Hi there,
this picture was a part of my school project. My goal was recreate a photo from the book The well-worn interiour in 3D as good as I could. During the modelling I focused on each detail and almost all the objects where made of cube. I was texturing all objects by using Photoshop and simple technique as an overlapping layers and erasing. For lighting I set up very simple strategy. After studying picture closer I divided it in two halves more or less in the middle of the scene. And on the right hand side I set two directional lights with same intensity in different directions.

Martin