Okay, lets start of. You use Vray right? or mental ray? well, anyway hehe, The base model looks good. I like the overall details aswell and the scale is good aswell.
To give your renders more realism you can go and look for several things to work on.

-Detail in your model- Remember, this is painstaking and timetaking, but the more detail you add in your model, the more realistic it CAN get. To much detail or attention to things can make it go vice versa aswell. Find a sort of balance between them.

-Texturing your model- Take your time to look for reference pictures from real housing and textures. Texturing is a great and very important factor for your final render since it really attracts your eye or not...do the textures match...or do they make things bleed and unreal, or are they to simple. Try different combinations of textures, and take your time to perfect them once you found a couple of good ones.

-Rendering out- Rendering your model is and can be mostly complicated at some times. It can also greatly improve or disprove your realism factor. Things like camera positions, lightnings, vignetting and a surrounding area. Maybe try and build a simple city scene, and imply this house right into it. It will really drive attention to it. But remember, Don't overdo things if you don't have to. If the someone you need to make this house for asks it to be clear and simple, do so. give him all the options you are capable of giving him for such a project.

-Finalizing- Maybe post process your picture abit in Photoshop, try to remove wrong angles or to bright colours. A sky background does great in architectual visualisations, but try to go for soft gradient ones that don't want to much attention when you want to show the house. If it's a nice slight and dimmy gradient it will be like the butter on your bread.

Keep it up!

Johnbeyer

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woot thx mate.. i'll try..

as of now I have made a new one before I read ur crit...
hope the second pic is good camera angle...

i use 2 lights here.. Direct light for sun and 1 vraylight to illuminate the opposite part where no light at all..

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that's pretty sweet model, i like the design. As John mentioned, details is everything, even the things you probably wont pay any attention to contribute to the final image greatly.
One suggestion, that roof looks like it's hanging out to much to stand by it's own, so maybe some collars ( i think that's the word ) and beams.
Also don't forget to model a bit from the inside, just the parts that you will see from the windows when you set up you camera, some basic furniture and that sort of stuff, nothing in great detail, that will contribute a lot to the final image.

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The model and lighting are looking great jovanie. The texture on the pillars on the house corners doesn't look quite right though. It's more an aesthetic thing really, I just don't think it looks that great. Maybe a larger brick texture would look better?

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thx thx very much.. i was waiting for someone who could tell me that.. coz i was just contented of everything out there ..
neway the coulombs are kinda granite texture when some uvw mapping ..

i'll try it asap

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You know how to improve and how to get along with people's hints and tips so I say you did a very good job It's good to see people enjoy their projects. the more you work on one, the more it will get how you wanted it to be. it takes time, of course. but in the end, it pays of.

The first new render you did was very nice. All i would like to see in that one is a nice blue sky! the camera postion is pretty cool and good.

Keep it up mate!

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thx mate... I wouldn't have done this and made this small improvement without the ppl around me here and patiently answering my questions.. and the ppl I was referring you guys here...

well, your right mate I really enjoy this first project I made.. It feels overwhelming to see that what I was dreaming to make long time ago.. erhmm.. can't believe I can't it little by little..

I got a motto in myself that I can't afford to forget every time i'm in questionable situation..
"Smart People Ask For Help"

neway.. I should have a final scene now but I can't render it, it eats all my RAM (only have 2gb).. and i'm trying to figure out how to render it without crashing... already crash 5 times bcoz of virtual memory low.. already minimize the poly counts and the texture still can't figure out how to deal with it at the moment mate... tsk tsk tsk...

Well, imma take all the risk how to figure it out..

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2 gig is a fair bit of RAM. What's in your scene that's killing it?

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I guess the tree's do kill it.. and the bump and vraydisplacement.. maybe i pump it too high

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woot nice Myst mate..

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Do you use both a bumpmap and a vray displacement map on one material ? that could cause it aswell Try using one of them , not both.

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yes i did mate.. already removed one of them... I'm still trying to figure out whats wrong... later Imma post the file here so that If I can't find it myself that time i will need the help.. at the moment i will try to figure it out myself

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I think it's the final image..
sorry for the poor background.. having a hard time rendering it and having a lot of crash...

------------------------ darn can't upload PNG file ..

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The first image looks great. Those columns look a lot better and the lighting is excellent. The night time images aren't quite right, I think there's too much ambient light. There needs to be a bit more contrast between the lit and unlit areas. If you really want to push the reaslism you'll want to dirty it up as well.

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update update ;;

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That is a very nice piece of work Jov, you really are showing improvement.

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This looks very nice, Jovanie. You improved it well overall, so kudos for that ,nice job.

I would look at the last picture though, It looks like the house is on a hill, if so, it's correct, but the horizon lines aren't correct for what i see with the background

Furthermore, Nice job.

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The last picture was horrible.. sorry for that mate...

I'll fix it asap

thx for dropping by...

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Looking even better, but agree that the last background doesn't look all that great. My only other suggestion would be to change the material on the lights on the gates, they wouldn't be on on a nice bright day like that, so I'd get rid of the self illumination.

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I love the realistic lighitng, keep it up mate!!

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thx mate...

thx for droppin by...

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looking great, good job, only two things worth commenting, the wooden fence looks a bit to tall, maybe shorten it a bit, and in the first render, there's way to much shadows from the trees, it confuses the whole scene because one can't really see the details because of it, they mix with gray texture and add a bit to much chaos.
anyhow that's great work, and huge improvement, congratulations man.

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erhm.. mate.. the new image has the new fence...

the metal one...

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yeah sorry, i meant that, metal one.

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erhmm.. it's due to the owner's request... to have a least 2.25meters fence..

neway Imma revised the house tonight for the final output.. The owner and I meet this morning and he point out that he does like the design of house just a few modification an he said were done

after this I offered the owner if I could make an interior for them... he yes...
even thought this is voluntarily work.. He ask me how much would he pay me.. I just told him a big thanks would do.. ehiaheaie

damn this... I LOVE this work....

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I agree that the fence seems kinda tall it really looks strange like their wanting mansion gates to a house that really doesn't have that large of a yard. But if it owners request whatchia gonna do looks great mate.

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erhm.. thx.. im gonna revised it a bit due to owner's request..

the fence is just quite fair enough for the owner... but I do agree that it's tall..
coz it's for safety purpose... he says theirs a lot of bad people around the place

the taller the better but with style

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Just want to share the latest revised update for the house..

Day Scene:

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Night Scene:

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C & C is always welcome and FREE... Hope you guys like it...

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