2020 LightHouse Awards Recipients Announced

Minto Communities

Minto Communities

Village Park Homes

Logan Homes SC, LLC

Stanley Martin Homes

Southern Coastal Homes

Built Right Homes, LLC

Artisan Custom Homes, LLC

Compass Custom Homes

Full Circle Development

Palatial Homes Design, LLC

Boshaw Residential, LLC

RCH Construction, Inc.

Simpson Construction LLC

TDC Builders

Roberts Construction Company

RCH Construction, Inc

Roberts Construction Company

Palatial Homes Design, LLC

RCH Construction, Inc.

Best Exterior

FULL REMODEL

Category 2: Roberts Construction Company

NEW HOMES

Category 1: Minto Communities
Category 2: Minto Communities
Category 3: Logan Homes SC, LLC
Category 4: Logan Homes SC, LLC
Category 5: Allen Patterson Residential
Category 6: Southern Coastal Homes
Category 7: Built Right Homes, LLC
Category 8: Artisan Custom Homes
Category 9: Compass Custom Homes
Category 10: Full Circle Development
Category 11: Palatial Homes Design
Category 12: Boshaw Residential, LLC
Category 13: Ellis Construction
Category 14: Simpson Construction LLC

Best Kitchen

FULL REMODEL

Category 1: TDC Builders
Category 2: Palatial Homes Design, LLC
Category 3: RCH Construction, Inc.
Category 4: Roberts Construction Company

NEW HOMES

Category 1: Minto Communities
Category 2: Minto Communities
Category 3: Village Park Homes
Category 4: Logan Homes SC, LLC
Category 5: Stanley Martin Homes
Category 6: Allen Patterson Residential
Category 7: Reclamation By Design, Ltd.
Category 8: Full Circle Development
Category 9: Compass Custom Homes
Category 10: Full Circle Development
Category 11: AR Homes
Category 12: Southern Coastal Homes
Category 13: RCH Construction, Inc.
Category 14: Simpson Construction LLC

Best Bath

FULL REMODEL

Category 1: RCH Construction, Inc.
Category 2: Palatial Homes Design, LLC
Category 3: Palatial Homes Design, LLC
Category 4: Roberts Construction Company

NEW HOMES

Category 1: Minto Communities
Category 2: Village Park Homes
Category 3: Village Park Homes
Category 4: Village Park Homes
Category 5: Stanley Martin Homes
Category 6: Southern Coastal Homes
Category 7: Allen Patterson Residential
Category 8: Artisan Custom Homes, LLC
Category 9: Full Circle Development
Category 10: Front Light Building Co.
Category 11: Palatial Homes Design, LLC
Category 12: Boshaw Residential, LLC
Category 13: Wickre & Co Custom Homebuilders
Category 14: Simpson Construction LLC

Design

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Category 1: Court Atkins Group
Category 2: Pearce Scott Architects, Inc.
Category 3: Court Atkins Group
Category 4: Court Atkins Group Category 5: Court Atkins Group

INTERIOR DESIGN

Category 1: Kelly Caron Designs, ASID
Category 2: Kelly Caron Designs, ASID
Category 3: Kelly Caron Designs, ASID

Light Commercial

Category 1: Reclamation By Design, Ltd. Element Construction
Category 2: Fraser Construction Company

About the Hilton Head Area Home Builders Association:

Chartered in 1965 under the leadership of the late Joseph Fraser, Jr., the Hilton Head Area Home Builders Association is a not-for-profit professional trade association of business professionals that represent, promote and support excellence in the home building industry through education, community service and environmental stewardship. The organization is made up of nearly 500 member companies, representing residential and light commercial builders, subcontractors, suppliers and many other service professionals to the building industry throughout Beaufort, Jasper, and Hampton Counties. The association also administers the Hilton Head Home Builders Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization formed to support and raise funds for deserving local high school graduates seeking further educational or technical advancement.

The Hilton Head Area Home Builders Association is affiliated with the Home Builders Association of South Carolina and the National Association of Home Builders.

