Adding authenticity to the home bar or recreation room, neon lighting is inexpensive for both acquisition and operation. Everyone remembers entering the dimly lit, smoke filled bar or tavern with lighted neon signs advertising the bar’s “special beers.” Neon lighting can add a “vintage” look or and authentic bar look when placed around the home recreation area. If the home owner desires a more “themed look,” neon signs of favorite sports teams, for example, provide the beginnings of “sports bar” atmosphere even in the home bar. LED lighting is more versatile and adds a more modern look to the ohm bar or recreation room. LEDs can vary in brightness and color and lend themselves to intricate animations and controls. This allows “generic” LED lighting, controlled by computer, to assume virtually any type of motif or mood or simply be a information terminal. Of course, some creativity is needed to use a LED lighting scene in a vintage themed establishment. The versatility of computer controlled LEDs, provide a customer with almost unlimited flexibility of design using lighting with a very low current draw and low electrical consumption.