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43rd Better Homes Awards
2025 Categories
Best Custom Home
This category celebrates excellence in custom residential construction, showcasing homes that are uniquely designed to reflect the lifestyle, personality, and vision of the homeowner. Entries should demonstrate outstanding craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and innovative use of materials, while meeting the specific needs and preferences of the client.
Most Creative Home Feature
This category highlights a single, standout design or architectural element that brings originality, innovation, and personality to a home. Whether it’s a hidden door, a one-of-a-kind staircase, an inventive use of space, or a show-stopping material choice, this award honors the features that make a home unforgettable. Entries should demonstrate ingenuity, functionality, and a strong visual or experiential impact.
Best Outdoor Feature
This category honors exceptional exterior elements that enhance the beauty, functionality, and enjoyment of outdoor living spaces. From patios, pools, and pergolas to outdoor kitchens, landscaping, and unique architectural features, entries should showcase creativity, craftsmanship, and seamless integration with the home and its natural surroundings. This award celebrates designs that turn the outdoors into a true extension of the home.
Best Remodel/Renovation
This category recognizes transformative projects that breathe new life into existing spaces. Entries should demonstrate thoughtful design, expert execution, and a clear improvement in form and function. This award celebrates the creativity and craftsmanship required to turn challenges into beautiful, functional, and refreshed living environments.
Best Kitchen Remodel
This category honors outstanding transformations of one of the home’s most important spaces—the kitchen. Entries should showcase thoughtful design, quality materials, and innovative solutions that enhance both aesthetics and functionality. Whether modern, traditional, or somewhere in between, winning projects will demonstrate how smart renovation can elevate the heart of the home.
Best Bathroom Remodel
This category celebrates exceptional updates to bathrooms that combine style, comfort, and functionality. Entries should highlight creative design, quality craftsmanship, and effective use of space and materials. From spa-inspired retreats to smart, space-saving solutions, this award honors projects that turn everyday routines into elevated experiences.
2025 VBRA Golf Tournament!
Date: Friday, September 19, 2025
Time: 8:00 am Registration. 9:00 am Shotgun Start
1:00 - 3:00 pm BBQ
Location: Cedar Knoll Country Club
13020 Route 116
Hinesburg, VT 05461
Costs:
$585.00 per team of (4) or $150.00 per single player.
Be a Corporate Banner Sponsor for $1,075! Includes team of (4), opportunity to hang a Banner off the Club House Deck, recognition at lunch BBQ and in program, opportunity to add giveaways to gift bags.
Be a Corporate Sponsor for $875.00! Includes team of (4), Hole Sign Sponsorship (with logo on Score Card), recognition at lunch BBQ and in program, opportunity to add giveaways to gift bags.
Price includes registration, greens fees, carts, snack bags and award BBQ.
Click the Register button at the top.
Non-golfers, please join us for the BBQ to celebrate! Price: $40.00
Click Here to Visit our Event Webpage!
Additional Sponsorship opportunities are available
in the VBRA Store
For more information please or for any questions please email:
info@homebuildersvt.com
Title: OSHA 10-Hour for Construction
Date: 9/22 & 9/23 Time: 8:30am-1:30pm
Location: EastRise Credit Union - 141 Harvest Lane, Williston, VT
Hosted by: VBRA and Katie Frederick, CSP, CHST, OHST of ASC, LLC.
Price: $225/pp VBRA members; $250 p/p for non-members
Course description:
If you work in construction, you need to know how to identify and remedy common job-site safety hazards, select appropriate protective measures, and determine methods to correct unsafe working conditions.
ASC’s 10-Hour Construction Industry Outreach Training focuses on best practices for identifying and protecting workers against the Fatal Four: Fall Protection, Struck-By, Caught-In or Between and Electrocution. This course covers how to prevent slipping, tripping, getting struck by an object, electrocution, and getting caught in between objects or machinery. Whether entry-level or refresher training, ASC aims to increase your knowledge about construction-specific safety measures under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of completion. OSHA 10-Hour Construction DOL card will arrive within 6-8 weeks.
This year’s Better Homes Awards (BHA) will take place at the stunning St. John’s Club, nestled along the scenic shores of Lake Champlain. Join us for an evening of celebration, connection, and recognition as we honor the exceptional projects and craftsmanship that have shaped our communities. Guests will enjoy a delicious catered meal from Cloud 9, complete with a cash bar and breathtaking waterfront views
When: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Where: St. John's Club
Menu:
Farmer's Salad | Little gem lettuce, radish, cucumber, peas, carrots, herbs, confit ramp, Vinaigrette
Sandwich Options:
Chicken Salad Sandwich | tarragon aioli
Shaved Steak Sandwich | horseradish creme fraiche
Caprese Sandwich | basil aioli (vegetarian)
Seasonal Orzo Salad
Home-Made Potato Chips
Dessert: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dinner is catered by: Cloud 9 Caterers
Cash Bar
Meal Tickets will be available (and cancellations) through September 27, 2025.
REGISTRATION FINE PRINT
* Participants may cancel their registration without penalty up until 7 days prior to the event unless otherwise noted.
** Cancellations received less than 7 business days before, the day of, or after an event will not be eligible for a refund.
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