On the 3rd Render, the tiles have a two tone color but they
need to be brought closer together so they wont look so spotty.
Edges need to be beveled.

icedkasz,
Yes, was thinking of beveling the edges some but wanted
to try seeing if it is needed at a higher distance.

honoluludesktop,
Ive never worked with tile before but did have some
guy do that inside the house.

I added another render but the model i borrowed from the
Luxrender forum. The tile is from SketchUp. Hoping im not
thrown in to jail for this.

Here are Ceramic Tiles that were made with SketchUp.
Rendered with Blender Cycles.
Texture is a Cycles Procedural Texture.
Depth of Grout grove is 1/8 inch and looks to deep.
Have been messing around with Interiors.

Looks Great, I mean very Great or very very Great.
Terrorists will be happy to study this model.
Looks like another attack site.

I dont know, maybe it has to do with this Psycho thing.

Nail from Google Warehouse.
Rendered with Cycles.

Was curious to see if there was caustics on the
shadow side, so i moved the light to the side
and found some behind the apple and on the base
of the metal.

Here is one with an early morning sun Hdri and maybe also a bad
choice if more color are wanted to be seen.

Pete,

I think they used to say path traced renderers were biased
but now days it seems they are a little of both, I dont know your asking a dummy.
I found this about Cycles:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Render

Here's another render.
Ive been trying to get some caustics to show and
i changed the velvet material to a glossy material.
I also increased my bounce settings and changed the hdri's coordinates.

Ive been using and hdri that has an interior image but was thinking
maybe if i changed it to an hdri that has and exterior image.
I think interior lights dont have all the colors.

~GoldenFrog~,
Have you tried using that sample files
from this thread:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?216113-Brecht-s-easter-egg-surprise-Modernizing-shading-and-rendering&s=6fd821a756d11ff7c1daa0e3a2f3c092

You might also ask want to ask them for help.

A Cycles render of warehouse models.
Half hour render with an aged laptop.

Yes, Cycles does a great job and we can
compete with the best.

Here's a render made with the Cycles Engine.
Cooked for 11 minutes.
Diamonds from the Google Warehouse.

Yes, its nice render engine, very fast and good quality renderer.

Im using the new versions.
Render speeds have been cut in half and is now faster
with the newer builds.

Im now using this one here:
http://graphicall.org/133

Cooking allot of trees. The trees are from ngPlant.
For now it just 52 render passes.

Pilou,
Its a Path Traced render. Rendered at 300+ passes or cycles and
took about 1/2 hour on my old single core Laptop.

Below is another render with 1000 passes and took 1hr 19mins.

Materials are created with nodes.

Engine is Windows32 and came out yesterday from
http://www.graphicall.org

Here a try at the New Blenders Cycle Renderer.

Have been editing the image below with different materials.
Models out of scale.

Trees from ngPlant.
Need to work on something else.
Maybe, with something that has windows.

Here's the settings for the stuccos.
Maybe a texture can be baked for Sketch Up Models, I dont
know i havnt tried it.

Nice surface on that last exterior wall.
Your creative, You can render more than i can.