I have no idea what Kareo is, but these rooms look good. Your modelling is
high quality. I like the details. The light is also relative convincing.
Somehow, these scenes always end up looking "rendered" anyway, but maybe
photo-realism is not what you're trying to achieve. Well, in case it is -
and since we are at a forum for raytracing - I'll offer some suggestions:

I think your images would be more appealing with better anti-aliasing (or
try focal blur). It will increase the render time, but there is no way to
avoid that, if you want to have the beauty of reality. The settings for
anti-alias can be put in the "command-line bar" (right next to the
resolution menu) and I would give it a real kick upwards, like this:  +AM2
+A0.0 +R2 -J

The area_lights, comes next. You can, of course, stick to a minimum of
samples, especially for the sun, since the sun produces many sharp shadows.
Nevertheless, reality often looks "softer" than raytracing. I would give it
3 times as many samples, as you have in the image "duravit07-0" and add
jittering.

I can see that you're already using radiosity. That's important.. And I
don't have further suggestions for now. There are room for some blurred
reflections, photons, and fine-tuning of textures (especially the sink, in
the "DEMO4-3" image). But you're definitely on your way already. I've seen
images that was a lot worse!

Regards,
Hugo

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