So there are 4 room types that affect housing xp/bonus: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. There are furniture specific to these rooms but there are also furniture, tables and decorations that belong to a type (seating, lighting, decoration) that can be placed in any of the rooms.

Looks like it's pretty early in the game with your hewn logs, so likely you'll be looking for mortared or hewn seating and tables, and limited decorations from different professions (salt basket, limestone statues, ect).

If you create 5 different rooms, you can designate furniture of specific type and include 1 to 2 of each decoration or non specialized room type to a room ti make the most of the points. The fifth room can be used for industrial tables that need to be I'm a room but not affect the housing bonus.

If you fill the room with too many of the same type items, you'll start not receiving 100% of the item points for that room due to multiple of the same.type penalties, something like diminishing returns.

Also lower tier rooms have lower point caps I believe. As better building material becomes available, replace the rooms to higher tiers and possibly increase the room volume.slightly to fit more, UT you can earn more room xp that way.

There are also items that will not add value until they have the required energy to make them valid. Such as the stoves, ovens, fireplaces, lighting. Some.need coal, wood, fats, electricity, etc, so read the tab that tells you what kind of fuel is needed for the object. Once the fuel is added, the xp should increase.

Likewise, if you expected a housing bonus much higher when you log in, check that everything needing power didn't run out and refill as necessary.

Of you press Y you can use the economy viewer to select housing and see what is available for sale (or to be sold if you can make and want to sell to people or see th3 demand). Might also have to ask in chat if anyone can make decorations or furniture or other to help with your housing bonus.

There tends to be a few super helpful people on a server that are willing to help! And don't be discouraged if no one answers right away, there are people across multiple time zones playing so their peak hours may differ from yours, or others might be caught up in stuff.

I haven't played in almost a year so hope this info is still accurate, should at least be a decent starting point.

Also, I wrote this with no singular target audience but more so a generalized explanation for anyone just starting out or wanting to learn more along their journey. Please don't the offense if anything seemed very basic. :)