Thank you, sjb700, for the information. I'd never heard of those terms before.
I had a thought about those very areas. What if I'd made the walls in those sections match the ceilings in those rooms?
Here's what I mean, in both the Office and Bedroom 1. Does that seem to create a bit of an illusion that there's a little more light?
As for the program that I use for rendering the pictures, it's just what's part of the program. I only have the free version, and I don't have access to any other rendering program. Also, I have a Mac that's a few years old that has only the basic memory that came with it, so I don't really have room in it to add many things; as a matter of fact, all of the houses and their pictures I can't keep on my computer, except for what I'm working on at that time.
Here, let me share the file for the house if anybody wants to make better renderings or even make any changes that they feel work better (which I am very sure of after looking at what everybody else has posted).
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