Lighting contest winner likes LEDs
Lighting contest winner Marilyn Sterley's home at 624 8th St. N.E., East Wenatchee
It’s been looking a lot like Christmas at Marilyn Sterley’s house in East Wenatchee for quite some time now — and she’s done it with energy-saving LEDs.
Sterley, the winner by popular vote of the 2011 Wenatchee World holiday lighting contest, said she began replacing her incandescent light strings with light-emitting diode strings as soon as the new technology was introduced. Now all the light strings are LEDs. “They’re brighter and better,” she noted. LEDs use a quarter of the energy used by traditional holiday lighting and last up to 10 times longer.
Sterley said the dominant color in her decorating scheme is blue. The blue incandescent bulbs she used to use faded quickly and had to be replaced after one season. The blue LEDs hold their color and never seem to fade, she said.
While all of Sterley’s strings are LEDs, she has several lighted figures that use incandescent bulbs. She’ll replace those with LEDs once manufacturers make the switch, she said.
Learn more about the benefits of LED holiday lighting here.
