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I did just as suggested above.....that is googled store interiors, hotel lobby interiors, etc. etc.  It takes some searching alright. Remember however, if you come up with snapshots with perspective such as those shown above by Tomcat13,  they will not look right glued in flat panels along the walls as MisterBeasley does with his superdetailed interiors (which he lights up).  With such perspective shots it is best to size them with Photoshop or something and then print a 1 1/2 - 2 inch strip (as tall as the store windows that is) and then slightly longer than the diagonal of your building interior and paste them in as a curved backdrop behind the front windows. Sometimes there is a little distortion of the scene if the interior strip has to be stretched in Photoshop to make a long enough curved piece for a particular building, but the curve reduces that distortion when it is inserted. I like the interiors to show just a bit this way from the front, as I do not have the interiors lighted.  It looks more realistic if one cannot see completely into the depths of a building that is not lighted.  I also am not adverse to using a black and white shot if I like the scene, as the interior of  a store is often obscure enough to make colours indistinct, and actually overly bright colours on these snapshots need to be muted to be realistic-looking behind a building window that would be heavily reflective in the real world. <IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/9.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/9.jpg"> These interiors are very quick to construct and can trick the eye very well. <IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/029.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/029.jpg">  The stair case showing in the building at the far right is just printed on a curved "interior card" as well. The old newspaper window treatment on the building in the center is something I posted about earlier.
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