[jyl]

That's my son.

I should explain about the local lighting situation.

In Portland, it is common to have 30 days straight of rain and grey cloudy skies. It can be broad daytime, your room can have big south-facing windows like shown, and it will still be gloomy and dark from sunup to sundown. After a few years living here, I realized that I need large amounts of artificial "daylight" to avoid falling into a dull slump for the winter. At my previous job, I put a 100 w equivalent daylight CFL bulb over each of my six monitors so I could have 600 w of "daylight" for 10 hours a day.

Also, my eyesight is getting poor, and I find I need really bright light to read fine print. I'm actually going to be setting up eight 27" monitors so that each application can have a large font for the easiest possible viewing. But printed material can't be zoomed in . . .

That is why I want what seem like ridiculous amounts of "daylight" light, even in a room that I expect to occupy only during the daytime.

The existing ceiling fixture will indeed cast bad shadows. So I will try to figure out how to install some "wall washers" to warm the 6000 K main lights and soften the shadows, despite this being a low-budget rental space.

The space is a conference room and an office room, separated by a wall and doorway. I think the conference room will have normal human-level lighting, and the office will have the operating room level of 6000 K light that I like.