Hi guys, I'm a beginner here, I'm just a hobbyist and casual Blender user, but I got hooked recently with this contest, and so this is my entry.
This is Actually my first "Artistic Architectural Rendering" and the second overall, I only did one before so a friend of mine can visualize how a new wall paint will affect his room (it was not pretty and I didn't even know that this was called "Architectural Rendering" back then.)
This is also my second render with Cycles, so I'm still at experimenting stage, and also, this is by far the biggest Blender project I've worked on so far. It took me about 16 hours to setup this scene (and I didn't even counted in the time I spent watching tutorials). A friend rendered this scene for me, because I'm working on a 7+ years old machine (and it wasn't even considered as a fancy one back then) so thanks to him.
This is not close enough to what I was going for but I'll try to improve on it when I have a bit more knowledge in the future. If you guys have any comments, I'll accept any constructive critique ;)