Preserving furnishing placement during/after relocation?

[Avenger]

So a helpful and very convincing person on Novice Network claimed/confirmed that if you relocate to the same house/plot size, then the furnishing placement is preserved, so you don't have to redecorate the interior. This is exactly what I would want to happen.

Unfortunately when our FC relocated from a large plot to another large plot, all of our furnishings – interior and exterior – were placed into storage, so we had to painstakingly take every item out of storage and replace it in its original location. This has taken several of us several hours so far, as we originally had something like 40 outside items and 350 inside furnishings placed, and we're still not done. (Fortunately we took screenshots and a video of the old interior before moving – otherwise it would have been even harder!) The house itself, and some fixtures such as chandeliers and floors remained intact, but having to individually restore the placement for each furnishing item has been a complete pain.

Is there actually a way to relocate without having all of your furnishing items put into storage? Novice Network seemed to think so, but all the documentation I found online said that your stuff just gets dumped into storage.