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.

[Dustytome]

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.

Some of which may be due to the possible internal differences in district features. For example items clipping into the stair railing if you move to a lavender beds plots from a Mist plot. It's possible it was just to keep the programming simplified and just use the same process regardless of the size of plot you're going to/from. Whatever the reason for it is, at this point everything goes into storage.

That being said, small plots furnishings can be easily carried over to medium/large plots since the latter has way more capacity.
Not too sure about downsizing.

Pretty sure that the game just tosses everything placed into the storeroom.

The storage actually stretches to the maximum of 400 inside, 40 outside when relocating. Once the relocation has completed however you cannot add to storage until you've gone below the default threshold for your current plot size.