Office lighting recommendations?
pasbesoin: I have an incandescent torchiere, in which I've now placed a full-spectrum compact fluorescent bulb.  Works just fine, and adjusting color is just a matter of picking out a different bulb.  My recommendation for cheap, indirect lighting.  And yes, indirect lighting is great, in my opinion.There are (dedicated) fluorescent torchiere lamps.  I have a couple from GE, both dim-able.  One has worked for many years like a champ.  The newer GE one had the balast (non-replaceable -- at least without hassle) progressively fail over the course of a year or two -- slower and slower startup times; now completely dead.  A third such torchiere -- same bulb, also dim-able -- a floor model I picked up more recently that is made by another manufacturer, is also dead.  So, my recommendation is to stay away from this design.P.S.  If one lamp doesn't seem to produce as much light as the halogen torchiere, try two lamps.  The incandescent type are quite cheap, and with compact fluorescent bulbs (maybe LED bulbs, someday), your energy use should still be pretty low.