The 16th Annual Showroom of the Year winners were presented with their awards at Lightovation on Thursday, June 19. The award presentation was produced by Lightovation host Dallas Market Center and official media sponsor Linda Longo to honor lighting retailers from throughout North America, with one Showroom of the Year winner in each of three dollar-volume categories, along with three specialty awards.
From entries and nominations received from January 2025 through March 2025, the winners were chosen from five finalists in each dollar-volume category: Revenue Under $2 Million, Revenue $2 Million to $5 Million, and Revenue $5 Million and Over. All Showroom of the Year finalists were also eligible for three specialty awards: Outstanding Merchandising Display, Exceptional Community Involvement, and the newly added honor Showroom of the Future, which recognizes innovative uses of technology and digital marketing.
Winners of the 16th Annual Showroom of the Year Awards are:
- Revenue Under $2 Million: Ultra Design Center, Denver, CO
- Revenue $2 Million to $5 Million: EL Design, Elk Grove Village, IL
- Revenue $5 Million and Over: Lighting Design, Draper, UT
- Outstanding Merchandising Display: Lightology, Chicago, IL
- Exceptional Community Involvement: Just Lights Inc., Nashua, NH
- Showroom of the Future: Dominion Lighting, Arlington, VA
Judging this year’s competition was an esteemed panel of industry professionals: Courtney Garrigan, president and Co-founder of Coco & Dash; Nancy Leffler Mikulich, founder and principal designer of Oasis Home by NLM Design Interiors; and Warren Shoulberg, award-winning home furnishings business journalist and contributing editor.
Nominations and entries for the 2026 Showroom of the Year Awards, which are open to all independent lighting retailers in North America and can be submitted by anyone in the industry, will be accepted starting in December 2025 ahead of the January 10-13 edition of Lightovation. That edition of the show will have a new Saturday-to-Tuesday date pattern overlapping with the co-located January 7-13 Total Home Gift Market at Dallas Market Center.
For more information, visit https://www.dallasmarketcenter.com/upcoming-markets/lightovation-dallas-international-lighting-show/.
