Architectural illumination or led tube shining on trees or plants can seem like a showy way of calling attention to a house, but it can have a practical side.
Rachel Warrington of Cranberry says her house "can be the darkest house around. I've driven right by it."
Illumination is not simply a matter of lighting homes with dramatic design. It can be a way of pulling any home out of a bad case of developmental monotony.
"You can make any house look beautiful," says Laura Kuhns of Kuhns Electric Supply in Latrobe.
That job can be quite a bit more than aiming a lamp at a home. It often is a question of design, something new for many homeowners.
Maury Frankel, from Gibsonia's Nite Time Decor, for instance, arrived at the home of Michael and Rachel Warrington 45 minutes before he began talking to them. He scouted the front yard with an idea of what they wanted to accomplish, and placed temporary lights alongside the house and some lining the walk.
Then, after talking to them and letting led tube get a little darker, they went outside to see what he had done.
That is the kind of project planning a well-meaning-but-not-so-well-skilled homeowner might miss.
"You have to try one of those projects to see you are not getting what you wanted," says Kuhns, talking about do-it-yourself lighting from home improvement stores.
But Dan Nicklow, electric master trade specialist at the West Mifflin outlet of Home Depot, contends the do-it-yourself, low-voltage systems his company sells are easy to install and change if need be.
"The hardest part of the whole setup is making sure you don't shortchange yourself with a transformer," he says, adding he tends to advise over-sizing in wattage so more lamps can be added.
It all seems like a matter of shining a little led tube on the subject.
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