Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!

RanXie-Kitchen
Hey Ran -
Please post all your versions as 2 images, one with the GI and one without.
The background shows a very clear sun direction. You’ve got the main idea with your sunbeam, but I think it could be coming from lower down, so it goes even more to the right, and it could be brighter.
Your background image also has a blue fill light from the sky that you can see everywhere that the sunlight doesn’t hit. I don’t see enough of that in the kitchen lighting. Maybe you have some blue fill, but it’s getting blacked out by occlusion in the corners, but either way we should see that blue fill.
Overall it looks like there’s too much occlusion darkening things, and also some light leaking into some of the cabinet doors. See if you can use less occlusion, and find another way to fix the cabinet door problem.
-jeremy
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