Thanks for the advice all.
LED lighting has come a long way, in the next few years all your fixtures using CFLs will be replaced by LEDs. The price point has come down and the value of a LED light is phenomenal compared to anything else. These things are currently rated to last 22 years and cost about $1 to run for a year for a 60W equivalent.
At first I was going to just get a couple of reds and a blue LED and rig up a simple fixture but then I've learned that affordably priced bulbs are in the hardware stores so that's why I'm on this LED bulb kick.
Got all these ideas about redoing the lighting in my home and maybe getting some more plants in and situate my setting so that the typical rooms light's supplement the houseplants as well as provide general light for living.
This bit about my ferns is perhaps just the starting point since ferns don't need so much light it's not too much of a risk.
