Simple stairs in wooden house

Hello,
I share with you this render of simple interior scene. I would like to have some feedback from new eyes. In particular the lighting and the materials.


Last version (27/04/2017) :

Add some furniture and test Filmic.



Original post :
I use only an HDRI for lighting and it’s a pure render, no compositing.

Some details :
-Resolution : 1440 x 1800 px
-2000 Samples
-Render time : 1h11 with GTX 860M and Cycles

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.


The stairs are very neat but…
you should turn the glossiness down a bit, it looks like it’s made of ice
You should add a bump map, generating it for wood is very easy
There isn’t really much going on, there are too much unused place on the picture
Some skirting for the brick wall would be nice to see
Put something on the wall

Thanks for your reply.
My purpose was to reproduce this interior scene from a book of architecture :


That is why I have no furniture, but I can add it later.
It’s true, the wood is too glossy.

Hey, nice work. I like it a lot, even thou it’s not that creative work. I would also take a second look over the shadows. That shadow beneath the stairs it’s not that great.

Make the concrete wall also more soft, you wouldn’t want your kids to be to close to your wall because they could get scratches very easy :).

Also increase the bump on the wood on top.

Keep the white balance as it is, I personally like it more in your render than in the magazine.

Here is an update for this project.

I made some changes following the feedback I’ve had.
I modified the sky in the background, the material of the floor and the stairs and added some objects, while keeping the sobriety of the reference.

The plume picture is not mine. I used a paint from Leïla Thébault.

I will modify the lighting and add some details later.


Have a nice day.

New update.
I used filmic from Troy James Sobotka (https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender) after watching this Andrew Price’s video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AT7H4GGrA.

It offers an easier way to manage the lighting in my opinion.