A beautiful room, Aleks! I think everyone answered your questions quite well, but here are a couple other comments from me. I think the wood looks quite polished/varnished, but perhaps a little too much so. Adding some blur to the reflections would make those reflections more realistic (IMHO). The walls are also super-reflective, and I would lower their reflection down so it isn't so mirror-like. I'd tone down the reflections on the countertop, too. The celing is also very reflective, so it's going to pick up all the colors within the room, which are quite dark and make the ceiling appear dark. You can lower the reflections for the ceiling and, as Guitta mentioned, raise the diffuse and ambient light settings in the Effects tab. Using Boolean operations, you can create almost anything with Vue's primitives. Don't forget there is also a torus shape, and that may be a helpful place for you to start with to find the "bent cylinder". Nice work. Keep going! :)