Room Recommendations
KeithH
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in The Commons
Been browsing the Daz Shop and it is overwhelming.
Looking for a place to host group therapy for me characters. Maybe a school gym or public building. Will have 7 main characters. Room to move around when not sitting in the group circle. Room off to the side for abathroom or something. Room for other characters to come and go over time. Space for a table with drinks and snacks.
Recommendations would be great.

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Here's two free ones to start you off:
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/contemporary-loft/77790
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/contemporary-room/77686
https://www.daz3d.com/west-park-nursery-clinical
along with this base product: https://www.daz3d.com/west-park-day-room
For you right now anything free is best, until you decide if you want to stay with this hobby. But if you feel the need to spend money on something better, this may be an option: https://www.daz3d.com/workout-facility as you can clear out the gym equipment and throw in some chairs, etc.
Places you can look for freebies (and some of them are very good quality) are: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/freebies and https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/296176/general-freebie-requests-part-3/p1
as well as: www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/ which has a good search engine.
(And once you have your fill of free stuff, I recommend joining Daz3D's Platinum Club https://www.daz3d.com/platinum-club-plus to save a LOT of money)
EDIT: You mentioned wanting to add seven characters, which is a lot unless you have a reasonably powerful computer, so if you get stuck with that come back and ask for ways to fix that too, as there are ways of adding small to large groups of people.
There's a gym here: https://www.daz3d.com/gymnasium
It's quite an old model, so if you want to render it in Iray, you'll have to do a bit of work on the surfaces first.
Alternatively, it doesn't have a gym, but if you're doing a story based in and around a school or similar, consider https://www.daz3d.com/fg-university
The Briefing Room Bundle - https://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/16659
Includes poses for the characters (V4/M4 & Genesis 1, but here's a free tool for easy conversion to Genesis 2, 3, 8 - https://www.sharecg.com/v/89846/browse/8/Script/Daz3d-Pose-Converter-Standalone ).
It consists of 100% separate props incl. walls so everything can be hidden/moved/deleted and room can be sized to whatever you want, you can have a door in every wall if you want, etc.. No windows though other than the skylights.
It's 3DL, but I did a quick test using the Iray Uber shader and a couple of poorly configured spot lights and I think it looks pretty decent.
Maybe this could be adapted, one main room and enclosing corridor? Big City Drama