patricia Gray, Patricia Gray Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Student Design
First—Yalda Daneshfarnia, Bellevue College (Bellevue, WA)
Second—Josh Small, WSU School of Design and Construction (Pullman, WA)
Whole House Less than $400,000
First—Gray, Patricia Gray Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Second—Ines Hanl, The Sky is the Limit Design (Victoria, British Columbia)
Whole House More than $400,000
First—Mitchell Freedland, Mitchell Freedland Design (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Second—Burfiend, NB Design Group (Seattle, WA)