Awards! West Seattle’s Ventana Construction, Weitzel Construction

Those are the “before” and “after” photos from an Eastside project that won a REX (Remodeling Excellence) Award – presented by the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties – for West Seattle’s Weitzel Construction (WSB sponsor) this past weekend. As Dave Weitzel explains …

… there were 64 entrants in 19 categories from best Universal Design to Major Rebuild over $500,000. Our entry was in the Major Remodel $300,000 to $600,000 and won in its category against 6 other entrants. Also, all the people attending the event have the opportunity to view all the entrants before the program begins and vote for their favorite entrant, called the People’s Choice Award, and we also won in that category.

Weitzel Construction has won REX Awards before – see the list on their website. Also winning a REX Award — this time for Kitchen Remodeling — another West Seattle builder and WSB sponsor, Ventana Construction – here’s their winning project:

Anne Higuera from Ventana explains:

Each year, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties and its Remodelors Council honor the best in local remodeling with the REX awards. Projects are judged on aesthetics, special or unique design solutions, quality workmanship, use of appropriate building material, budgetary consideration, and challenges and obstacles. Ventana was honored in the REX category for kitchen remodeling in the $75,000-$125,000 range, a category with 6 entrants. The project was part of a larger remodel on a 1923 home in Fremont.

You can read more about Ventana’s winning project here. Meantime, the full list of awards isn’t on the builders’ group’s website yet, but we’ll add it here when it is.

17 Replies to "Awards! West Seattle's Ventana Construction, Weitzel Construction"

  • cjboffoli June 22, 2009 (7:06 pm)

    Wow! Fantastic re-design.

  • Admiral Lady June 22, 2009 (7:14 pm)

    What a transforamtion! I love it! Great job!

  • Sandra June 22, 2009 (7:32 pm)

    Excellent job, Ventana Construction! I’m happy to see a local business receiving such an award.

  • Ann Limbaugh June 22, 2009 (8:08 pm)

    Beautiful jobs by both Weitzel Construction and Ventana – I agree with Sandra, love to see West Seattle businesses getting well deserved kudos!

  • ptr June 22, 2009 (10:27 pm)

    Aaaaaawesome!! I want one!

  • Gerard June 22, 2009 (11:51 pm)

    Congrats Anne and Clarence! Great job! That is great news.

  • pickey June 23, 2009 (5:35 am)

    This is what good design is all about!!! There is a modern classic practicality and functionality to this house. Did i say enough? And simplicity!! I can just picture myself parking my car in the carport…..

  • Nulu June 23, 2009 (7:26 am)

    It appears that many of the comments on the Weitzel project compliment its design.
    I wonder who did the design work?

  • rnl June 23, 2009 (8:07 am)

    Hope to see this in Dwell Magazine one day!

  • swimcat June 23, 2009 (9:04 am)

    Both projects look beautiful- nice work!

  • DaveW June 23, 2009 (9:58 am)

    The design of the house was done by Coop-15, Lane William’s firm on Queen Anne. They have done a lot of great work and you can check them out at http://www.coop15.com

  • Kayle Shulenberger June 23, 2009 (10:37 am)

    Weitzel Construction is awesome! so professional!

  • Kayle Shulenberger June 23, 2009 (10:38 am)

    and oh yeah..Dave Weitzel is my husband!

  • sam June 23, 2009 (10:48 am)

    Dave W- thanks for that very important information- reading the article, it seemed like Weitzel designed the project.

    does anyone know if there was a designer for the Ventana kitchen remodel?

  • VentanaConstruction June 23, 2009 (11:33 am)

    Thanks for all of the nice comments!

    The architect who did the design work in the kitchen is Andy Salkin, of Salkin Architecture. 206-722-2773.

  • Mark W June 23, 2009 (10:46 pm)

    Way to go Dave! Thanks for your great work AND your great contributions to the Admiral Neighborhood. Weitzel Construction is a soon-to-be-announced sponsor of the Admiral Neighborhood Association summer concerts in the park series at Hiawatha Park! Thanks Dave!

    Mark

  • Mary Ann Heeren June 24, 2009 (8:38 pm)

    Congratulations, Dave! This remodel looks wonderful. You and your crew do great work and I’m glad you won an award again.
    Best wishes, Mary Ann & Larry

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