Home Puts Spotlight on Stage Lighting
By Steve Castle
These homeowners worked with a CE pro to highlight their art and architecture with lighting, without singing the blues.

Some people have collections because they’re fans or aficionados. But only a select few own collections because they’re insiders. Their possessions are infused with riveting stories and rich experiences.

The owner of this coastal South Carolina home collects photographs of blues artists. There are some famous ones, like B.B. King and Ray Charles. And some not-so-famous ones. “He has one-of-a kind photos of the greats and the great unknowns who influenced everyone,” says Scott Varn of home systems installer Harmony Interiors, based in Asheville, N.C. “He realized the value of good lighting to highlight his blues photography collection and the architecture of the house.”




Harmony Interiors picked the light fixtures, located them, and determined how they were going to be controlled. About 100 lighting loads are in the house, with each lamp individually numbered—and often individually controlled. “With this much lighting design, there needs to be a lot of loads, because a lot of individual lights need to be controlled on their own,” says Varn.

A Control4 home and lighting control system handled that task, allowing Harmony to program lighting scenes to create a variety of stunning effects such as that from the gridwork ceiling over the living room—and, of course, to highlight the prominent blues photography throughout.

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