Idiots guide to grow lights

Mine was a bit like that!1 It was in another place where everyone was going on about lumens, outputs and colours and all sorts of techy stuff and building massive things that would illuminate B|ackpool so I cobbled mine together with bits and pieces I could find in the house.
There is another Light thingy here made from a wooden tea trolley with LED striplights glued under the shelves. That works too but I just bung pots on the windowsills and let them fend for themselves now.

It is/was my fear that I would go the same route as you, so didn't want to spend huge sums.  I tend to get all enthusiastic but can lose interest.   If I don't stick with chillies or very early tomatoes then I won't have wasted loads of dosh.  The pink lighting makes the spare junk room (my escape space) look very seductive or perhaps reminiscent of a fortune teller's tent.