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For interiors, you will primarily want shift, and only occasionally will tilt be useful. For shift only, your focus issues are much simpler, and the optical view finder will be fine for framing. For focus, remember that even though you will not have autofocus with a TS-E, the lens will activate the focus indication spot or spots with the red rectangle when they are in focus. Just be sure to stay in one shot mode, and manually move slowly through the focus point to see the rectangle light up.
The Canon TS-E lenses have a nice long throw manual focus scale, so estimating focus distance by eye can also be very effective, and you may even want to do focus with a tape measure and a depth of field table if the scene is tricky, or if you are not good at estimating distance. And the TS-E lenses have a very usable set of built in depth of field marks, so you really do not even need to consult a depth of field table or depth of field app.
The angle finder suggested in a previous post is also a great idea, and besides using it for framing, its magnification is very helpful for doing manual focus through the viewfinder.
A live view full frame camera like a 6D or a 5D2 or a 5D3 can be a future goal, and it does simplify the use of a TS-E lens. But just like others in posts above, I used two different TS-E lenses with my 5D for many years, and made some nice photographs with the combination.
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