We are excited to announce our winners from our contractor blog contest. After much deliberating we have picked our top blog posts.

The Grand prize of $250 Gift Card to Home Depot goes to … (drum roll) ...  Tony Parkins for his post: To Reface or Not to Reface your Kitchen Cabinets.

Tony’s post about when to reface cabinets was easy to read because of a strong structure and well-crafted sentences, easy to understand from an uneducated homeowner stand point, and contained quality pictures to make his points stand out.  He covers both sides of the topic with plenty of real examples and leaves the reader informed and confident that Tony is an expert on cabinets.  Tony does not sell in his company directly in the post and only leaves the readers with a tiny link to his website at the bottom.  We congratulate Tony for his great post and encourage everyone to check it out as an excellent example.

Our second prize of $100 Gift Card to Dicks Sporting Goods goes to … Shelly Browne for her post: Water Damage Is Not For Wimps.

Shelly’s post about water damage and the recent natural disaster in Atlanta was informative as well as demonstrated her expertise on the subject.  Her personal touch on this tragic situation keeps her readers engaged as well as informed throughout. This is a great example of how to create a narrative filled with useful information. We congratulate Shelly for her thoughtful post!

Our third prize winner of $50 ConstructionDeal.com credit goes to…Rodney Collins for his post: When designing a home in Little Rock, Arkansas, perhaps select local Ozark stone.

Rodney’s post about is both locally relevant as well as translatable to any national reader looking to learn more about the uses of stone in the home. He ties his picture into his post’s content and maintains a strong structure throughout the post. His expertise on that material and for overall design is evident and is presented in a friendly manner. We congratulate Rodney for his well designed post!

And now our 20 runner’s up (in alphabetical order) who will receive 1 year’s subscription to BUILDERnews Magazine!

1. Cheyne Brokate’s Brokate Janitorial is Music to Construction Company’s Ears!
   
2. Nathaniel Bruno’s The Dangers of Storage Units
   
3. Maria Luisa Castellanos’s If you own residential real estate in Florida, do you know why the insurance companies want to raise homeowner’s insurance premiums?
   
4. Adriana Cozma’s Granite Home Design – Affordable granite for your home
   
5. Erby Crofutt’s Is Your house leaking? Have you checked? You should!
   
6. Boyer Cross’s The Security Guard
   
7. Angelo Garcia III’s Is 1980 an Appropriate End Date for Asbestos Use?
   
8. William Graeber’s Painting: Choosing your colors and faux finishes
   
9. Jeremy Johnson’s Are all Home Inspectors “Pro’s"?
   
10. Beth Kangootui’s Goodbye Clutter, Goodbye Headache!
    
11. Cammi Klier’s A Case Study – Rain Screen
    
12. Doug Lesko’s A Remodel on a Tight Budget
    
13. Mike Leslie’s Energy Saving Solutions
    
14. Michael McCreary’s Save Big Bucks
    
15. T. Bradley Millner’s Natural Stone and Ranges of Color and Movement
    
16. Lisa Pool’s Finishing Your Home
    
17. Deanna Radaj’s Ode to the Commode
    
18. Dan Rowe’s Caution WET PAINT!
    
19. Syndi Sim’s Do You Know How to Market in Today’s Economy? – Business Development 101
    
20. Thomas Sperow’s Restoration Project

Thank you to everyone that participated – great job!  Be sure to check out the winning posts as well as the winners’ other posts. 

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