No, the gifted furniture just disappears. The devs intend for us to be able to enter the critter houses in the future though, so I'm not sure how gifting stuff will work then. If the gifted items will appear in the house or just disappear like now and we'll instead be able to just decorate the house directly like our own. Time will tell. :)
I'm looking forward to decorating the town.
I might enjoy a few sessions of that too eventually when I have a bit more options to play around with. :D
What if you were to give Nigel a Wardrobe? Would you be able to use it too?
No, the gifted furniture just disappears. The devs intend for us to be able to enter the critter houses in the future though, so I'm not sure how gifting stuff will work then. If the gifted items will appear in the house or just disappear like now and we'll instead be able to just decorate the house directly like our own. Time will tell. :)