bdfd thank you for the encouragement. As for the lights, the rooms would be really dark when I render them, as below can attest.
JUGGERNAUT thank you for the suggestions; they are all very good and I might try them out. I don't feel offended concerning your ideas as when I said dream I meant "nighttime subconscious visions" and not "fantasy". It was just a weird dream with the details being only of the upstairs bedrooms (NO BATHROOMS, YIKES!) and who was there.
As a matter of fact there was no central atrium in the dream that I recall; it was actually that I couldn't figure out what to do with that space when I was trying to figure out the bizarre layout.
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