Question about Personal Rooms and another random few

[JTribal]

So, my question about personal rooms in our FC houses -

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c794de31482c6b

Per the preview, we will be able to use any furnishing available to our FC house. Does this mean it needs to be in the company chest or just placed in the house? Or can we use the furniture straight from our inventory? Also, how many people can use the same piece of furniture at once if it has to be used from the chest? (FYI - I'm not sure how the current furniture system works since I've never had a reason to use it, so please excuse my stupidity if I'm missing something)

I guess my concern is that I've come to collect a lot of somewhat rare furniture and am not really keen on having to place it in the FC chest if there is a chance that either A) someone will get to it first and put it in their room which leaves it unavailable to me or B) someone will take my furniture out of the chest and do whatever they please with it.

EDIT -
A few more questions that are valid -

I'm more curious about the GC rank requirement and what happens if you swap GCs to one you don't have Second Lieutenant rank in. Do you only have to have reached the rank on one GC or does it have to be your current one? They also still haven't clarified the details around kicking people from your FC with a room. They just stated, again, that you can't leave and FC without vacating the room first. This is a big issue that people are wondering about since FC members don't want to lose their furniture and gil due to an asshole FC leader but at the same time FC leaders don't want to be unable to remove trolls from the FC. What's the compromise going to be?

- EDIT

Also, not really a major issue but it's been bugging me for a while now.... Are we ever going to be able to have a minion summoned at the same time our Chocobo is out or while in a dungeon? It would also be nice to be able to summon a different mount even while our Chocobo is in the party. I like Chocobos as much as the next Eorzean, but staring at chocobo butt all day gets kind of old.

Like I said, these last two issues are not game breaking, but variety is always nice.

Thanks!