AJLynn

When you use GI+FG you don't need your settings for either to be so high. And the exterior looks sunny because those are the sun/sky settings appropriate to my camera's exposure - basically I had perviously done another render in the interior where the sun/sky were at 1.0 (the outside was blown out but that was ok) and I had made the adjustments in the exposure control and interior light dimmers to get everything looking nice. Then when I wanted the section (this is design process stuff, in an architecture firm, and it was an impromptu thing) I adjusted the sun to balance it to the interior lights then made some tweaks in the exposure settings, and Photoshopped the levels to make it what I wanted. In the Photoshop file the top layer is Levels set to 5/1.2/235.

I did say it was crude...