It was a huge night for Rick LaBow, Tracy, Ed and Jared Bushnell, Chris Olsen, Charlie Mackall and Bill Warner.
   All came away from the Homebuilders Association of Kitsap County’s (HBA) annual Parade of Homes banquet, with the three huge, golden eagles, which sit atop the rotating, Best of Show trophies.
   The Parade of Homes is the HBA’s showcase event and the opportunity to honor its own for their craftsmanship and creativity, and where

Tracy Bushnell, Rick LaBow, winners of the Best Of Show.	Charlie Mackall and Bill Warner of N.W. Renovations, winners of the Best of Show, Remodeled Home, and the Built Green Award.

HBA members get to show off their newest and best work to the general public. The Best of Show Award is the highest recognition a local builder can achieve. It shows that his or her work has been judged by a panel of industry peers as the best of the best in any given year.
   There are classes for custom-built homes, new homes that are for sale and for remodeled homes. Except for the remodels, the homes are judged in price categories.

Best of Show, Custom Homes Bushnell Brothers Construction — Paulson Rd., Poulsbo

   LaBow, who works from the Old Town Silverdale offices of Kirkland-based Chaffey Homes, took the Best of Show Award in the For Sale Home over $750,000 category.
   The honors were for a home Chaffey built on Astoria Place on Bainbridge Island. This is the second time in the last three years the company, which has been building in Kitsap County for three decades, has been so honored. Chaffey was the Best of Show winner in 2002 as well, with that winning entry also located on Bainbridge Island.
   

Best of Show, For Sale Homes $750,000 and Over Chaffey Homes — Astoria Place, Bainbridge Island

The Bushnell Brothers, along with Olsen, who is a principle in the firm, won Best of Show - Best Custom Home honors for a home on Paulson Rd. in Poulsbo. It also snagged a special judge’s award for best hospitality in that class.
   Mackall, of N.W. Renovations, and his partner Warner, earned the Best of Show Award in the Remodeled Homes category for a remodel on Sportsman Club Rd. on Bainbridge Island. This is also the second win in that category for the Kingston-based remodelers.
   N.W. Renovations also took home the prestigious Built Green Award, which honors the builder best implementing the Built Green Program — a nationwide p

Best of Show, Remodeled Homes N.W. Renovations — Sportsman Club Rd., Bainbridge Island

rogram of the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB). Built Green, which promotes sustainable construction methods and building practices as well as the use of recycled building materials, was originally developed by the Kitsap HBA as “Build a Better Kitsap” before being adopted for national use by the NAHB.
   This year’s Parade of Homes event took place the weekend of Aug 7 and 8, and the awards banquet was held Aug. 20 at the Clearwater Casino Convention Center. Larry Elfendahl of Washington Federal Savings in Poulsbo served as Master of ceremonies for the evening and was

Award of Excellence, Custom Homes Under $350,000 - JAFA Enterprises Shadow Glan, Silverdale

in charge of handing out the awards to the winners.
   All of the Parade judges are industry professionals from outside Kitsap County to ensure there is no conflict of interest in the voting.
   Jeff Hansell of Hansell Mitzel Homes in Burlington and Pat McBride of GMS Architectural Group in Bellevue judged the new, for sale homes. The custom and remodeled homes were judged by Clive Ebsen, CGR, of Rainier Construction & Remodeling in Tacoma, Charlie Brown, of Sears Contract Services in Bellevue, and Donna Bade-Shirley, CGR, CAPS, of Shirley Contracting in Issaquah.

Award of Excellence - For Sale Homes $400,000 to $600,000 Keating Homes Summerwood, Bainbridge Island

   Other winners include JAFA Enterprises, who was recognized with the Award of Excellence for building the Best Custom Home under $350,000 — a home on Shadow Glen in Silverdale — and with a special judge’s award for the most creative use of window treatments in that same home.
   The Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority (KCCHA) won Award of Excellence honors for the best For Sale Home under $350,000 for a home at the Fort Ward Parade Grounds on Bainbridge Island. This is also the second time the KCCHA has won honors in

Award of Excellence - For Sale Homes Under $350,000 Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority Fort Ward Parade Grounds, Bainbridge Island

that category for a home in that same project.
   Keating Homes walked away with the Award of Excellence in the $400,000 to $600,000 category for its home at Summerwood on Bainbridge Island.
   The judges also bestowed a number of special awards. Those included honors to S.P Poulsbo, GP1, for best use of a difficult site, at a home at Poulsbo Place, and another recognizing the best landscaping, which was presented to Eagle Homes for a house on Hawkstone Lane at McCormick Woods in Port Orchard.