I have exactly the same setup as far as shelves go. I have catts and laelia's primarily and have no issues with growing either. (I also have phals, phaps, zygos and vandas - no, I can't make up my mind!) I have shelves spaced at 15, 18 and 23 inches to accomodate the wide variety of plants. On the 15/18 inch shelves, I run 4 40w t-12's - two 5k and two 'wide-spectrum' 3.5k's. Anyone who says you don't need the red lights to promote flowering has not done their homework. I ran 2-5ks and 2-6.5ks on the shelves first with no spikes/flowers. Since I switched to this mix, I have at least four plants in spike. On the 23 inch shelve, I run 3 sets of t12's. 3 wide spectrum and 3 5k's. I am trying one shelve with all 6.5k's just to see what will happen - but I am pretty sure I know already. The 'newer' lamps in the 6.5k range are true 'full spectrum' lights and should replace the mixed. I also have a 125w cfl over a number of plants too and I am very happy with that. Much more light from the same wattage, but not as large a coverage area. There is no 'perfect' setup, so much depends on your spaces, plants, available light, ect, that the 'perfect' setup for one person may not work at all for someone else. So to enhance light to your setup, you could: - Add some t12's to your existing ones or - Switch to t8's which put out about 20% more light or - Add/switch to CFL's. 65w CFL's are about the lowest you'd want to look at - simply not enough light with anything less and even the 65's are not powerful enough for large catts. In order to reach all the way down those tall babies, you may need to look at the newer 125 or even 200w CFL's. I have about 300 growing under 24 different lights - so I have a pretty good idea from experience what will work. Hope this helps!

FWIW, if ceiling fans are fairly typical in bedrooms in your area (especially if you don't have central AC), you can get a simple ceiling fan with light kit for well under $50. Check out lowes.com which is offering free shipping on anything that can be shipped by ordinary means (meaning not by freight truck) on all orders over $49. They also have quite a few nice and inexpensive simple light fixtures - flushmounts and semi-flushmounts - so it's worth a look on that site. I was very pleased with the fixtures I got there; we sold our previous house last year and had to replace virtually every light fixture in the place, since most of it was tacky worst-of-the-80s fake brass with the finish peeling off. I think the only ones we didn't replace were in the garage and cellar! I also hit the clearance section at bellacor.com and got some very good deals on light fixtures there. There's one thing you have to pay attention to in their clearance department, though: up by the first "add to cart" button it will say something like "5 available to ship within 2 business days", but those are NOT the ones on clearance. Look further down the page, to the left of the SECOND "add to cart" button, and it will tell you how many are available at the clearance price. Usually it's only one or two per style because clearance items are typically customer returns (they're checked over to make sure all the parts are there though).

Here is the pendant so you can see without clicking on the link. . The size is 12" in diameter, 16.5" high; and has a 6' chain. The flushmount for the hall is 9" in diameter and 12" high.

have been thinking about that. How does one go about picking the RIGHT one. what if I hire someone and I hate their ideas or we just don't seem to be on the same page?