use the whitest light that you can find easily. (Halogen) This should help.
Kevin,
Actually halogen lamps are very orange ( most around 3200 kelvin). Daylight is actually blue (about 5,000 kelvin), most flashbulbs are daylight balanced.
Jetmaven,
The other Kevin is mostly correct though, the "gold" reflections you are seeing are more than likely caused by the metalcote reflecting the household lights which are tungsten (orange), most of the foreground in the picture is iluminated by the flashbulb on the camera which is more blue.
Video cameras (and digital still cameras) have to be "white balanced", which simply stated is an adjustment so that the camera corrects the color of the light to show as "white" (or no color at all). Most digital still cameras do this automatically, but some can be set to manual white balance.
If you were to set one of these cameras to manual, do the color balance in daylight, then move indoors (without changing the white balnce) and take all of your pictures under tungsten lighting they will all come out looking very orange. Vice-versa if you were to color balnce indoors under tungsten and then shoot pictures outdoors, all of your shots will be very blue.
The automatic white balance systems work quite well on these cameras most of the time, but as you noticed they cannot compensate when there are two light sources that are widely seperated in the color spectrum.
This is also a problem with film cameras, except instead of white balancing you simply choose film that is balanced for daylight or tungsten. The problem of different colored light sources still exists though.
In the motion picture business (in which I worked for over 16 years) we spend a lot of money and time to make sure that all of the lights that are illuminating a shot are all the correct color.
I can suggest some movies to rent if you would like to see some examples of poor color correction. Although, none that I have worked on of course.