Are you using Vue4? I used to get these horrendous render times with 3.1. I used to render over the course of a week, rendering at night. I stopped the render with ESC every morning, saved the render so far and the vue file (that is important, it only restarts the render from where it left off if you save the file again, as well as the render image). But with Vue4 things are much better. Several things may be contributing though. Do you have the quality set on 'ultra'. If so, try 'broadcast'. You will not see any difference in quality but it will speed the render no end. 'Final' will speed it even more, but I think there is a noticeable difference between 'final' and 'broadcast'. You said that the furniture was too shiny. That too may be contributing. Reflective shiny material takes longer to render. I did an ice cave in Vue3.1 which was all shiny and semi transparent material. It took 42 hours to do a 640x480 render at 'broadcast'. The longest render I have done in Vue4 is my ghost ship, which took 18 hours. Again, the material over the vessel, which is complex and takes a while to antialias anyway, was shiny and transparent. The render proceeded quite quickly till the antialiasing got to 59% and between there and 80% was antialiasing the ship. That was where most of the 18 hours for the total render was used up. If there is anything you can do to reduce reflective materials, especially over complex objects, it can make quite a difference to render times.