Oh yes, the office color scheme is HORRID. The cubes are 'greige', with medium gray trim. The doors and wall trim are a dull shade of what might have been Prussian Blue before it had its soul removed. The carpets are a 'dirt hiding' blend of browns, grays, and beige. Really quite awful.

Back last summer I started holding a bi-weekly project status meeting -- the number of attendees was too large to fit in 'our' cramped, windowless conference room. So, I moved it into the big confernece room that we share with another department. Perhaps it's the shared aspect, but neither department had ever used the room much in the four years we've been in the building. But the thing is, the room is big and one whole wall is window. It looks over Market St.; a view to the West, so for most of the day it's suffused with this wonderful indirect light.

Since I've been dragging people into the room every other week for the past eight months, it seems to have caught on. I see more and more people using the room now. I guess it took a 'basement dweller' to seek the light. :-)