Rendering kitchens that actually look like kitchens

Great kitchen renders are mostly about three things: lighting, materials, and camera height.

Lighting

• One soft key light from the largest window
• A warm fill bounced off the ceiling
• Subtle under-cabinet strips for depth

Materials

Keep specularity low on matte cabinetry and crank micro-roughness on stone worktops. Plastic-looking renders almost always come from one slider being too high.