Some of what you list sounds good - at least, the key words trigger good associations and ideas in my mind - even though you might not aprove of them. So you should indeed go into detail. What kind of decoration? What kind of furniture? Here are some of my ideas:
- A vase as container for furniture, draggable, to place it upon a table
- A stove/oven
- A wooden thingy to place platemails and helmets on, like a dummy
- Spanish walls to seperate a part of the house - that is, a wooden construction with cloth in it
For the outside, all that comes to my mind would be a gate matching stone/wooden fence, not the bulky fort gate.
I know some of it has already been proposed, so don't beat me up.