I purchased and gave my customer service reps AVs for Customer Service week last year. A few took them home but most left at work. To my surprise they have done well and bloom well! The local DMV had a lot of them for years which gave me the idea. They only have the overhead lighting and no lights on the weekend. I have become the plant doc for my two offices. Over watering is the most common problem. Two employees were trying to get them to bloom faster so they used their desk lamp also which burned the leaves. I have 2 extra AVs on my desk now to see if they will like my office which has no natural light and get less light. We'll see what happens!

I am SOOOOO TKO that I bought 4 lights for the kitchen, when I only need and will use 2. "Just in case, I change my mind" - was my reasoning. Geez. Glad I remembered to keep the receipts. I did the same thing with cabinet hardware. I have 2 full sets - only need ONE! I am worse that TKO - I am a KITCHEN FREAK! On a more positive note - the kitchen is painted and the cabinet installation starts tomorrow. My payoff in advance is that I am having the housekeepers come today to clean up - a girl has GOT to have SOME sanity - and what's that old saying? Cleanliness is next to Godliness? I am just too pooped to do it myself.

Assuming they hired a professional designer to do the model living room, what I see is that under the best of circumstances, that living room is awkwardly set up. In the model room, there is space for three, maybe 4 people to sit. Only one seat directly faces the TV set. Look at the furniture in that room. One small sofa or loveseat. One armchair. One TV stand. One end table. One large coffee table that was chosen to fill up the empty space in the center of the room to make it look more furnished. Imagine that room without the coffee table and it starts to look a lot like the OP�s room. There are three lamps, one of which appears to block part of the TV. And then at least 4 plants, to make the room appear more furnished and welcoming. I think they did a wonderful job making that room look open and inviting, and hiding the more obvious flaws in the design of the room. The room�s layout simply doesn�t function well. Either you have the sofa on the wall in the model room, and then you have a hard time watching TV, or you put the sofa on the window wall so you can see the TV set, and then you lose the view out the windows and have an awkward layout. OP, it�s not you. It�s the room. Working with the furniture you have, the first thing I�d do is take out the two small chairs. They don�t work with the rest of the furniture. Then I�d try to put the sofa on the wall where it is in the model room, and buy a table top TV swivel stand so that you could easily watch TV from there. Move the blue chair to the same position as the woven chair in the model picture and place an end table between the sofa and the chair. Down the line, look for a coffee table similar to the one in the model picture�glass or Lucite to keep the space looking open, and slightly oversized to fill the space better. And maybe a smaller unit to hold the TV.

Fluorescent light comes in a broad range of color temperatures. If yours are making 'everything look terrible', just switch out the bulbs for a warmer color. Less than $3 each at a big box store. Cheap. Fast. You didn't say how big the room is nor how many bulbs you have. I'm assuming you have standard 4' units. And, yes, simple swapping out for LEDs would be good too (but more expensive, if cost is a concern).