Renovation contest entry deadline extended

Technology makes our lives easier — most of the time. Issues with the online entry form for the 2017-18 Renovation Inspiration Contest have prompted us to extend the entry deadline to March 9.

The contest, which is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Design Center Pittsburgh, honors well-done renovations of houses and commercial buildings in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties.

Prizes include tickets to city house tours, free design consults with an architect or designer affiliated with Design Center Pittsburgh and seeing your project featured on the cover of the PG Sunday Home & Garden and Real Estate section.

Winners and runners-up are chosen in four categories:

• Small residential — renovation of the exterior or one or more rooms of a house at least 50 years old. Projects must cost $50,000 or less.

• Large residential — renovation of the exterior or one or more rooms of a house at least 50 years old. Projects cost more than $50,000.

• Younger residential — renovations of the exterior or one or more rooms of a house 25-50 years old. No limit on cost of project.

• Commercial — renovation of a residential or commercial building for commercial use. No limit on cost of project.

Enter now at http://biz.postgazette.com/renovationcontest/. If that doesn’t work, email your name, address and contact information along with your essay and up to 10 images to kkirkland@post- gazette.com. If you have already entered, please email to be sure it was received.

Lake Fong/Post-Gazette Michael and Helen Trask and her mother, Mitzi Smetters, were winners in the large residential category of the 2016-17 Renovation Inspiration Contest for their multigenerational rehab of a century-old house in Crafton.