How do we divide the furniture and everything else?
Almost always by agreement, because the cost of fighting over household goods exceeds what they are worth. Courts will divide personal property if forced to, and they do it bluntly, because a judge has no way to know which lamp mattered.
Which means the leverage here is not legal. It is doing the boring work early, while you are both still reasonable.
Make the list before you need it
Photograph everything, room by room, including inside cupboards and the garage. It takes twenty minutes and it settles arguments later about what existed and what condition it was in.
Write an inventory of anything of real value or real meaning. Not every fork. Furniture, appliances, tools, electronics, art, jewelry, instruments, collections.
Note anything separate. Items you owned before the marriage, inherited, or were given individually are often treated differently, and the burden usually falls on the person claiming it to show it.
A method that actually works
Pick the few things you genuinely care about, name them, and let the rest go by a simple rule. The common ones:
Alternate picks from the inventory until it is done. Simple, fast, and feels fair because it is.
One divides, the other chooses between two lists. The oldest fair-division method there is, and it works because the person splitting has every incentive to split evenly.
Assign values and balance the total, which suits higher-value property but invites arguments about what things are worth. Note that used household goods are generally valued at what they would fetch secondhand, not what you paid, which is often a fraction of what people expect.
Put the specific items in the decree
This is the part people skip, and it is the whole reason to bother.
"Personal property to be divided amicably" is unenforceable as written. If your ex keeps the dining table anyway, there is nothing specific for a court to act on, and your only route is to go back and ask a judge to supply the detail before anything can be enforced. That is slow, and it does not stay available: states put a deadline on enforcing a property division, two years from the decree in Texas, so if a decree is already being ignored, start rather than keep negotiating. Name the items you care about, and set a date and place for the handover. Which decree provisions are actually enforceable covers the wording that holds up.
Include a clean-up clause too: anything not collected by a stated date becomes the other person's to keep or dispose of. Otherwise a garage full of boxes becomes a dispute that outlives the divorce.
Pets
Traditionally pets are property, and traditionally that is how they get divided. That is starting to change, slowly: eight states and the District of Columbia now direct courts to weigh the animal's wellbeing. Most of them also allow joint or shared arrangements, though Maine, which considers wellbeing, requires the court to award the animal to one party only. Everywhere else, and as the underlying classification even in those states, a pet is still personal property. Recent bills elsewhere have failed or stalled, so do not count on your state joining the list. Who gets the pet, and what actually decides it, has its own page.
Do not rely on it. If the animal matters to you, get the arrangement written into the agreement specifically, including who pays veterinary costs. An agreed provision works regardless of what your state's default rule is.
What not to do
Do not empty the house before an agreement. It looks exactly like what it looks like, and it converts a straightforward division into an argument about your conduct.
Do not take things that are clearly theirs as leverage. It never produces the result people hope for and it costs credibility on everything else.
How personal property is characterized and divided varies by state, as does whether courts may consider a pet's wellbeing rather than treating it purely as property. Confirm what applies where you live before assuming either.