From Left to Right: Bill Darcy, NKBA, CEO, Sarah Robertson, AKBD and Suzie Williford, NKBA, EVP & CSO.


The association highlights the designers who are in the running for the top K&B awards.

NKBA named the finalists for its 2024 Professional Design Competition, with the winners to be announced at the Design Awards and KBIS Opening Night Party on Monday, Feb. 26 in Las Vegas. The annual event, held in the larger Lafite Ballroom at Wynn Las Vegas, will also highlight NKBA’s Hall of Fame Award and Chairman’s Award as well as announce the winners of the Innovative Showroom Award and Student Design Competition.

The finalists for NKBA’s 2024 Professional Design Awards are:

For Large Kitchen Over 300 Square Feet

  • James E. Howard, Glen Alspaugh Co LLP, St. Louis, MO
  • Bahar Zaeem with co-designer Shima Radfar,  RZ Interiors, Toronto, ON
  • Hannah Hacker, CMKBD, Adapt Interior Design, Beaverton, OR

For Small Kitchen under 300 sq ft

  • Jerel Lake, Lakehaus Designs, Atlanta, GA
  • Karen Swanson, New England Design Works, Manchester, MA
  • Angel Yalda, Two Tone Interiors, Bradford, ON

For Specialty Kitchens

  • Cindy Steele, Fleur de Lis Designs, Los Gatos, CA
  • Kimberly Kerl, Kustom Home Design, Greer, SC
  • Jeffrey Florentine, JSF Design Inc., Scottsdale, AZ

For Primary Bath 

  • Trish Knight, Knight Varga Interiors, Vancouver, BC
  • Kathleen Donohue, CMKBD, Neil Kelly Co., Bend, OR
  • Melissa Sakell, CKBD, Anthony Wilder Design/Build, Inc., Cabin John, MD

For Secondary Bath

  • Jennifer Hale, Interiors for Modern Living, Palo Alto, CA
  • Jaque Bethke, Jaque Bethke Design, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Heather Radliff, Christopher’s Kitchen and Bath, Englewood, CO

For Powder Room 

  • Gina Bauerle, D’Amore Interiors, Denver, CO
  • Trish Knight, Knight Varga Interiors, Vancouver, BC
  • Jennifer Hale, Interiors for Modern Living, Palo Alto, CA

To buy tickets to the NKBA Design Awards and Opening Night Party, go here >>

The NKBA Design Awards will again be hosted by NKBA’s Bill Darcy, CEO, and Suzie Williford, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer.  The Awards ceremony will be immediately followed by the KBIS Opening Party, with both events taking place in the larger Lafite Ballroom in Wynn Las Vegas. The move to the larger ballroom ensures seating for all ticketed guests, who come to celebrate the Award winners and kick off the start of KBIS, the world’s most important kitchen and bath trade show.

KBIS is scheduled to take place from Feb. 27 – 29, 2024 in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center(LVCC). The show will again co-locate with the International Builders’ Show(IBS), owned by the National Association of Homebuilders(NAHB), to create Design & Construction Week(DCW). Attendees who register for KBIS or IBS have access to both shows, which will occupy the West, North, Center and South Halls of LVCC.

To register for KBIS 2024, go here. 

For more information on Design & Construction Week, go here.