It's really an orange gradient because the guy is stuck on orange. It's people's least favorite color in surveys, but the dude's walls are orange. Here's the current website, which I also did before he decided he wanted to go whole-hog marketing. Check the walls:
http://makimanonline.com/
The walls form their own orange gradient with the lighting, so that's what I went with this time.
Guy has not called back! WTF!