Readers’ Favorites Super Stars 2025

The "Readers’ Favorites Super Stars 2025" recognizes the top home service providers and stores in the Richmond region, as compiled by R•Home magazine. This annual directory highlights businesses and individuals who have consistently been voted as outstanding in their respective categories over the past 16 years of the survey. These Super Stars are celebrated for their excellence and reliability in ensuring successful home-related projects, positioning them as some of the best in the industry. To qualify as a Super Star, a business must have been voted an R•Home Readers’ Favorite in a specific category at least six times within the 16-year duration of the survey. The businesses are presented in alphabetical order, and only categories with winning entries are included. The categories have been standardized to account for variations in wording over the survey's history, ensuring consistency in recognition. Five businesses, referred to as the "Sweet 16," have achieved the notable distinction of being winners in all 16 R•Home Readers’ Favorites surveys. These include Art to Di For (Decorative Painter), Costen Floors (Flooring Store, Flooring Refinisher), The Great Big Greenhouse & Nursery (Greenhouse/Plant Shop), Morris Tile Distributors Inc. (Tile Store), and U-Fab (Fabric and Wallpaper Store). Their consistent recognition underscores their sustained quality and customer satisfaction over nearly two decades. The directory is organized into several key areas, beginning with "BUILDING & MATERIALS." This section features Appliance Retailers (such as Appliance Contract Sales, Appliances on Lakeside, and Ferguson Bath Kitchen & Lighting Gallery), Architectural Salvage providers (like Caravati’s Inc. and Governor’s Antiques and Architectural Materials), and Countertop specialists (including Artistic Stone Design and Brazilian Best Granite). Flooring services are well-represented with Flooring Refinishers (Builder Décor, Costen Floors) and Flooring Stores (Costen Floors, Floor & Décor). Hardware (Pleasants Hardware), Paint (Sherwin-Williams, Spectrum Paint), Tile (Best Tile, Morris Tile Distributors Inc.), and Doors, Windows and Glass (Ace Glass Inc., Custom View Windows & Doors) also feature prominent Super Stars. The "FURNITURE" category encompasses Consignment Furniture (Izzie’s, Revival Consignment), Custom Furniture Makers (Harrison Higgins Inc.), Furniture Repair/Refinishing (Renew Home Furnishings), Modern Furniture Stores (LaDIFF), Traditional Furniture Stores (Ethan Allen, Virginia Wayside Furniture), Upholstery Services (Renew Home Furnishings, U-Fab), and Vintage Midcentury Furniture Shops (Epoch Furnishings, Verve Home Furnishings). "HOME DECOR" includes Antique and Vintage Shops (Class + Trash, Gates Antiques Ltd.), Art Galleries (Crossroads Art Center, Quirk Gallery), Bed Linens (Frâiche on the Avenues, Yves Delorme), Carpets and Area Rugs (Capel Rugs Richmond, Green Front Furniture), Fabric and Wallpaper Stores (Artéé Fabrics & Home, U-Fab), Frame Shops (Frame of Mind, Rick’s Custom Frame and Gallery), Home Accessories (Revival Consignment), Light Fixtures and Lamps (Ferguson Bath Kitchen & Lighting Gallery, Shades of Light), and Window Treatment Fabricators (LHS Designs LLC, U-Fab). The "MOVING, CLEANING & ORGANIZING" section covers Closet Designers/Installers (Closet Factory, Closets of Virginia), Estate Sale Specialists/Auction Houses (Beck Estates, Gates Estates LLC), Home Organizers (Minima Organizing & Redesign), House Cleaning Services (The Maids, Molly Maid), Movers (Hilldrup Moving & Storage, Moxie Movers Inc.), and Real Estate Agents (Cabell Childress Group). "OUTDOOR" services feature Deck Builders (HomeLink Outdoor Dreams), Fence Builders (Cartwright Landscaping, Hurricane Fence Company), Garden Tools and Supplies providers (The Great Big Greenhouse & Nursery, Sneed’s Nursery & Garden Center), Greenhouse/Plant Shops (The Great Big Greenhouse & Nursery, Strange’s Florists & Garden Center), Gutter Cleaning (Mind in the Gutter), Hardscape Designers and Installers (HomeLink Outdoor Dreams), Ironworks for Residential Projects (Phoenix Handcraft, Small Axe Forge), Landscape Designers (Cartwright Landscaping, Cross Creek Nursery & Landscaping), Landscape or Lawn Maintenance (Cartwright Landscaping, Virginia Green Lawn Care Co.), Masons (Craddock Masonry Inc., Outdoor Dreams), Outdoor Furniture retailers (Bon Air Hearth, Porch and Patio, LaDIFF), Outdoor Lighting Designers/Installers (Inaray Design Group, Outdoor Dreams), Swimming Pool Designers and Installers (Outdoor Dreams, Pla-Mor Pools), Tree Care specialists (Arbogast Tree & Stump, Arborscapes LLC), and Window Washers (Spotless Window Cleaning Co.). Finally, "SERVICES & REPAIRS" highlights Air Conditioning/Heating Contractors (James River Heating & Air Conditioning, Woodfin), Appliance Repair Services (Appliances on Lakeside, Mr. Appliance), Architects for Single-family Homes (3North, Dan Ensminger/Ensminger Architecture), Basement Waterproofing (B-Dry Waterproofing and Foundation Repair, JES Foundation Repair), Carpenters or Handymen (HomeMasons Inc., Jacob’s Ladder Construction), Carpet and Rug Cleaning services (Chem-Dry Carpet Cleaning, Hadeed-Mercer Rug Cleaning Inc.), Chimney Sweeps/Repair (Chimney Saver Solutions, Cougot’s Chimney Service), Custom Cabinet Makers (Chesapeake Bay Cabinet Co., Custom Kitchens Inc.), Decorative Painters (Art to Di For, H.J. Holtz & Son), Electricians (Davis & Green Services, SmartWire 360), Flooring Installers (Builder Décor, Costen Floors), General Contractors (HomeLink, Lane Homes & Remodeling), Home Media Sales/Installation (Inaray Design Group, LiveWire Sound & Image Design), House Painters (89-Paint, H.J. Holtz & Son), Interior Designers/Decorators (Kathy Corbet Interiors), Kitchen & Bath Designers (Custom Kitchens Inc.), Lamp and Light Fixture Repair (Lamp Emporium, Shades of Light), Pest Control Services (Dodson Pest Control, Loyal Termite and Pest Control Co.), Plumbers (Carroll Plumbing & Heating Inc., Robinson’s Plumbing Service), Roofers (Hardesty Roofing, Nathan’s Roofing, Windows & Siding), and Wallpaper Installers (Barden’s Decorating Inc., H.J. Holtz & Son). 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