OK, Shadow, in the second render there is more mood set to the image perhaps you should enclose the inside (the room side) of the window as not to allow any external light in except for the candles and perhaps some fill light so that it appears that most of the light is coming from the candles from the inside of the room. You can then try playing with some volume lighting to give the effect of the sunlight beaming and straying into the darkened room. Great scene!