Alabama Remodeling Excellence Awards People's Choice: How Voting Works & How to Win

What does the 1 Vote Per Calendar Day rule mean for the AREA round?

The People's Choice page of the Alabama Remodeling Excellence Awards states its main rule in a single heading, 1 Vote Per Calendar Day, and then adds that voters will have to enter an email address. Read together, those lines describe a ballot that repeats daily and ties each vote to an address. The welcome text frames the purpose: visitors get to vote for their favorite project in this year's AREA competition, which makes the round a public layer on top of a professional awards program.

A daily allowance rewards sustained attention rather than a single burst. A remodeling company whose project is entered cannot rely on a single afternoon of messages, because supporters may vote again on each later calendar day. How many days the round runs is not printed, so the sensible reading of the rule is only what the page says: a single vote per supporter per calendar day.

Who runs the Alabama Remodeling Excellence Awards, and since when?

The Alabama Remodeling Excellence Awards, known as AREA, began under the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders Remodelers, which founded the competition to bring greater recognition to Alabama's remodeling professionals. In 2008 that group passed the torch to the Home Builders Association of Alabama Remodelers, who now plan and organize it. The stated aim of the handover was to make the competition truly statewide.

The awards celebrate remodeling craftsmanship, innovation and attention to detail, and the competition is open to remodelers and contractors. The market field for this page reads Prattville and Montgomery, statewide, so the competition is framed as statewide even though the market label names Prattville and Montgomery. The ballot address sits on a launchpad6 host, and the page title still reads Alabama Remodeling Excellence Awards.

What dates and editions are confirmed?

Live ballots are confirmed for 2023 and 2026, and the 2008 handover marks the year the statewide structure began. For the 2026 competition the page prints entry deadlines: registration was due to the HBAA office by January 9, 2026, and entries were due by February 9, 2026. Those dates belong to the remodelers entering projects, not to the voters, and they come before the public round.

No later edition than 2026 is described in the available text, and the 2023 edition is confirmed by the awards site's own address. Both years sit on the same hosted ballot address family, which keeps the trail easy to follow for a supporter.

The opening and closing days of the People's Choice round are not published in the available text; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That gap is worth planning around, because a company promoting its entry needs to know how many daily votes its supporters can cast.

How does it sit beside other Alabama ballots?

Alabama's public votes on this site range from magazine polls to association awards. About Town's Best of Birmingham, Best Of Birmingham Home & Garden 2026 and Best of Marshall County 2026 are consumer-style polls, Alabama Music Awards covers music, and the Wiregrass calendar contest is a pet photo ballot. The closest cousin is AIA Birmingham People's Choice, another trade-linked public vote.

AREA stands out because the thing being voted on is a finished remodeling project, and the visitors are asked to pick a favorite project rather than rank restaurants, shops or musicians as the magazine polls do. The People's Choice round also sits inside a competition with its own entry deadlines, which means the public vote follows a professional entry process instead of an open nomination call. Best of Marshall County 2026 and the Wiregrass pet calendar show how varied Alabama's ballots are: Best of Marshall County rewards local favorites, another turns cat and dog photographs into a calendar, and AREA rewards craftsmanship.

That variety is useful for planning. A supporter of a remodeling project is solving a different problem from a supporter of a restaurant, because the audience is limited to people who have seen the finished work or who trust the company behind it. Readers can compare AIA Birmingham People's Choice, Best Of Birmingham Home and Garden 2026 and About Town's Best of Birmingham before deciding where to focus support.

How do remodelers gather votes for a project?

With a daily allowance, a remodeler's best asset is a client list. Past customers who loved a finished kitchen or bath can be asked to vote on each calendar day the round allows. The votes guide covers outreach methods, and the buy votes page explains the paid option in general terms.

The HBAA prints no statement on outside help in the available page text, so the awards page is the only authority on what counts. Before spending money on any paid route, a remodeler should read the legal position page and the awards page together, since the association's wording decides which votes stand.

Because the page prints a single vote per calendar day, a steady plan beats a single-day push. A company can post the round's address in a project gallery, mention it in a client newsletter and ask satisfied homeowners to vote on several different days, each time using the same simple instructions. Photographs of the finished remodel help, since the visitors are choosing a favorite project and a clear picture makes the choice easy. Keeping a short list of supporters who promised to vote also makes it easier to send a friendly reminder midway through the round, and a thank-you after it ends.