Hilton Head Island, November 6, 2020 – Over 100 building industry professionals attended the 21st Annual LightHouse Awards gala to learn who judges selected as the Lowcountry’s most talented builders and designers. The awards gala, which is presented by the Hilton Head Area Home Builders Association with the support of Title Sponsor BB&T Home Mortgage now Truist, took place Friday evening at the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head Island.

“The LightHouse Awards is truly like the Academy Awards for our local building industry. It gives builders and designers the opportunity to be recognized for the hard work, talent and vision they put forward in building some of the most remarkable homes found in this area and beyond,” stated Dan Monroe, chairman of the LightHouse Awards program since its inception. Monroe added, “We are so blessed as a community to have such imaginative architects, talented interior designers, quality builders and exceptional trades craftsman whose hands touch each project in the Lowcountry.”

Best Overall New Home Category 10 Winner – Full Circle Development

First held twenty years ago in 1999, the LightHouse Awards are presented annually to qualifi ed members of the Hilton Head Area Home Builders Association for the demonstration of quality craftsmanship and design excellence in the construction of homes throughout the Lowcountry.

21 builders, including remodelers, custom, semi-custom, and light commercial building companies, submitted 44 home entries. In addition, 4 fi rms submitted 14 interior and architectural design projects for a total of 62 qualifying projects on our physical judging event for 2020.

We honor each participant for being part of this distinguished group of area building professionals. The construction cost of this year’s remodeled or newly built home entries ranged from $100,000 to nearly $4 million. Each award was subdivided into categories based on project cost of construction and similar square footage.

Six judges were welcomed to Hilton Head Island in mid-September to physically judge the construction quality of each project entered; a practice rarely seen in this digital age. The 2020 LightHouse Awards judging panel included builders, remodelers, architects and other industry professionals from North Carolina, and all over South Carolina. Split into four teams, the judges spent two and a half days visiting entries from Hilton Head Island to Distant Island to Ridgeland. In many instances, the separation between runner-up and winner was a fraction of a point.

Master of Ceremony, Monty Jett announced award winners as attendees followed along to a visual presentation of entry homes and features. Associate members of the Home Builders Association, including building industry professionals, subcontractors and suppliers, who participated in the design and construction of each of the competing new and remodeled homes, were also recognized at the gala. Winners received marble obelisk awards representing lighthouses.

“For many of these builders, after spending 12 to 15 months or longer working on a project, where even the smallest detail could impact the overall outcome, the LightHouse Awards symbolize one of the highest career honors, and is a true testament to their vision and talent,” stated Dan Monroe.

Led by Monroe, the 2020 LightHouse Awards Committee included Chris Cleland, Cleland Site Prep; Courtney Jansen, Distinctive Granite and Marble; Deborah Karambelas, Karambelas Enterprises; Bryan Mudrak, More Space Place; Deb Monroe, LowCountry Home Magazine; Brittani Anderson, J Banks Design; Lisa Henry, BB&T Home Mortgage, Now Truist; Michal Anderson, Cambria; Jay Fraser, Fraser Construction; Rob Kaufman, Kaufman Photography; Will McKown, AGM Imports and Majka Mochnac, Hilton Head Monthly.

In addition to Title Sponsor BB&T Home Mortgage now Truist, other sponsors included Cleland Site Prep, Distinctive Granite and Marble, Hilton Head, Bluff ton & Beaufort Glidden, More Space Place, Hilton Head Monthly, LowCountry Home Magazine, Kaufman Photography, Palmetto Electric Cooperative, Inc., and Peacock Automotive. Special thanks also went to Kaufman Photography, Rob Kaufman, Karambelas Enterprises, Show Services, PSAV, Monty Jett, Red Door Design & Publishing, Sonesta Resort & Spa Hilton Head, Island Imagery, Tristyn Sheaff er, Kelli Corn, Carol Kavanaugh-Arrington, Click Event Production; Theresa Anthony, Mike Garza, Alex Perri and Amazing and Good Too.