Interior design photography tips

I'm interested in combining my background in interior design with my current interest in photography. So I've been reviewing books and magazines to figure out some of the elements of good interior photography. Here's a list of tips I've come up with. There are plenty of tips on lighting interiors out there, so I skipped that and looked at composition and viewpoint. Some of these may be obvious to experienced photographers, but as I'm not one, they're all news to me...

1. Feel free to overexpose and blow out the windows. It makes it look like a room is flooded in white.
2. Symmetrical scenes should be shot as evenly as possible
3. Shoot from the corner of a room, with the camera waist- to shoulder-height, to make the room look as large as possible
4. In general you want to shoot from the height where a seated person's head would be; from the bottom half of the available height. This makes the ceiling look heigher and the floor look longer (deeper)
5. Shoot scenes with lots of right angles with the longest possible lens to minimize distortion. If you can't get back far enough, shoot them on an angle with greater depth of field
6. Detail shots should be composed more artistically
7. Don't be afraid to show either a) the rug, or b) the ceiling light fixture (in fact, showing the ceiling fixture is better than not)
8. If showing the view outside the windows, it should either be shot with a lower depth of field so that it's out of focus, or bracketed to show it in focus and properly exposed, if it's a key element in the shot
9. Only put a person in the shot if their wardrobe is perfect and if it tells a story. This should either be an a) portrait shot, in which the person is key to the story, or b) long exposure in which the movement obscures the person's identity. In general people want to be able to imagine themselves in the shot
10. Avoid defined shadows...use fill flash
11. In a smaller space, shoot from a lower perspective
12. It's ok to cut furniture off (not show the whole thing)
13. In general, your height should be just high enough to show the depth on the back-most horizontal surface (except high bookshelves)
14. A shadow at the bottom of the frame creates depth and anchors the picture
15. Hardware and details make great artistic closeup shots. Some good possibilities for these (there are many more): door knobs, tiebacks, drawer pulls, faucets, light switches, dishes, games, textures, chair seats
16. Generally, shoot on a tripod with a high f-stop for a high depth of field (although this is a rule that was made to be carefully broken)
17. Vary the color palette, but stay in the same family of colors within the same home (paint a palette by editing)
18. When scale is interesting, try adding a person
19. Use the rule of thirds, but if you show the ceiling/floor/wall corners, consider thirds inside those lines as well
20. If you choose an extreme angle (higher/lower camera position), use a lower depth of field to accentuate this, within reason. The far walls should be in focus
21. In perspective shots, make sure there's something in the frame to define the vanishing point from both the top and the bottom (the vanishing point should be within the vertical space of the frame)

My big disappointment here is that I didn't realize these things years ago. Here are some photos of my apartments over the years...which look like snapshots, because they are. Never again!