While diving, you find a piece of mahogany! It has delicate craftsmanship, and seems hand made. Curious, you take this strange item to the gnome sitting in the rail station. He tells you that you just found a fragment of ancient gnome furniture! He tells you that in order to rebuild the furniture, he'll need a blueprint and some steel nails.
So here's my idea.
When diving, you will have a chance to find "furniture fragments", which would include: Oak Plank (somewhat common), Steel Nails (common), Mahogany Board (rare), Gold Inlay (very rare), Gnome Blueprint 1 (rare), Gnome Blueprint 2 (rare), Gnome Blueprint 3 (rare), Gnome Blueprint 4 (rare), Gnome Blueprint 5 (rare).
In order to build furniture, you would need to have a blueprint to follow. Upon finding a blueprint, using it will yield an image of the desired item and a list of materials needed. You can also find furniture fragments, which would have to be given to the gnome in order to make the item. Kind of like crafting, except utilizing loot.
Personally, I think this would be very cool, but somewhat difficult to make.
Thoughts?