Best in American Living Awards

Mark & Tiffany Candelaria traveled to Orlando last week to attend the 2026 NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS) and to receive a few awards at the Best In American Living Awards ceremony!

This is the largest Builders’ Show with over 81k building professionals and nearly 2k exhibitors. Over the three days we had the chance to visit many of the companies booth’s we currently work with and learn about many new companies and products as well!

The culminating event was the BALA Awards celebrating the best in multi-family and custom home building and design across North America. Candelaria Design took home Gold for Best Primary Suite and Silver for two homes in the Best Custom Home 10,000+ sf categories! It was a great night networking with other top builders and architects and showing off our team’s hard work - congrats to all!

Watch our videos on Instagram & facebook @candelariadesign to see the show and awards ceremony.

Modern Luxury Interiors Design 9 Awards

Candelaria Design received 3 awards at the third annual Design 9 Awards last night hosted by Modern Luxury Interiors! Our winning projects were Best Outdoor Space, Best Traditional Home and Best Bathroom and they are featured in the Nov/Dec issue below.

Best Outdoor Space

Best Traditional Home

NAHB International Builders Show & 3 BALA Awards

Mark spent a few days in Las Vegas last week to attend the 2025 NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS) and to receive a few awards at the Best In American Living Awards ceremony!

This year was the largest Builders’ Show in 17 years, with over 81k building professionals and 1.8k exhibitors. The Convention Center spans 2,500,000 sqft. and Mark racked up over 40,000 steps in three days! Mark would like to send a special thank you to Tim Walker of Marvin Windows for providing him a ticket to the convention. 

The culminating event was the BALA Awards celebrating the best in home building and design across North America. Candelaria Design took home Gold for Best Specialty Room and Best Primary Suite and Silver for Best Custom Home 7,000-10,000 sqft!! Such a fun night networking with other top architects and showing off our team’s hard work!

Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale ~ Design 9 Issue

We have been names one of nine winners in the second annual Design 9 Awards by Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale Magazine! Our Santa Barbara inspired home set on 5 acres in Paradise Valley won for Best Outdoor Living and features a pool, spa, animal barn, pond, putting green, garden, covered patios and more. Click below to view the digital issue.

Iconic Design Awards 2024

Iconic Life Magazine's 2nd Annual Iconic Design Awards Ceremony took place last weekend at Scottsdale Center for the Arts SMOCA. Both of our submissions won in the Best Transitional Custom Home over 7,500 sf category!

The Iconic award went to our 19,000sf modern Italian Villa in the heart of Paradise Valley. The Gold Award went to our Santa Barbara/Spanish Colonial Revival style ranch home set on 5 acres, also in the heart of Paradise Valley.

Our projects also won Silver in On the Boards more than 7,500sf for a Kitchen design and the Iconic Award for Best Dining Room for our Joshua Tree Spec home in PV.