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You should paint your paintings in the environment in which they will be displayed. Since most people do not have the natural balanced lighting systems in their living rooms, your painting will only look worse than where it was painted. Even museums do not have natural balanced lighting systems. If I paint a portrait in my studio (ambient north light and a very few supplemental regular bulb flourescents ... sometimes very low ambient light, I basically paint in the dark), it will only look better if placed in a well lit room, and never needs to have artificial lights because I painted it to look good in the corner of a dark room without supplemental lighting.
We're chasing the wrong goal trying to paint in only optimum conditions. One of the biggest problems I see in present day studios is that they have TOO MUCH LIGHT!
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