Kitchen Rendering: lighting problem

[SketchyJon]

I finished this kitchen rendering and could not get the lighting the way I wanted at the bar area in the foreground. I used an emissive light source inside of the light fixture and then placed a translucent material for the lens of the fixture. The light that is reflected off the counter top onto the column is really blotchy. I can't adjust the quality of the emissive light source. Any idea on how to clean that up other then in post production?

Any other comments about the rendering are welcome.

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[Daniel]

Nice rendering/model, sketchy.
It seems, to me, that the lighting in the background is overkill, everything in the back of the kitchen is washed out.