Minecrafters since alpha have been figuring out ways for chairs, tables, shelves, and more. The problem is they know its not legit. We can't really get the taste of what its like to design a real minecraft house. They said on upcoming that they needed at least 9 new crafting recipes, well this could fill the space. Also this could flesh out 1.8 with building a detailed base or be generated in NPC villages. Here is the mod for this: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/93164-fancypack-30-thread-outmoded/
I don't think Minecraft is ever going to have an actual crafting recipe for furniture, but rather where Notch puts in purposeful block arrangements (like a pressure plate on a fence, purposely added for tables in 1.8) that Minecrafters can fingure out on their on.
Indeed. Although I've seen this before,
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