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"You think moths are the only ones attracted by light ? Well, customers are, too," says Designer Mendell Broyles, who developed a dramatic new lighting system for the Pine Terrace Hardware store in Muncie, Indiana. This is an idea that is equally adaptable to any lumber dealer's showroom. "Light is appealing to a prospective customer. You can never have too much of it," says Broyles. With this in mind he installed 40 fluorescent units in the 70x90-foot building.

By using 4x8-foot fir plyu'ood panels to house three-bar 40-watt fluorescent lights, Broyles suspended the panels from a steel deck room. The panels were supported bv steel trusses on beams. But the dramatic impact of the lighting system comes from the panels painted bone white contrasted against a black ceiling. It catches the eye of passing foot traffic, and cars on the highway can see the efiect through eight full-length windows in the store front.

Broyles figures fir plywood was the best material to use for the lighting system. "It could be suspended from the ceiling without any special reinforcements and was very inexpensive. Of all materials available, fir plywood could be adapted to the puipose the easiest," Broyles said. Said Owner Edwin Danner, "The whole system has been a tremendous success."