Feature Wall? Well that certainly makes more sense than 'Beauty Wall'! ;-) I will start using that!!
Bullet, yes Maya uses units. I will say what I do is when I have my scene ready from Maya, I take it to Max and make a cube the dimensions of what I want (ie: 20ft by 20ft by 10 ft). With Max I use feet and inches when you create something I know that it is to World Scale. And I scale my model, or scene, to fit inside the box. Then I take it back into Maya and it will be the right size.
I have already found an area I need to correct in my scene. The hallway was too wide and have corrected that.
Bullet, thank you for looking at and following my project!!
Challenge me and I will try. Because If I should fail, failure also has a prize (Knowledge).