Last night we completed our first ever Homies Awards, celebrating the best in home blogging in 2008, and it's my pleasure today to announce five six winners.
It was an impromptu, get the ball rolling kind of affair this year that was meant in the best of spirits to direct attention at the Home Blog niche (because no awards ceremonies do), to award a bit of money ($100) and share as much link love as possible from our sites to others (some of which are bigger than us, some of which are smaller).
I firmly believe that the web works best when there's mutual cooperation, and we've certainly benefited from the help of others...
This year we received about 200 amazing nominations across five categories that showed the richness of the home niche (home technology is still woefully underserved). Some of the winners were surprising and some were expected, but all the races were exciting showed reader's fervor for their favorite sites. Check out the winners!
Congratulations to all, and here's a ton of link love comin' at you:
Best Home Decor: Design*Sponge
Runner up: Door Sixteen
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Best Home Cooking: Vegan Explosion
Runner up: Smitten Kitchen
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Best Children's Design: Inhabitots
Runner up: Oh C'Chou
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Best Green Home Design: Green Goody
Runner up: Inhabitat
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Best Home Tech: Engadget & Gizmodo (A Tie!)
Congratulations to all of the well-deserved winners!
view Anna at D16's profile
Congratulations! Well deserved. love everyone of the winning blogs!
view Mochatini's profile
Congratulations to all! :)
view decor8Holly's profile
I'm thrilled to see a vegan cooking blog won-how exciting!
Congratulations to everyone!
view Rachel@oneprettything.com's profile
the winners are all of us whom have never seen some of these blogs...new daily addiction. ha ha. no really.
view thedirtyshow's profile
Happy for all the winners!
I am especially excited to see a VEGAN blog take the blue ribbon!!!
Yes, yes, yes --- this is how it all vegan... :)
view newyearishere's profile
**Vegans** Yes!!!
AT should write more vegan posts, or find a strictly vegan blogger (for food, and/or home decor)!!
It is all about compassionate living.
Transfer **Veganism** over to design please!!!
view ilovebc's profile
Double yays for Door Sixteen and veganism, baby.
view holland's profile
Yeah! A vegan blog won!! Vegans rock the world!!
Yes please. I agree. Lets see vegan home decor posts on AT main!!
view 2009sunshine's profile
Congrats to all the winners! Our Google Reader runneth over.
view ThisYoungHouse's profile
Congrats Inhabitots and all other nominated in the awards, I read your blogs daily.
Mandi
babyology.com.au
view Babyology's profile
Congrats to all the winners, the finalists and to all the wonderful blogs nominated. It was a treat visting them all.
view midcenturyjo's profile