Players would be much more incentivized to buy homes, even just for storage, if we have furniture that could hold a number of items. I can already see some prominent merchants using their properties as impromptu warehouses.
This also makes it less awkward for merchants who are perma-encumbered because they don't happen to belong to a single prominent faction/absurd amount of strength to lug their goods around.
Crates, chests, barrels?
Please consider these!