This an interior rendering I produced using Sketchup Pro and Enscape. Newer to Enscape, I primarily focused on texture, color, tone, lighting. This is a real project I am currently designing for a client in Baja California. Hopefully it will be built in the next few years.
Would love to hear about more go-to’s for pendant lights, ambient and linear lights in model, instead of inserting point lights incrementally throughout the model. As well as go-to ambient and exposure settings. I had a hard time toggling them in coordination with shade/sun time of day in Sketchup. The modeling was very picky and did not always render consistently with a saved, applied setting.
-Anna, Owner Summit Architect + Design
The overall composition looks pretty good, there’s still is room for improvement though.
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The textures are mostly low res and not quite there yet in terms of orientation (underside wood beams) or placement (floor tiles). I’d suggest looking into some higher quality textures (texturehaven or cc0).
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Your materials are not set up in terms of bump and reflection. The above mentioned pages also provide bump and reflection maps which will definitely up the realism on that front. Also feel free to just experiment and fiddle around with the material properties. There’s a great Enscape tutorial playlist from Architecture Inspiration that covers most of the basics.
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For lights I’d generally recommend trying to prepare your own little library of premade lighting fixtures, this will definitely speed up your modelling process if you’re using the same components over and over again. Your scene looks very evenly lit, too much so. Try to dial back that filling lighting, experiment with the exposure, the different Enscape light sources and maybe even IES profiles. For interior shots experimenting with the sun placement can also greatly affect the mood. Just see what adjustments to the sun position, the overall exposure and some other small tweaks can do to a rather simple scene.
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A lot of the know how comes with time and experience, just take yourself some moments, test around and just have fun. 
