Once again, lovely work Lynn22. The final render is a lovely illustration, I particularly like the effect of the curtains in the window and the absolutely gorgeous front door. The only thing I can pick on is the depth of the shadows. From the angle of the light it is probably either Summer: mid morning or mid afternoon, or Winter: closer to noon. Either way, it is clearly a sunny day. This does mean distinct shadows (your shadow softness is excellent by the way) but I think your shadows are a bit too dark, especially on the shadowed wall of the house at right of image and the shadow of the foreground plant. On sunny days there is always a lot of secondary reflected light bouncing around in all directions, in this case from the distant hills and clouds as well as the grass and trees near the house. This means that the only truly black parts of the image should be those areas where very little light can get to, such as deep inside the foliage of the tree at left (looks great as it is). Perhaps doing an ambient occlusion render, like in your (awesome) courtyard image and overlaying it with this image would do the trick. Alternatively, perhaps a dim spotlight at right, gently illuminating the dark side of the house with a slightly yellow/green tinged light might be effective. As always though, really lovely work.
