His goal wasn’t to sell a house. It was to visualise his personal viewing/understanding of appropriate lighting and materiality. The setting and context don’t lend themselves to an over-lit, westernised viewing of idealised architectural space, so I would say he’s got the level just right.
Who is to say dark spaces are of any lesser value than bright? What if the client requests that? What if the setting and context demand it? I’d suggest (and my thesis is concerned with this specifically) that we are too focussed on presenting place and space in a hyper-clinical, overly bright manner with no critical viewing of why we do so.
Food for thought!
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Just wait until you have clients! After 40 years in the field I can say there isn’t anyone that would accept that work as good that I know. Some of the scenes are pitch black, that isn’t showing anything.