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Best Architect
Marin: Crome Architecture, San Rafael
Though the team does residential projects, they are perhaps best known for their restaurant and retail work, with clients such as Pottery Barn Kids, Williams Sonoma and Blue Bottle Coffee.
Bay Area: Sutton Suzuki Architects
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Runners Up
Marin: Chambers & Chambers, Mill Valley
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Bay Area: Wade Design Architects
Best Builder
Marin: Lamperti Contracting & Design, San Rafael
This business that beganby recognizing the kitchen as a home’s heart (and making cabinets to suit) now takes on complex projects, including bathroom retreats and home renovations.
Bay Area: Hadley General Contractors
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Runners Up
Marin: Diego Brothers, Inc., San Rafael
Bay Area: Jeff King & Company
Best Painter
Marin: Ross Painting, San Rafael
Contractors who leave a site tidy when they depart are a joy — add in plentiful compliments from voters about their thoroughness and professionalism and that
lands you at the top of our heap.
Bay Area: Flying Colors
Runners Up
Marin: Bob Kunst Painting, San Rafael
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Bay Area: Karoll Julian
Best Flooring
Marin: Architectural Design Carpets, San Rafael
Carpets, area rugs and a huge range of wood flooring make this business foundational to our voters.
Bay Area: Carpet Connection, San Francisco
Runners Up
Marin: City Carpets, San Rafael
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Bay Area: Chacon Flooring, San Francisco
Best Interior Design
Marin: Sandra Bird Designs, Kentfield
An eye attuned to the unique visual styling of Marin and the Bay Area and your own personal style blended into a harmonized whole earned a win for this long-time designer.
Bay Area: HSH Interiors, San Francisco
Runners Up
Marin: Robert Federighi Design, Novato
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Bay Area: Sunrise Home
Best Kitchen Design
Marin: Kress Jack at Home, Mill Valley
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Known for their eye for color and custom furniture, this design studio earns a nod for its immaculate and modern kitchen design.
Bay Area: Henrybuilt, multiple locations
Runners Up
Marin: Yami Arvelo of Moones Home, Novato
Bay Area: MAS Design, multiple locations
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Best Landscaping Company
Marin: Yardzen, Sausalito
Providing a simplified approach to landscape project planning using online tools, this familyrun business also offers flat-rate packages designed to streamline pricing.
Bay Area: Zeterre Landscape Architecture
Runners Up
Marin: Integrated Design Studio, Mill Valley
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Bay Area: Kearney Gardens, San Francisco
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Best Real Estate Company
Marin: Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, Greenbrae
It’s all about location, location, location — and the team understands the value of your property.
Bay Area: Coldwell Banker
Runners Up
Marin: Engel & Vöolkers, Sausalito
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Bay Area: Compass Realty, San Francisco
Best Home Organization Company
Marin: Changing Places, San Rafael
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From concierge services to helping you move and organizing your home or business, Changing Places is a one-stop shop for life’s transitions.
Bay Area: The Balanced Abode, San Francisco
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Runners Up
Marin: California Space Organizers, San Rafael
Bay Area: Diane Woodall Organizing
Best Outdoor/Patio Designer
Marin: Dig-It Landscape Design, Sausalito
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Principal Kellee Adams is a former organic farmer whose The Wave Garden was archived into the Smithsonian Institute’s library of noted.
Bay Area: Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture, San Francisco
If the stack of awards isn’t enough to convince you, perhaps their work with historic properties and rooftop gardens.
Runners Up
Marin: MAS Design, Tiburon
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Bay Area: Patio World, multiple locations
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Christina Mueller is a long-time Bay Area food writer. She hails from the East Coast and has spent way too much time in South America and Europe. She discovered her talent as a wordsmith in college and her love of all things epicurean in grad school. She has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Sunset, and the Marin Independent Journal, among others. She volunteers with California State Parks and at her child’s school, and supports the Marin Audubon Society, PEN America, and Planned Parenthood. When she is not drinking wine by a fire, she is known to spend time with her extended family.s the Assistant Editor at Marin Magazine and a graduate of Elon University where she studied Professional Writing and Fine Art. Born and raised in San Francisco/Marin, she loves traveling just as much as coming home to the Bay Area. She has curated a sophisticated palate for food, travel and culture and uses her travels as an outlet to develop her photography portfolio and hone her writing craft.
