er..
or you can always do something like that:
a. cover the entire house with events (yeah...)
b. each event will ask the player something like:
"would you like to put an item here?"
options:yes,no
if yes
-would you like to put a chair?
choices yesno
and so on
now, if he puts a chair (which you will condition in item chair is in the inventory) then do swtich chair(xy)=0n (don't forget to name the switches so that every tile will have it's unique switch say chair1020 (x=10 y =20) or chair 31 (x=3, y=1)
then make that sort of stuff for every item you want to use in the house
as for tilesets, right and left click on the background of the tileset, it simply asks you what color you don't want to see