To start off with a positive, the visual interest is there, and while the title "Shaker Life" doesn't mean anything to me I'm sure there will be many who can derive the appropriate story-telling aspects from the image plus title.

Having looked at the download I noticed evidence of sharpening (i.e. sharpening artifacts). I get the impression that you used quite a lot of sharpening, but the trouble is it affected the noise in the original image, and despite the quantity of sharpening used, the image still has a softness to it. My guess is that you were trying to reduce that softness, and I can see why because the image as a whole would suit the starkness that sharpening would imbue it with.

If I am right so far I can tell you that you could learn a useful lesson about sharpening from this image.

Point 1) - your sharpening has aggravated the noise. This is avoidable and it doesn't necessitate using denoise to the point where the image becomes over-soft.

Point 2) - the softness that has remained after your sharpening is caused by the main edges being less well defined than they could be.

You don't say what software you have, but the answer to both of these points can be easily achieved with the right sharpening tools.

It is possible to get the sharpening tool to avoid the noise (not completely but substantially), and it is possible to get the sharpening tools to focus on the main edges within the image. In Lightroom - my main software - (and I've no doubt in many other PP suites), the Masking slider in the Details section (or a direct equivalent in other PP software) can be used to get the Sharpen tool to fulfill both of the above requirements. Moving it to the right creates a mask which is used to limit the sharpening to the main edges, and in so doing it will cause the sharpener to avoid the noise. That allows generous amounts of sharpening to be used and it's applied where the eye most readily perceives sharpness, so it achieves maximum vividness without generating unwanted side effects (most noticeable where noise and texture are concerned).

If you don't have the tools to apply sharpening in the way I've just described I can edit the posted example (or better still, the original if you care to post) by way of a demonstration. Even before you applied close scrutiny you would be able to see a difference in overall vividness and cleanness.

In addition to the above process, if there were areas that could benefit from standard sharpening (e.g. textures that needed enhancing or areas where noise wasn't a problem), it cold be applied to those areas using a brush. The combination of a masking slider plus selections made using a brush can be very effective and give optimised results relatively easily.

(Please forgive me if all of this is old hat to you. My comments are based on my assessment that the edges in your image are under-sharpened and the noise is over-sharpened).