Preserving furnishing placement during/after relocation?

[Avenger]

No, the relocation feature always stuffs everything in storage. It's why you have to have a maximum of 400 inside, 40 outside items between storage and placed furniture before you can relocate. The person may have had private rooms transferring over in mind. Those transfer completely untouched. There's some necessity for the outside since plot layouts can differ and to a lesser extent the distinct district features (pillars/stairs/etc) for the inside.

Yeah it wouldn't even let us move until we cleared out storage, which was very full. That was also a pain since it required hundreds of empty inventory/retainer slots.

Private rooms transferred just fine, but sadly all the furnishings got dumped into storage. The internal layout seemed identical, so it's surprising that the furnishing placement can't be preserved. Even a close approximation would be easier than having to replace every item individually. Hopefully something like that can be added in the future.